Sam Cooke in the Studio
This is the most complete list of the studio sessions of Sam Cooke. I have including almost everything: as a member of the Soul Stirrers, solo but also as a producer for other artists. There may be some mistakes, mostly because the information in the books and albums is not always the same, I have mentioned it when it happens.
Note on the takes: Sometimes I mention the number of takes it took to record a song, in most cases (especially with the Soul Stirrers) this means the minimum amount of takes that I have found
With Musicians I have listed all that were part of the recording session, it does not automaticalle mean that they play on all the songs of that session, for particular information on the song go to the songs page.
Date: March 1, 1951
Studio: Universal Recorders, Hollywood
A & R: Art Rupe
Musicians:
Sam Cooke, SR Crain, Jesse Farley, TL Bruster, Paul Foster, RB Robinson
Songs: Come Let Us Go Back To God /
Peace In The Valley / I´m Gonna Build Right
On That Shore (2x) / I'm On The Firing Line
(2x) / Joy, Joy To My Soul
/ Until Jesus Calls Me Home
/ Jesus Done Just What He Said
/ Jesus Gave Me Water /
He's My Rock (Wait On Jesus) / How Far Am I
From Canaan? / Christ Is All
Information: First Studio Session of Sam Cooke
Date: February 22, 1952
Studio: Universal Recorders, Hollywood
A & R: Art Rupe
Musicians: Sam Cooke, SR Crain, Jesse Farley, Bob King, Paul Foster, RB Robinson
Songs: It Won´t Be Very Long (3 takes) / Jesus Will Lead Me To That Promised You (3 takes) / How Far Am I From Canaan? (3 takes) / Just Another Day / Let Me Go Home (2 takes) / Jesus Paid The Debt (2 takes) / Someday Somewhere
Date: February 27, 1953
Studio: Universal Recorders in Hollywood
A & R: J.W. Alexander
Musicians: Sam Cook, SR Crain, Jesse Farley, Paul Foster, RB Robinson, Bob King (?), Faidest Wagoner (maybe, piano)
Songs: End Of My Journey / He'll Welcome Me / He's My Friend 'Til The End 2x) / I Have A Friend Above All Others
Date: July 10, 1953
Studio: Universal Recorders, Hollywood
A & R: Art Rupe
Musicians: Sam Cook, SR Crain, Jesse Farley, Paul Foster, RB Robinson (vocals), Bob King (guitar)
Songs: Come And Go To That Land (3 takes) / I'd Give Up All My Sins And Serve The Lord (aka I Gave Up Everything To Follow Him) / I'm So Happy In The Service Of The Lord
Date: March 2, 1954
Studio: Master Recorders, Hollywood
A & R: Art Rupe
Musicians: Sam Cook, SR Crain, Jesse J Farley, Bob King, RB Robinson (vocals), Faidest Wagoner- piano
Songs: All Right Now (4 takes) / Any Day Now (6 takes) / He´ll Make A Way (2 takes) / Jesus I´ll Never Forget (5 takes)
Date: February 16, 1955
Studio: Universal Recording Studios, Chicago
A & R: S.R. Crain
Musicians: Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, Silas Roy Crain, Jesse J Farley, RB Robinson (vocals), Willie Webb -organ, Edward Robinson -piano
Songs: Nearer To Thee / Be With Me Jesus / One More Time / I´m So Glad
Date: August 17, 1955
Studio: Master Recorders, Hollywood
A & R: Art Rupe
Musicians: Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, SR Crain, Leroy Crume, RB Robinson (vocals) Guitar: either Bob King or Leroy Crume. Drums unknown, but most likely Abe Mills.
