And Cooke did write singles it's an important point.
And so, Sam Cooke 'outed' himself as a pop singer, a pioneer of what would soon become known as 'soul.'īetween 1957 and his death seven years later, Cooke recorded an average of one Top Ten single ever four months a stunning feat then as now. The Soul Stirrers, along with everybody else, became aware of their man's infidelity and promptly asked him to leave. In 1956, after six years with the group, he released his first solo pop single, "Lovable," under the badly concealed pseudonym Dale Cook. The future wife-stealer's career in music began with a bang as a teenager in Chicago, when he was chosen to front legendary gospel singing group the Soul Stirrers, at the time entering their fourth decade as an ensemble, albeit with a revolving membership. Now, don't get me wrong Sam Cooke would just as easily have sex with your wife, but you'd be willing to pay to watch.
Marvin Gaye would have sex with your wife Isaac Hayes would have sex with your entire family and Prince would have sex with your ears before moving on to your wife, your sister, your daughter, her boyfriend and all four grandparents and rap about it on his next record. Later, soul became godless, became the sound of sex.
Soul was the sound of gospel and the passion of gospel channeled outside of the gospel. So begins the history of soul music as an identifiable art form. It wasn't until 2003 that a satisfactory replacement would become available, the ultimately superior Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964. Sam Cooke's music wasn't reproduced on any great scale for a long time, until 1986, in fact with the issue of The Man And His Music, a double-LP anthology which quickly went out of print again. The rights to license his music were divided between two companies, both of whom refused to compromise with the other. Unlike Redding, the legend of Cooke' wasn't. Like Redding, Sam Cooke was a superstar when he died. Now, if Otis Redding's death was a tragedy Sam Cooke's was doubly so. The cruel double-truth of this statement, muttered by soul DJ The Magnificent Montague in concluding a 1964 interview with the singer, would quickly become all too apparent with Cooke's untimely death two weeks before Christmas. 'Sam Cooke's yours he'll never grow old.' This essential collection contains recordings from Cooke’s gospel and early R&B career as well as his pop/soul hits from the SAR, Specialty and RCA labels and has combined them with the peak of his career on his own label, Tracey Records.#106 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums Of All Time Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 is the career-spanning 31 track collection of music pioneer Sam Cooke’s greatest works.
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