Sam Cooke - Portrait Of  A Legend 1951-1964
Sacd rip via PS3 to iso | May 2003 | 3.34 GB
ABKCO | Serial: 92642 | Stereo | Hybrid | Genre: Vocal

Checksum: 184190cc0e32d890e6d857394c35446f *Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend.iso

Review by Tom June 25, 2003 on SA-CD.net:
This is a bargain--if you like his music. 30 cuts, over 80 minutes of music, & 25+ pages of liner notes.
This brings back childhood memories. It's very well recorded. I wasn't familar with many cuts, but I am now. I've listened to this album about 5 times over he past week.
Highly recommended.

Aug. 24 Update: I bought both Keep Moving On & Portrait. Both have a lot of music & very few cuts in common. However, after owning these albums for a couple months, I clearly prefer Portrait, but am still glad I bought both. Both albums are highly recommended.
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Contains an untitled hidden track which follows "Jesus Gave Me Water."

       Tracks:

  1. Touch the Hem of His Garment
  2. Lovable
  3. You Send Me
  4. Only Sixteen
  5. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
  6. Just For You
  7. Win Your Love For Me
  8. Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
  9. I'll Come Running Back to You
10. You Were Made For Me
11. Sad Mood
12. Cupid
13. (What a) Wonderful World
14. Chain Gang
15. Summertime
16. Little Red Rooster
17. Bring it on Home to Me
18. Nothing Can Change This Love
19. Sugar Dumpling
20. (Ain't That) Good News
21. Meet Me at Mary's Place
22. Twistin' the Night Away
23. Shake
24. Tennesse Waltz
25. Another Saturday Night
26. Good Times
27. Having a Party
28. That's Where It's At
29. A Change is Gonna Come
30. Jesus Gave Me Water

        Details:
	
Recording type:
 	Analogue
Recording info:
 	Restoration Producers: Jody H. Klein & Teri Landi
Analog to Digital Transfers: Teri Landi, Rick Essig (The Master Cutting Room) & Mick Gochanour (MixUp NYC)
Sound Restoration & Archive Coordination: Steve Rosenthal (The Magic Shop)
Mastering: Bob Ludwig (Gateway Mastering & DVD)
DSD Engineer: Gus Skinas
DSD Assistant Engineer: Hiroyuki Komuro
Session Research: Maria Papazahariou
Audio Production Coordinator: Laura Wilson
Assistant Engineers: Matt Boynton, Tom Camuso, Ben Bailes

        Personnel: 

Lou Rawls (vocals); Joseph R. Gibbons (guitar, banjo); Edgar Blanchard, Everett Barksdale, Ulysses Livingston, Glen Campbell, William Pitman, Bob King , Howard Roberts , Norman Bartold, George Collier, John Pisano, Leroy Crume, Rene Hall, Tommy Tedesco , Barney Kessel, Bobby Womack, Clifton White (guitar); John DeVoogdt, Darrel Terwilliger, Robert Barene, Marvin Limonick, Hinda Barnet, Archie Levin, Elliot Fisher, Joseph Saxon, Myron Sandler, Gareth "Garry" Nuttycombe, Harold Dicterow, Fred Fradkin, Ambrose Russo, Irving Lipschultz, Tibor Zelig, Jack Pepper, Ben Miller , Isadore Roman, Leonard Malarsky, Max Cahn, Alfred Brown , Marshall Sosson, Sidney Sharp, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Charles Libove, David Nadien, Ralph Schaeffer, William Kurash, Harry Lookofsky (violin); Wilbert Nuttycombe, Alexander Neiman, Harry Hyams, Allan Harshman, Samuel Boghossian (viola); Joseph Coppin, Emmet Sargeant , Armand Karpoff, Cecil Figelski, Jesse Ehrlich, Frederick Seykora (cello); Jewell L. Grant, Edgar Redmond, John Kelson, Jr., Plas Johnson , Red Tyler, William Green (saxophone); John Anderson , Robert Bryant, Anthony Terran, Stu Williamson , Melvin Lastie (trumpet); William Hinshaw (French horn); Louise Blackburn, John Ewing , Dave Wells (trombone); Russell Bridges, Ernie Freeman, Edward Truman Beal, Harold Battiste, Jr., Warren Myles, Raymond Johnson, Ernie Hayes (piano); Billy Preston (organ); Emil Radocchia (marimba, timpani, percussion); Frank Capp, Eddie Hall, Hal Blaine (drums, percussion); David "Panama" Francis, Earl Palmer , Charles Blackwell, Ronald Selico, June Gardner, John Boudreaux (drums); Mike Pacheco (congas); Jack Costanza (bongos); Julius Wechter (percussion); Tom Kenny, Doreen Tryden, Betty Jane Baker, Carol Lee Lombard, R.B. Robinson, Alicia Adams, Ralph Brewster, Jimmie Outler, S.S. Farley, Robert Tebow, Thomas L. Bruster, Jackie Ward, James Bryant, Sue Allen, Lee Gotch, J.J. Farley, Charles Parlato, Loulie Jean Norman, Paul Foster, Richard Gibbs, S.R. Crain, Sally Stevens, Jack Halloran (background vocals).

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Some 46 years after his first pop hit, & 39 years after his death, comes only the 2nd attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA's early-80s The Man And His Music. From 1951's Soul Stirrers' gospel classic "Touch The Hem Of His Garment" through to 1964's "A Change Is Gonna Come" & "Shake," we get highlights of Cooke's career presented in state-of-the-art digital audio; superior in every way possible to the audio quality of The Man And His Music. What's more, this is a hybrid disc with SACD capability, & the sound on that layer is almost as much of a jump above the quality on the CD layer as this remastering is from the old The Man And His Music disc; & either the standard CD or the SACD playback makes that 1980s-issued compilation sound faint & anaemic. There's also annotation here--which was totally lacking on the earlier CD--by Peter Guralnick, which delve very effectively into the background of each song. And the producers have taken the trouble to be a little inventive in the programming--it would have been easy enough to follow a strict chronological approach, but instead the disc opens & closes with tracks that reveal Cooke's gospel roots; which is pretty much where his music started & where it ended up, bookending his 1st hit with songs from his 1st session ever.
 ~Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

 BBC Review:
At the end of 1956 Sam Cooke, the hot young star of gospel, recorded his 1st pop song; 6 months later, he went too far & was thrown off his record-label for using white backing singers & string accompaniments. In the songs he recorded between then & his death in 1964, he could - along with Ray Charles - plausibly claim to have invented soul, bringing the soaring voice of gospel to cool, Latin-derived rhythms. He was also one of the first black artists to bridge the racial divide, his music proving enourmously popular with black & white audiences alike.
This 30-track compilation rounds up all his best-known work, including self-penned classics like "You Send Me", "Twistin' The Night Away", "Cupid", "(What A) Wonderful World)", "Chain Gang" & "Bring It On Home To Me". All are distinguished by his conversational vocals ('Just talk the story', was his motto), hook-laden choruses & consistently inventive arrangements.

With perfect sound quality, & with sleeve-notes by Peter Guralnick, this is the best single-volume introduction to his work available -irresistible music for the long hot summer! 
~Alwyn Turner