The Songs of Sam Cooke

The songs here are listed as followed: First the songs written by Sam Cooke, under the line in italics the songs he recorded, but written by others

A

Ain't That Good News
All Of My Life - written by Herb Alpert and Lou Adler for Sam Cooke
Amazing Grace - traditional arranged by Sam Cooke for the Soul Stirrers
Another Saturday Night

Accentuate the Positive (Mercer, Arlen)
Ain't Misbehaving (Waller, Brooks, Razaf
Ain't Nobody's Bizzniss 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)

B

Baby, Baby, Baby
Baby, We've Got Love (written for Johnnie Taylor)
Bridge of Tears written by J.W. Alexander
Bring It On Home To Me
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 (Bob Dylan)
Blue Moon (Hart, Rodgers)
But Not For Me (George Gerschwin, Ira Gerschwin)

C

Chain Gang
Chalk Line - written for L.C. Cooke
A Change Is Gonna Come
Cool Train
Cupid
Camptown Twist (Stephen 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 (Arhur Hamilton)

D

Dance And Let Your Hair Down - written for Patience Valentine
Dance What You Wanna -- written for Johnnie Taylor
Darling, I Need You Now
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 (Charles Brown, Norre, Williams)

E

Ease My Troublin' Mind
Ernistine -- written for Patience Valentine
Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
Ee Yi Ee Yi Oh (unknown)
Exactly Like You (Fields, McHugh)

F

(Don't Fight It) Feel It
Forever (Taylor)
Falling In Love (Battiste)
Far Away Places (Kramer, Whitnet)
Farewell My Darling (unknown)
Fool's Paradise (Fuller, Geddins, Avid)
For Sentimental Reasons (Watson, Best)
Frankie & Johnny (Dooley)

G

Good Times
Galway Bay (Colohan)
Get Yourself Another Fool (Tucker, Haywood)
God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday, Herzog)
Goin' Home (unknown)
Good Morning Heartache (Drake, Fisher, Higgenbotham)
Grandfather's Clock (Work, Christian)
The Great Pretender (Buck Ram)
The Gypsy (Read)

H

Happy Chatter -- written for the Executives with M. Lastie. Released on his Derby label.
Happy In Love
Having A Party
He's Been A Shelter For Me -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Hold Me -- written for Jackie Ross
Hey There (Adler, Ross)
Hold On (Berry, Don Covay)
Home (Van Steeden, Clarkson, Clarkson)

I

I Ain't Gonna Cheat On You No More
I Don't Want To Cry
If I Had You
I Gopher You -- written for The Simms Twins
I'll Always Be On Love With You -- written for Johnnie Taylor
I'll Come Running Back To You -- written by Bill Cook
I'm Allright -- written for Little Anthony and the Imperials
I'm Gonna Forget About You
I'm Thankful -- written for the Soul Stirrers
It's All Right
It's Got The Whole World Shaking
I Belong To Your Heart (Jacques Brel)
I Cover The Waterfront (Green, Heyman)
I Fall In Love Every Day (Clarke)
If I Had A Hammer (Hayes, Pete 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 (unknown)
It's The Talk Of The Town (Livingston, Neiberg, Symes)
It's Time To Say Goodbye (unknown)
I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues (Ahrlen, Koehler)
I Wish You Love (Trenet, Wilson)

J

Jesus Be A Fance Around Me -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Just For You
Jamaica Farewell (Burgess)
Japanese Farewell Song (Morgan, Yoshida, Hashegawa)
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair(Stephen Foster)

K

Keep Movin' On

L

Laughin' And A Clownin'
Lead Me Jesus -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Lead Me To The Calvary -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Let's Go Steady Again (J.W. Alexander)
Little Things You Do (J.W. Alexander)
Lost And Lookin' (J.W. Alexander)
Lovable
The Lover -- written for Sam Cooke
Love Me
Love Will Find A Way
Love You Most Of All
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (George Gerschwin, Ira Gerscwhin)
Little Girl (Hyde, Henry)
Little Girl Blue (Rodgers, Hart)
Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon)
London By Night (Coates)
Lonely Island (Eden Ahbaz)
The Lonesome Road (Austin, Shilkret)
Long, Long Ago (Bailey, Haines)
Lover Come Back To Me (Hammerstein, Romberg)
Lover Girl (Davis, Sherman, Ramirez)