Songs: He's My Guide (12 takes) / Pilgrim of Sorrow / Pray / The Last Mile Of The Way (3 takes)
Date: February 2, 1956
Studio: Master Recorders, Hollywood
A&R: Art Rupe
Musicians: SR Crain, Sam Cook, Jesse J Farley, RB Robinson, Thomas BrusterPaul Foster (vocals), LeRoy Crume (guitar on Pilgrim of Sorrow), piano, drums and organ unknown, Bob King - guitar on 'Touch The Hem of His Garment'
Songs: Wonderful / Farther Along / Touch The Hem Of His Garment / Must Jesus Bear This Cross Alone / Jesus Wash Away My Troubles
Date: August 21, 1956 (probably)
Studio and personnel unknown
Musicians: Sam Cooke
Songs: Happy In Love / I Need You Know / I'll Come Running Back To You
Date: December 12, 1956
Studio: Cosimo´s Studios: New Orleans
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians: Earl Palmer -leader/drums, Warren Myles -piano, Edgar Blanchard -guitar, Frank Fields -bass, Lee Allen - tenorsax, Red Tyler - baritonesax, Sam Cooke - vocals
Songs: Lovable / Forever / That´s All I Need To Know / I Don´t Want To Cry
Date: April 10, 1957 (The Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers mentioned April 19, as does Peter Guralnick.)
Studio: Universal Recording Studios, Chicago
Producer: Most likely SR Crain
Musicians: Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, SR Crain, Leroy Crume, RB Robinson (vocals), Evelyn Gay -piano, Willie Webb -organ, L.C. Cook -drums, Le Roy Crume -guitar
Songs: That´s Heaven To Me (2 takes) / Were You There? (5 takes) / Mean Old World (3 takes) / Lord Remember Me
Information: Sam's last studio recording with the Soul Stirrers. It was supposed to take place on February 21 but SR Crain had hired a union drummer who threatened to report that Webb and Gay were not. Sam's brother L.C., who had never drummed before, was now asked to sit in and keep the beat.
Date: June 1, 1957
Studio: Radio Recorders
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians: Cliff White -guitar, Rene Hall -rhythm guitar, Ted Brinson -bass, Earl Palmer -drums, Lee Gotch -background vocals, Pied Pipers -background vocals
Songs: You Were Made For Me / You Send
Me / Summertime
Information: It started at 1:30pm
Date: June 6, 1957
Studio: Radio Recorders
Musicians: Cliff White -guitar, Rene Hall -Rhythm Guitar, Charles Blackwell -drums, Adolphus Alsbrook -bass, Jack Costanzo -percussion
Songs: Stealing Kisses / All Of My Life / Win Your Love For Me
Information: session sheet signed by Lou Adler
Date: August 23, 1957
Studio: Keen Recording/Radio Recorders, Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke/Bumps Blackwell Engineer: Dino Lapis
Artist Sam Cooke
Musicians Charles Blackwell - drums / Ted Brinson - bass / George Collier - guitar / Clifton White - guitar / Lawrence Bunker - vibes (on "Made For Me")
Songs You Were Made For Me, For Sentimental Reasons
Date: November 26, 1957
Studio: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians: Clifton White - guitar / René Hall - guitar / Ted Brinson - bass / Earl Palmer - drums
Songs: You Were Made For Me
Date: February 1958 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, or March 19, 1958 (Guralnick)
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Songs: All Of My Life / Mary, Mary Lou
Date: June 22, 1958
Studio: Capitol Records, Hollywood, CA
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians Clifton White - guitar / Ulysses Livingston & Bob Bain - guitar / Charles Blackwell - drums / Adolphus Asbrook - bass / Jack Costanzo - percussion
Songs: Win Your Love For Me
Date: August 6 & 7 1958 at Rex Productions Inc. in Los Angeles, California
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Arranger and Conductor: Rene Hall
Songs: Aug 6: Accentuate the Positive / Today I Sing The Blues / Oh Look At Me Now / My Foolish Heart / When I Fall In Love / Aug 7: I Cover The Waterfront / The Gypsy
Date: September 1958 at Rex Productions Inc. in Los Angeles, California
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Arranger and Conductor: Rene Hall
