The Songs Of Sam Cooke

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Part I - Written and Recorded By Sam Cooke, or for him

1. Ain't That Good News

2. All Of My Life    (Alpert / Adler)

3. Another Saturday Night

4. Baby, Baby, Baby

5. Born By The River (A Change Is Gonna Come)

6. Bridge Of Tears        (Alexander)

7. Bring It On Home To Me

8. Chain Gang

9. A Change Is Gonna Come

10. Cool Train 

11. Cupid

12. Darling, I Need You Now

13. Ease My Troublin' Mind

14. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha 

15. (Don't Fight It) Feel It

16. Forever        (Taylor)

17. Good Times

18. Happy In Love

19. Having A Party

20. I Ain't Gonna Cheat On You No More        (Prudhomme)

21. I Don't Want To Cry

22. If I Had You

23. I'll Come Running Back To You

24. I'm Gonna Forget About You

25. It's Allright

26. It's Got The Whole World Shakin'

27. Just For You

28. Keep Movin' On

29. Laughin' And A Clownin'

30. Let's Go Steady Again            (JW Alexander)

31. Little Things You Do            (JW Alexander)

32. Lost And Lookin'                (JW Alexander)

33. Lovable

34. Love Me

35. Love Will Find A Way

36. Love You Most Of All

37. Mean Old World

38. Meet Me At Mary's Place

39. Movin' And A Groovin'            (with Lou Rawls)

40. No One (Can Ever Take Your Place)

41. No Second Time                (Cliff White)

42. Nothing Can Change This Love

43. One More Time

44. Only Sixteen 

45. Rome Wasn't Built In A Day 

46. Sad Mood

47. Shake

48. She's So Wonderful

49. Somebody Have Mercy

50. Somewhere There's A Girl

51. Soothe Me

52. Sugar Dumpling

53. Stealing Kisses

54. Talkin' Trash                (With Samuels and Alexander)

55. Tenderness

56. That's All I Need To Know

57. That's Heaven To Me

58. That's Where It's At

59. Today I Sing The Blues

60. Touch The Hem Of His Garment

61. Try A Little Love

62. Twisting In The Kitchen

63. Twistin' The Night Away

64. When A Boy Falls In Love

65. A Whole Lotta Woman            (Alexander)

66. With You

67. Win Your Love For Me

68. Wonderful World 

69. Yeah Man

70. You Belong To Me

71. You Gotta Move

72. You're Always On My Mind

73. You Send Me

74. You Were Made For Me

Part II - (Co*)-Written By Sam Cooke, 

Recorded By Another Artist and not recorded by him

1. Amazing Grace    -    Soul Stirrers

2. Baby, We've Got Love    -    Johnnie Taylor

3. Chalk Line    -    L.C. Cooke

4. Dance And Let Your Hair Down    -    Patience Valentine

5. Dance What You Wanna    -    Clifton White    /    Johnnie Taylor

6. Ernistine    -    Patience Valentine

7. Happy Chatter    -    The Executives

8. He's Been A Shelter For Me    -    The Soul Stirrers

9. Hold Me    -    Jackie Ross

10. I Gopher You    -    The Simms Twins

11. I'll Always Be In Love With You    -    Johnnie Taylor

12. I´m All Right    -    Little Anthony and the Imperials.

13. I'm Thankful    -    Soul Stirrers

14. In My Heart             -    Johnnie Morrisette

15. Jesus Be A Fence Around Me    -    The Soul Stirrers

16. Lead Me Jesus    -    The Soul Stirrers

17. Lead Me To The Calvary    -    The Soul Stirrers

18. The Lover    -    L.C. Cooke

19. Magic Words    -    L.C. Cooke

20. Memory Lane    -    Recorded by Sam, never released. It was recorded and made famous by Lou Rawls

21. Meet Me At The Twisting Place    -    Johnnie Morrisette

22. Never            -    Johnnie Morrisette

23. Nobody Loves Me Like You    -    The Flamingoes

24. Oh, Mary Don't You Weep - The Soul Stirrers   

25. Only Time Will Tell - Shirelles

26. Put Me Down Easy    -    L.C. Cooke

27. She's So Good To Me    -    Valentinos

28. Sho' Miss You Baby    -    Johnnie Morrisette

29. The Smile    -    The Simms Twins

30. Something Here Inside    -    Soul Stirrers

31. Stand By Me    -    by Ben E. King, based on the Soul Stirrers' 'Stand By Me Father'

32. Stand By Me Father    -    The Soul Stirrers

33. Sweet Soul Music    -    re-write, but never credited, by Otis Redding and Arthur Conley. Yeah Man with different lyrics

