The Best of Sam Cooke

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Best of Sam Cooke
• 1
  Wonderful World
  2:08
  3.7 ★
• 2
  Only Sixteen
  1:55
• 3
  Chain Gang
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 4
  You Send Me
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Sad Mood
  2:40
• 6
  Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
  2:42
• 7
  Summertime
  2:22
• 8
  (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
  2:39
• 9
  Steal Away
  2:21
• 10
  Venus
  2:57
• 11
  Ol’ Man River
  2:37
• 12
  Win Your Love for Me
  2:47
• 13
  You Were Made for Me
  2:55
  2.0 ★
• 14
  The Little Things You Do
  2:15
• 15
  Unchained Melody
  3:30
  1.0 ★
• 16
  They Can’t Take That Away From Me
  2:32
• 17
  There, I’ve Said It Again
  2:00
• 18
  She’s Funny That Way
  1:51
• 19
  The Great Pretender
  3:06
• 20
  Blue Moon
  2:49
  1.0 ★
• 21
  Cry
  2:18
• 22
  I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  2:34
• 23
  Hey There!
  2:36
• 24
  Desire Me
  2:25
  2.0 ★
• 25
  Let’s Go Steady Again
  2:31
• 26
  I’ll Come Running Back to You
  2:13
• CD 2: Swing Low / Cooke’s Tour
• 1
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  3:04
• 2
  I’m Just a Country Boy
  4:03
• 3
  They Call the Wind Marīa
  2:54
• 4
  Twilight on the Trail
  3:08
• 5
  If I Had You
  2:15
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Chain Gang
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Grandfather’s Clock
  3:09
• 8
  I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
  3:42
• 9
  Pray
  2:11
• 10
  Long, Long Ago
  2:54
• 11
  You Belong to Me
  2:42
• 12
  Goin’ Home
  3:04
• 13
  Far Away Places
  3:28
• 14
  Under Paris Skies
  3:11
• 15
  South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)
  3:10
• 16
  Bali Haʻi
  3:17
• 17
  The Coffee Song
  2:04
• 18
  Arrivederci, Roma (Goodbye to Rome)
  2:48
• 19
  London by Night
  3:33
• 20
  Jamaica Farewell
  2:33
• 21
  Galway Bay
  2:59
• 22
  Sweet Leilani
  2:48
• 23
  Japanese Farewell Song
  2:56
• 24
  The House I Live In
  3:20

More by Sam Cooke

Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964

Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964 2003

The Complete Specialty Recordings

The Complete Specialty Recordings 2002

Keep Movin’ On

Keep Movin’ On 2001

Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits 1998

The Rhythm and the Blues

The Rhythm and the Blues 1995

The Man and His Music

The Man and His Music 1986

Release credits

• Adolphus Alsbrook
  bass [1, 13]
• Alicia Adams
  background vocals [4]
• Bumps Blackwell Orchestra
  performing orchestra [4]
• Charles Blackwell
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Charles Parlato
  background vocals [4]
• Clifton White
  guitar [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.13, 2.6]
• Dino Lapis
  engineer [1]
• Earl Palmer
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Glenn Osser
  conductor [1.3-4, 2.6]
• Hugo Peretti
  producer [2.6, 1.3]
• Lawrence Bunker
  vibraphone [13]
• Lee Gotch
  background vocals [4]
• Lou Adler
  producer [1]
• Luigi Creatore
  producer [2.6, 1.3]
• René Hall
  conductor [1], guitar [4, 13]
• Robert “Bumps” Blackwell
  producer [4, 13]
• Ronald Selico
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Sam Cooke
  lead vocals [2.6, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.13], producer [2.6, 1.1, 1.3]
• Sue Allen
  background vocals [4]
• Ted Brinson
  bass [4]
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Issues

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  The Best of Sam Cooke

  2x CD
  11 April 2011