Sam Cooke - Amazing Top Hits (2017)

Sam Cooke was the most important soul singer in history he was also the inventor of soul music, and its most popular and beloved performer in both the black and white communities. Equally important, he was among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of the music business, and founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. Yet, those business interests didn't prevent him from being engaged in topical issues, including the struggle over civil rights, the pitch and intensity of which followed an arc that paralleled Cooke's emergence as a star his own career bridged gaps between black and white audiences that few had tried to surmount, much less succeeded at doing, and also between generations; where Chuck Berry or Little Richard brought black and white teenagers together, James Brown sold records to white teenagers and black listeners of all ages, and Muddy Waters got young white folkies and older black transplants from the South onto the same page, Cooke appealed to all of the above, and the parents of those white teenagers as well yet he never lost his credibility with his core black audience. In a sense, his appeal anticipated that of the Beatles, in breadth and depth.

TRACKLIST

01. Cupid
02. Sad Mood
03. Danny Boy
04. Only Sixteen
05. Wonderful World9
06. Twistin' The Night Away
07. Little Girl
08. The Twist
09. Lonely Island
10. You Were Made For Me51
11. Long, Long Ago
12. Soothe Me
13. Out In The Cold Again
14. Get Yourself Another Fool
15. Along The Navajo Trail
16. Canadian Sunset
17. Please Don't Drive Me Away
18. My Foolish Heart
19. Japanese Farewell Song
20. I'm Walking Behind You
21. Ain't Nobody's Business
22. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
23. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
24. The Wayward Wind
25. She's Funny That Way
26. Hey There
27. Little Girl Blue
28. Moonlight In Vermont
29. When I Fall In Love
30. Venus
31. Feel It
32. I'll Come Running Back To You
33. There, I've Said It Again
34. London By Night
35. It's The Talk Of The Town
36. Laughin' And Clownin'
37. A Whole Lotta Woman
38. Tammy
39. Mean Old World
40. These Foolish Things
41. You're Always On My Mind
42. You Send Me
43. For Sentimental Reasons
44. No One (Can Ever Take Your Place)
45. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
46. South Of The Border
47. The Song Is Ended
48. Summertime
49. Sweet Leilani
50. Galway Bay