Sam Cooke is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on Keen Records in early 1958. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.
Track listing Side 1 "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41 "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31 "Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30 "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39 "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40 "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57 Side 2 "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25 "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58 "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05 "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17 "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38 "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16 "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 2:19
Personnel On "You Send Me" and "Summertime" Clifton White, René Hall – guitar Ted Brinson – bass guitar Earl Palmer – drums Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers – backing vocals
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (1958) Peakposition Billboard Top LPs 16
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