ight CD boxset containing seven studio albums and one live album. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is commonly known as ‘the King of Soul’ for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music. Like most R&B artists of his time, Sam Cooke focused on singles, he had 29 top 40 hits on the pop charts and even more on the R&B charts. Albums 1 to 6 are remastered by Vic Anesini, 7 and 8 by Bob Ludwig, both highly respected and revered names.
– Disc 1 –
1 Far Away Places
2 Under Paris Skies
3 South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)
4 Bali Ha’i
5 The Coffee Song (They’ve Got An Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
6 Arrivederci, Roma (Goodbye to Rome)
7 London By Night
8 Jamaica Farewell
9 Galway Bay
10 Sweet Leilani
11 The Japanese Farewell Song
12 The House I Live in
– Disc 2 –
1 Hey There
2 Mona Lisa
3 Too Young
4 The Great Pretender
5 You, You, You
6 Unchained Melody
7 The Wayward Wind
8 Secret Love
9 The Song from Moulin Rouge
10 I’m Walking Behind You
11 Cry
12 Venus
– Disc 3 –
1 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
2 I’m Just a Country Boy
3 They Call the Wind Maria
4 Twilight on the Trail
5 If I Had You
6 Chain Gang
7 Grandfather’s Clock
8 Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
9 Long, Long Ago
10 Pray
11 You Belong to Me
12 Goin’ Home
– Disc 4 –
1 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
2 Little Girl Blue
3 Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out
4 Out in the Cold Again
5 But Not for Me
6 Exactly Like You
7 I’m Just a Lucky So and So
8 Since I Met You Baby
9 Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
10 Trouble in Mind
11 You’re Always on My Mind
12 The Song Is Ended
– Disc 5 –
1 Twistin’ the Night Away
2 Sugar Dumpling
3 Twistin’ in the Kitchen with Dinah
4 Somebody’s Gonna Miss Me
5 A Whole Lotta Woman
6 The Twist
7 Twistin’ in the Old Town Tonight
8 Movin’ and A’ Groovin’
9 Camptown Twist
10 Somebody Have Mercy
11 Soothe Me
12 That’s It – I Quit – I’m Movin’ on
– Disc 6 –
1 I Wish You Love
2 Willow Weep for Me
3 Chains of Love
4 Smoke Rings
5 All the Way
6 Send Me Some Lovin’
7 Cry Me a River
8 Driftin’ Blues
9 For Sentimental Reasons
10 Nothing Can Change This Love
11 Little Girl
12 These Foolish Things
– Disc 7 –
1 Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
2 Lost and Lookin’
3 Mean Old World
4 Please Don’t Drive Me Away
5 I Lost Everything
6 Get Yourself Another Fool
7 Little Red Rooster
8 Laughin’ and Clownin’
9 Trouble Blues
10 You Gotta Move
11 Fool’s Paradise
12 Shake Rattle and Roll
– Disc 8 –
1 Soul Twist / Introduction
2 Feel It (Don’t Fight It)
3 Chain Gang
4 Cupid
5 Medley: It’s All Right / for Sentimental Reasons
6 Twistin’ the Night Away
7 Somebody Have Mercy
8 Bring It on Home to Me
9 Nothing Can Change This Love
10 Having a Party