Various - Bring It on Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke (CD)

Sealed.

2014 collection. Black America has been singing Sam Cooke for more than half a century. The volume of great songs that Sam wrote in a secular career spanning barely seven years is matched by the quality of those songs - many of which are fundamental to the evolution of soul music in the early-mid 60s. It's therefore logical and right that Sam should appear in Ace's occasional BLACK AMERICA SINGS series, as he does this month in a package issued close to the 50th anniversary of his death in December 1964. BRING IT ON HOME features some of Sam's best-known songs (as well as - this being Ace - some of his least-known), many performed by artists whose careers Sam helped to get underway, including Johnnie Taylor, the Simms Twins, Mel Carter, and Bobby Womack. Also featured are a number of singers who owe a vocal debt to Sam, including Brenton Wood, R.B. Greaves, Johnny Nash, Otis Redding and Louis Williams of the Ovations.

1 Having a Party (Medley) - The Ovations
2 Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Johnnie Taylor
3 You Send Me - Percy Sledge
4 Shake - Otis Redding
5 The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) - Theola Kilgore
6 I'm Gonna Forget About You - Bobby Womack
7 When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter
8 Bring It on Home to Me - Eddie Floyd
9 That's Heaven to Me - The Soul Stirrers
10 Cupid - R B Greaves
11 Dance What You Wanna - The Miracles
12 I'll Come Running Back to You - Roy Hamilton
13 I'm Alright- Little Anthony and The Imperials
14 Wonderful World - Johnny Nash
15 Love You Most of All - The Persuasions
16 A Change Is Gonna Come - Brenton Wood
17 Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - The Flamingos
18 Somebody Have Mercy - Willie Hightower
19 Win Your Love for Me - Lou Rawls
20 The Smile - The Simms Twins
21 Good Times - Aretha Franklin
22 SooThe Me - Sam and Dave
23 Ain't That Good News - The Supremes
24 Soothe Me - Sam & Dave