34. Take Me For What I Am    -    L.C. Cooke

35. Teach Me    -    L.C. Cooke

36. Theme of Tomorrow    -    Clifton White

37. Tired Of Living In The Country    -    Valentinos

38. Wade In The Water    -    The Soul Stirrers

39. Wildest Girl In Town    -    Johnnie Morrisette

40. You're Workin' Out Your Bag    -    L.C. Cooke

41. Well Allright        -        Little Richard

42. The Wobble    -    L.C. Cooke

Part III - Recorded by Sam Cooke   

• Accentuate The Positive    (Mercer / Arlen)

• Ain't Misbehavin'     (Waller / Brooks / Razaf)

• Ain't Nobody's Bizzness If I Do    (Grainger / Robbins)

• All The Way        (Cahn / Van Heusen)

• Almost In Your Arms    (Livingston / Evans)

• Along The Navajo Trail    (Charles / Marks / DeLange)

• Around The World        (Adamson / Young)

• Arrivederci Roma    (Garinei / Giovannini / Ranucci / Sigman)

• Baby, Won't You Please Come Home    (Warfield / Williams)

• Bali Ha'i        (Rodgers / Hammerstein)

• Basin Street Blues            (Williams)

• The Bells Of St. Mary's        (Adams, Furber)

• Best Things In Life Are Free            (DeSylva, Brown, Henderson)

• Bill Bailey            (Cannon)

• Blowin' In The Wind        (Dylan)

• Blue Moon                (Hart / Rodgers)

• But Not For Me        (George and Ira Gerswhin)

• Camptown Twist        (Foster)

• Canadian Sunset        (Gimbell, Heywood)

• Chains Of Love        (A. Nugetre)

• The Coffee Song        (Hilliard, Miles)

• Comes Love            (Brown, Stept, Tobias)

• Cousin Of Mine        (Mack, Smith, Hein)

• Crazy She Calls Me        (Russell, Sigman)

• Cry                            (Coleman)

• Cry Me A River        (Arthur Hamilton)

• Danny Boy            (Weatherly)

• Deep River        (Burleigh)

• Desire Me        (Colver)

• Don't Cry (On My Shoulder)            (Prujan, Kennedy)

• Don't Get Around Much Anymore        (Russel / Duke Ellington)

• Driftin' Blues        (Brown / Norre / Williams)

• Ee Yi Ee Yi Oh

• Exactly Like You            (Fields / McHugh)

• Falling In Love            (Battiste)

• Far Away Places        (Kramer / Whitney)

• Farewell My Darling

• Fool's Paradise        (Fuller / Geddins / Avid)

• For Sentimental Reasons        (Watson / Best)

• Frankie & Johnny                (Dooley)

• Galway Bay                    (Colahan)

• Get Yourself Another Fool    (Tucker / Haywood)

• God Bless The Child        (Holiday / Herzog)

• Goin' Home

• Good Morning Heartache        (Drake / Fisher / Higgenbotham)

• Grandfather's Clock            (Work / Christian)

• The Great Pretender        (Ram)

• The Gypsy                (Read)

• Hey There                   (Adler / Ross)

• Hold On                (Berry / Covay)

• Home            (Van Steeden / Clarkson / Clarkson)

• The House I Live In            (Allen / Robinson)

• I Belong To Your Heart            (Brel / Sigman)

• I Cover The Waterfront        (Green / Heyman)

• I Fall In Love Every Day         (Clarke)

• If I Had A Hammer            (Hayes / Seeger)

• If You Were The Only Girl            (Ayer / Gray)

• I Lost Everything            (Ella Tate)

• I'm In The Mood For Love        (McHugh / Fields)