Songs: Blue Moon
Date: December 1958
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians: Clif White - guitar
Songs: Summertime
Date: January 4th, 1959
Studio: Rex Productions, Los Angeles, California
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians: Clifton White - guitar / René Hall - guitar / Adolphus Asbrook - bass / Charles Blackwell - drums
Songs: Only Sixteen
Date: January 7th, 1959
Studio: Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA
Producer: Bumps Blackwell
Musicians Adolphus Asbrook - bass / Charles Blackwell - drums / Jack Costanza - bongos / Rene Hall - guitar / Mike Pacheco - conga / Clifton White - guitar
Songs: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha
Date: January 14, 1959
Studio: Sound Enterprises in Hollywood, CA
Arranger and Conductor: Rene Hall
Songs: Ain't Nobody's Bizniss If I Do / Comes Love / Let's Call The Whole Thing Off / They Can't Take That Away From Me
Date: January 23, 1959
Studio: Sound Enterprises in Hollywood, CA
Arranger and Conductor: Rene Hall
Songs: I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues / Lover Girl / Solitude
Date: January 27, 1959
Studio: Sound Enterprises in Hollywood, CA
Arranger and Conductor: Rene Hall
Songs: Crazy She Calls Me / God Bless The Child
Date: February 25, 1959
Studio: Sound Enterprises in Hollywood CA
Musicians: William Collette, Plas Johnson -sax, Bill Green -horn, Rene Hall - arranger and conductor
Songs: Good Morning Heartache / She's Funny That Way
Date: March 2/3, 1959
Musicians: Cliff White -guitar, Earl Palmer -drums, Red Callender -bass, Rene Hall -orchestra, dummer unknown on March 2nd but it might be Ronald Selico
Songs: Wonderful World
(2) / That´s Heaven To Me
/ I Thank God / Deep River
/ Steal Away,
Information: Last Session of Sam Cooke for Keen
Date: July 24, 1959
Studio: Capitol Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: unknown
Songs: Just For You
Date: September 1, 1959
Studio: Universal Recording Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: The Soul Stirrers (including
Paul Foster and Johnnie Taylor on lead)
Songs: Wade In The Water / Stand By Me
Father
Info: This was the first recording sessions for SAR Records
Date: December 2, 1959
Studio: Keen Recording Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Dino Lapis
Artist: Sam Cooke
Songs: That's Heaven To Me
Date: January 25 & 28 1960
Studio: RCA New York, Studio A
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Glen Osser
Musicians: Cliff White -guitar / Hugo Peretti -organ / Hank Jones - piano
Songs: Chain Gang (25), Teenage Sonata (28), I Belong To Your Heart (28)
Info: Session lasted from 8 till 1.30 PM (25). On the 25th they tried recording Teenage Sonata but it didn't work so they recorded it on the 28th, in 4 takes.
Date: April 13, 1960
Studio: RCA New York, Studio A
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Billy Mure
Musicians: Hugo Peretti -organ on Sad Mood / Hank Jones - piano
Songs: Sad Mood (Unreleased Version on Hits!) / Love Me
Date: August 22, 1960
Studio: United Recording Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bill Putnam
Artist: Johnnie Morisette
Musicians: J.W. Alexander (back-up singing) / L.C. Cooke (back-up singing) / S.R. Crain (back-up singing)
Songs: You're Always On My Mind / Damper / Dorothy On My Mind
Date: September 2, 1960
Artist: L.C. Cooke
Musicians: Clif White (guitar) / René Hall (bass_
Songs: Sufferin' (15 takes) / The Lover
Date: September 6-7, 1960 (night session on the 6th)
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Eddie Brackett
Artists: The Soul Stirrers (feat. Paul Foster and Jimmie Outler)
Other musicians: S.R. Crain (back-up) and maybe Sam Cooke (back-up)
Songs: I'm A Pilgrim / Listen To The Angels Sing / Jesus Be A Fence Around Me / Don't Leave Me Alone (7) / Must Jesus Bear This Cross Alone (7)
Other: They also did some vocal overdubs for L.C. Cooke songs from a few days before.
