Various Artists - Bring It On Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke (2014)

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. Its therefore logical and right that Sam should appear in Ace UK'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. 21 of the 23 featured recordings have never appeared on an Ace or Kent CD before. A suitably fitting tribute to a true giant of popular music and one whose influence pervades to this day.

Tracklist:

01. The Ovations feat Louis Williams - Having A Party (Medley)
02. Johnnie Taylor - Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day)
03. Percy Sledge - You Send Me
04. Otis Redding - Shake
05. Theola Kilgore - (Chain Gang) The Sound Of My Man
06. Bobby Womack - I'm Gonna Forget About You
07. Mel Carter - When A Boy Falls In Love
08. Eddie Floyd - Bring It On Home To Me
09. The Soul Stirrers - That's Heaven To Me
10. R.B. Greaves - Cupid
11. The Miracles - Dance What You Wanna
12. Johnnie Morisette - Meet Me At The Twistin' Place
13. Little Anthony & The Imperials - I'm Alright
14. Johnny Nash - Wonderful World
15. The Persuasions - Love You Most Of All
16. The Falcons - Pow! You're In Love
17. Brenton Wood - A Change Is Gonna Come
18. The Flamingos - Nobody Loves Me Like You
19. Willie Hightower - Somebody Have Mercy
20. Lou Rawls - Win Your Love
21. The Simms Twins - The Smile
22. Aretha Franklin - Good Times
23. The Supremes - (Ain't That) Good News
24. Sam & Dave - Soothe Me