• I'm Just A Country Boy            (Brooks / Barer)

• I'm Just A Lucky So And So        (David / Ellington)

• I'm Walking Behind You            (Reid)

• I Thank God

• It's The Talk Of The Town            (Livingston / Neiberg / Symes)

• It's Time To Say Goodbye    (author unknown)

• I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues            (Ahrlen / Koehler)

• I Wish You Love            (Trenet / Wilson)

• Jamaica Farewell        (Burgess)

• Japanese Farewell Song            (Morgan / Yoshida /Hashegawa)

• Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair        (Foster)

• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off            (Gerschwin / Gerschwin)

• Little Girl                (Hyde / Hendry)

• Little Girl Blue        (Rodgers / Hart)

• Little Red Rooster        (Willie Dixon)

• London By Night            (Coates)

• Lonely Island            (Ahbaz)

• The Lonesome Road                (Austin / Shilkret)

• Long, Long Ago                        (Bailey / Haines)

• Lover Come Back To Me        (Hammerstein / Romberg)

• Lover Girl            (Davis / Sherman / Ramirez)

• Mary Mary Lou        (Mangiaracina)

• Mona Lisa            (Livingston / Evans)

• Moonlight In Vermont            (Suessdorf / Blackburn)

• My Foolish Heart                (Washington / Young)

• Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen                (Trad.)

• Nobody Knows/Wants You When You're Down And Out        (Jimmie Cox)

• Oh Look At Me Now            (Bushkin / DeVries)

• Old Man River

• One Hour Ahead Of The Posse            (Ives)

• Out In The Cold Again        (Koehler / Bloom)

• The Piper

• Please Don't Drive Me Away        (Ervin / Brown)

• Pray                        (Taylor)

• The Riddle Song            (trad.)

• Running Wild                (Gibbs / Gay / Wood)

• Secret Love                 (Webster / Fain)

• Send Me Some Lovin'            (Marascalco / Price)

• Shake, Rattle And Roll            (Calhoun)

• She's Funny That Way            (Whiting / Moret)

• Since I Met You Baby        (Ivory Joe Hunter)

• Sitting In The Sun        (Berlin)

• Smoke Rings        (Washington / Gifford)

• So Glamorous            (Smith / Goldsmith)

• Solitude                (Ellington / DeLange / Mills)

• So Long                (Harris / Melsher / Morgan)

• Somebody's Gonna Miss Me            (Brown / Reeves)

• Someday            (Hodges)

• The Song From Moulin Rouge            (Auric / Engvick)

• The Song Is Ended                    (Berlin)

• South Of The Border                (Carr / Kennedy)

• Steal Away            (trad.)

• Summertime            (Gershwin)

• Sweet Leilani                (Owens)

• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

• Tammy                (Livingston / Evans)

• Teenage Sonata                (Barry)

• Tennessee Waltz            (Stewart / King)

• That Lucky Old Sun        (Gillespie / Smith)

• That's All            (Brandt / Haymes)

• That's It  - I Quit - I'm Moving On            (Alfred / Sorino)

• Theme From Houseboat 

• There I've Said It Again       (Evans / Mann)

• These Foolish Things            (Marvell / Strachey / Link)

• They Call The Wind Mariah            (Loerner / Lowe)

• They Can't Take That Away From Me            (Gershwin)

• This Little Light Of Mine

• To Each His Own        (Livingston / Evans)

• Too Young            (Dee / Lippmann)

• Trouble Blues        (Charles Brown)

• Trouble In Mind        (Richard M. Jones)

• Try A Little Tenderness            (Woods / Campbell / Connely)

• Twilight On The Trail            (Alter)

• The Twist                (Ballard)

• Twistin' In The Old Town Tonight

• Unchained Melody            (Zareth / North)

• Under Paris Skies            (Gannon / Giraud)

• Venus                    (Marshall)

• The Wayward Wind            (Lobovsky / Newman)

• What Do You Say?        (?)

• When I Fall In Love            (Heyman / Young)

• Willow Weep For Me        (Ronell)

• You Understand Me            (?)

• You, You, You                (Olias / Mellin)

• You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You        (Morgan / Stock / Cavanaugh)