Date: September 9 & 10, 1960 (two 4-hour sessions on the 9th)
Studio: RCA New York, Studio B
Producer: Hugo & Luigi Engineer: Bob Simpson
Musicians: Hank Jones - piano
Songs: If I Had You / You Belong To Me / I'm Just A Country Boy / Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair / Grandfather's Clock
Information: Most of these songs ended up on the 'Swing Low' album
Date: October 1, 1960
Studio:
RCA New York, Studio A
Producer:
Hugo & Luigi
Orchestra Conducted by: Sammy Lowe
Musicians: Ernie Hayes - piano / Everett Barksdale - violin / Hinda Barnet - violin / Alfred Brown - violin / Max Cahn - violin / Fred Fradkin - violin / David Francis - drums / Milton Hinton - bass / Archie Levin - violin / Charles Libove - violin / Harry Lookofsky - violin / Ben Miller - violin / Clifton White - guitar
Songs: Sad Mood /
Tenderness
Date: January 30, 1961
Studio: RCA New York, Studio A
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Sammy Lowe
Musicians: Ernie Hayes - piano
Songs: That´s It - I Quit - I´m Moving On / Hold On
Date: April 14, 1961
Studio: RCA Hollywoord, Studio 1
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Rene Hall
Musicians: Josephn Gibbons - guitar/banjo / René Hall - guitar / Clifford Hils - bass / Earl Palmer - drums / Clifton White - guitar / Simms Twins (all on 'Cupid')
Songs: Cupid / Tenderness
(unreleased version)
Date:
May 19-20, 1961
Studio:
RCA New
York,
Studio A
Producers:
Hugo & Luigi
Orchestra
Conducted by:
Sammy Lowe
Musicians: Ernie Hayes - piano / Morris Wechsler - piano
Songs: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / Trouble In Mind (19) / Out In The Cold Again / Exactly Like You / Since I Met You Baby / I’m Just A Lucky So And So / But Not For Me / You’re Always On My Mind (20)
Info:
This was a recording session for the ‘My Kind Of Blues’ album
Date: June 5, 1961
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bones Howe
Artist: The Simms Twins
Songs: Soothe Me
Date: June 28, 1961
Studio: Universal Recording in Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: The Womack Brothers / Sam Cooke
Songs: Yield Not To Temptation / Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray / Somewhere There's A God / Somewhere There's A Girl (by Sam Cooke)
Info: "Somewhere there's a girl" is the secular version of "Somewhere There's A God", the Womacks sung background to Sam Cooke.
Date: August 9, 1961
Studio: RCA New York, Studio A
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Stan Applebaum, Ralph Burns
Musicians: Ernie Hayes - piano
Songs: It´s All Right / Feel It / Frankie & Johnny
Date: September 20, 1961
Studio: Universal Recording in Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artists: The Soul Stirrers feat Jimmie Outler
Songs: God Is Standing By / Lead Me Jesus
Date: December 18/19, 1961
Studio: RCA Hollywood, Studio 1
Producers: Hugo & Luigi Engineer: Al Schmitt
Conductor: Rene Hall
Musicians: Ernie Hayes - piano (on 18th) / Edward T. Beal - piano (19th) / John Ewing - sax (18th) / Jewell Grant - sax / René Hall (guitar) / John Kelsom (sax) / Earl Palmer (drums) / Tommy Tedesco (guitar) / Clifton White (guitar)
Songs: Twisting The Night Away (18) / Somebody´s Gonna Miss Me / One More Time (19) / Don’t Cry On My Shoulder (19)
Date: January 4, 1962
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Eddie Brackett
Artist: Johnnie Morisette
Songs: Meet Me At The Twisting Place
Date: January 26, 1962
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bones Howe
Artist: Johnnie Taylor Musicians: Lou Rawls, Sam Cooke and JW Alexander sing backup on 'Rome', Clif White - guitar, Earl Palmer - drums
Songs: I'll Always Be In Love With You / Baby We've Got Love / Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