M

Magic Words -- written for L.C. Cooke
Mean Old World
Meet Me At Mary's Place
Meet Me At The Twisting Place -- written for Johnnie Morrisette
Memory Lane -- written and likely recorded by Sam Cooke, never released. Lou Rawls sang it and released it
Movin' And A Groovin' (Sam Cooke / Lou Rawls)

Mary, Mary Lou (Mangiaracina)
Mona Lisa (Livingston, Evans)
Moonlight In Vermont (Suessdorf, Blackborn)
My Foolish Heart (Washington, Young)

N

Never -- written for Johnnie Morisette
Nobody Loves Me Like You -- written for the Flamingoes
No One (Can Ever Take Your Place)
No Second Time -- written by Cliff White
Nothing Can Change This Love
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (trad.)
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out(Jimmie Cox)

O

Oh, Mary Don't You Weep -- written for the Soul Stirrers
One More Time
Only Sixteen
Only Time Will Tell -- written for the Shirelles
Oh Look At Me Now (Bushkin, DeVries)
Old Man River
One Hour Ahead Of The Posse (Ives)
Out In The Cold Again (Koehler, Bloom)

P

Put Me Down Easy -- written for L.C. Cooke
The Piper
Please Don't Drive Me Away (Ervin, Brown)
Pray (Johnny Taylor)

R

Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
The Riddle Song (trad.)
Running Wild (Gibbs, Gay, Wood)

S

Sad Mood
Shake
She's So Good To Me -- written for the Valentinos
She's So Wonderful
Sho' Miss You Baby -- written for Johnnie Morrisette
The Smile -- written for the Simms Twins
Somebody Have Mercy
Something Here Inside -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Somewhere There's A Girl
Somewehre There's A God -- written for the Womack Brothers
Soothe Me
Stand By Me Father -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Stealing Kisses
Sugar Dumpling
Sweet Soul Music -- re-write by Otis Redding for Arthur Conley of Yeah Man
 

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 (Irving Berlin)
So Long (Harris, Melsher, Morgan)
Somebody's Gonna Miss Me (Brown, Reeves)
Someday (Hodges)
The Song From The Moulin Rouge (Auric, Engwick)
The Song Is Ended (Berling)
South of the Border (Carr, Kennedy)
Steal Away (trad.)
Summertime (Gershwin)
Sweet Leilani (Owens)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (trad.)

T

Take Me For What I Am -- written for L.C. Cooke
Talkin' Trash -- written by Sam Cooke, Samuels & J.W. Alexander
Teach Me -- written for L.C. Cooke
Theme of Tomorrow -- written for Clifton White
Tenderness
That's All I Need To Know
That's Heaven To Me
That's Where It's At
Tired Of Living In The Country -- written for the Valentinos
Today I Sing The Blues
Touch The Hem Of His Garment
Try A Little Love
Twisting In The Kitchen
Twistin' In The Old Town Tonight (arr.)
Twisting The Night Away

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)
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, Mitchell)
The Twist (Ballard)

U

Unchained Melody (Zareth, North)
Under Paris Skies (Gannon, Giraud)

V

Venus (Marshall)

W

Wade In The Water -- written for the Soul Stirrers
Well Allright -- written for Little Richard
When A Boy Falls In Love
A Whole Lotta Woman -- written by J.W. Alexander
Wildest Girl In Town -- written for Johnny Morrisette
Win Your Love For Me
With You
The Wobble
Wonderful World
The Wayward Wind (Lobovsky, Newman)
What Do You Say? (unknown)
When I Fall In Love (Heyman, Young)
Willow Weep For Me (Ronell)

Y

Yeah Man
You Belong To Me
You Gotta Move
You're Always On My Mind
You're Working Out Your Bag -- written for L.C. Cooke
You Send Me
You Were Made For Me
You Understand Me (unknown)
You, You, You (Olias, Mellin)
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (Morgan, Stock, Cavanaugh)