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One Of The Better Sam Cooke Volumes Available
When RCA came out with one of their first CDs on the late, great Sam Cooke, the magnificent The Man And His Music, I was fortunate enough to get a copy before it was inexplicably allowed to go out of print. As a collector of hit singles, and at a time when finding them in their original format in any great quantity in one volume, I was fortunate indeed to get 19 of his 43 Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100 hits in that one neat package.
Finding the remaining 24 wasn't so easy, however. Oh, over the years one or two of his would crop up in multi-artist compilations, but another quality Sam Cooke volume just didn't seem to be available. In 1991 I did come across a 14-track issue from Woodford Music as part of their Silver Collection series which gave me two (Summertime and Lonely Island from his Kent years) but that was it (and that volume does not appear anywhere in Amazon's catalogue).
Then came this release from RCA in February 1998 which, although repeating 13 of the hits found in A Man And His Music, does add eight more in immaculate sound and in a package that includes six pages of detailed background notes by the best in the business, the noted author and music critic Joseph F. Laredo.
The only fault to find with this release is the use of brown text on an amber background on the reverse, where they list the contents, and on the back of the insert where the same listing also provides information on the recording dates and orchestras involved. SMALL beige print on a brown background makes it extremely hard to read for us older collectors whose eyesight has long since seen better days. Why do they do that anyway?
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It's called Greatest for a REASON
Like always, Sam Cooke delivers a sweet smooth velvety cruning that I just love. I think anyone who likes that old 50S-60s cruning sound will love it too. I t has all his best songs.
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Sam Cooke- Greatest Hits
I love this CD takes me back when I was a young girl.
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Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits
Excellent CD, this man had a voice from heaven and his songs were perfect. A CD you could listen to all day and never tire of . Great buy for Sam Cooke's fans. B.Hamilton,
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disappointed
Portrait of A Legend is much much better, wished that I hadn't bothered to buy this one as well as "Portrait"
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