SAM COOKE - MY KIND OF BLUES - 1961 1ST PRESSING RCA RARE STEREO VINYL RECORD LP
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SAM COOKE
"MY KIND OF BLUES"
ORIGINAL 1961 1ST PRESSING
RARE STEREO 12" VINYL RECORD MICROGROOVE LP
RCA VICTOR RECORDS # LSP-2392
Arranged and Conducted by Sammy Lowe Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.
Personnel
- Sam Cooke – vocals
- Clifton White, Everett Barksdale – guitar
- George Duvivier, Lloyd Trotman – bass guitar
- Panama Francis – drums
- Morris Wechsler, Ernest Hayes – piano
- Toots Mondello, Reuben Phillips, Seldon Powell, Melvin Tax, Jerome Richardson – saxophone
- Ray Copeland, Steve Lipkins, Lou Oles, Joseph Wilder, John Grimes – trumpet
- Larry Altpeter, Albert Godlis, Frank Saracco, Eddie Bert – trombone
- Sammy Lowe – conductor
- Bob Simpson – recording engineer
Side 1 Don't Get Around Anymore Little Girl Blue Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Out in the Cold Again But Not For Me Exactly Like You
Side 2 I'm Just a Lucky So and So Since I Met You Baby Baby, Won't You Please Come Home Trouble in Mind You're Always On My Mind The Song Is Ended
Sam Cooke's voice is justifiably legendary, but most of his RCA albums are astonishingly little-known today. On My Kind of Blues, the singing is superb throughout. Brassy, big-scale orchestrations abound, and even the leaner textured songs, such as "Little Girl Blue" and "You're Always on My Mind," rely on a reed or horn section, respectively, to augment the electric guitar, piano, bass, and brushed drums at the core of their arrangements. This works beautifully, as on "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," which was a good enough song to make it into Sam Cooke's set at his Copa appearances. All of this is what would probably be called "smooth blues"; it's more soul of a pop variety. But Cooke's voice carries it -- and even the weakest arrangements and material get elevated, as the best of Cooke's interpretive instincts overcome the worst of his producers' instincts. My Kind of Blues' strongest moments, of which there are many, stand on their own and the leanest of the arrangements point the way toward greater things that were to come, including the best parts of Mr. Soul and the whole Night Beat album.
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