Date:
February 15/19, 1962
Studio:
RCA Hollywood Studio 1
Producers:
Hugo & Luigi
Conductor:
Rene Hall
Musicians: Edward T. Beal - piano
Songs: Somebody Have Mercy (15) /
Sugar Dumpling (Original
Version) (15) / Nothing Can Change This Love
(unreleased version) (15) / Talkin
Trash (16) / Soothe Me
(19) / Somebody’s Gonna Miss Me
(19) / Movin' And A
Groovin (19)
Info: Most of these songs ended up on the ‘Twisting The
Night Away’ album
Date: February 27, 1962
Studio: Universal Recording Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: R.H.Harris & His Gospel Paraders
Songs: Somebody / Sometime / Pass Me Not
Date: February 28, 1962
Studio: Universal Recording Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: The Valentinos
Songs: Lookin' For A Love
Date: April 26, 1962
Studio: RCA Hollywood, Studio 1
Producers: Hugo & Luigi Engineer: Al Schmitt
Conductor: Rene Hall
Musicians: Lou Rawls / Frank Capp (Drums, percussion) / Cecil Figelski (cello) / Elliot Fisher (violin) / William Green (saxophone) / René Hall (guitar) / Armand Kaproff (cello) / Wilbert Nuttycombe (viola) / Ray Pohlman (bass) / Myron Sandler (violin) / Joseph Saxon (violin) / Ralph Schaeffer (violin) / Marshall Sosson (violin) / Tommy Tedesco (guitar) / Irving Weinper (viola) / Ernie Freeman (piano) / William Green - sax (on 'Party') / Marvin Limonick - violin (on 'Party') / Clifton White - guitar
Songs: Having A Party / Bring It On Home To Me
Date: August 1, 1962
Studio: Universal Recording Chicago
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: The Simms Twins
Songs: I Gopher You / Good Good Loving
Date: August 23, 1962
Studio: RCA Hollywood, Studio 1
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Rene Hall
Musicians Nathan Griffin (organ on 'Forget') / Israel Baker (violin) / Robert Barené (violin) / Edward Beal (piano) / Samuel Boghossian (viola) / Joseph Coppin (cello) / John DeVoogdt (violin) / Harold Dickterow (violin) / Elliot Fisher (violin) / René Hall (guitar) / Allan Harshman (viola) / William Kurasch (violin) / Leonard Malarsky (violin) / Gareth Nuttycombe (violin) / Earl Palmer (drums) / Isadore Roman (violin) / Ralph Schaeffer (violin) / Frederick Seykora (cello) / Darrell Terwilliger (violin)
Songs: Nothing Can Change This Love / I'm Gonna Forget About You
Date: November 29, 1962
Studio: RCA Hollywood, Studio 1
Producers: Hugo & Luigi / Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Conductor: Horace Ott
Songs: Baby, Baby, Baby / Send Me Some Lovin´
Date: December 14 & 15 & 16, 1962
Studio: RCA Hollywood Studio 1
Producers: Hugo Peretta & Luigi Creatore Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Orchestra conducted by Horace Ott
Songs: All The Way (14) / Smoke Rings (14) / I Wish You Love (15) / Driftin´ Blues (16) / Cry Me A River (16) / Little Girl (16) / These Foolish Things (16)
Information: For the 'Mr. Soul' album
Date: December 20-22, 1962
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bones Howe
Artist: The Valentinos / Johnnie Morisette
Songs: I've Got A Girl (Valentinos 20) / Tired Of Living In The Country (Valentinos 20) / That's Where It's At (Valentinos - 22) / Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong (Morisette - 22)
Date: February 15 and 19, 1963
Studio: United Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Jim Malloy
Artist: L.C. Cooke Musicians: Sam Cooke and S.R. Crain do backup vocals
Songs: Put Me Down Easy (15) / The Wobble (19)
Date: February 22/23/25/27/28, 1963
Studio: RCA Hollywood
Producers: Hugo & Luigi Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Conductor: Rene Hall
Musicians Billy Preston - Organ (not on 28) // on the 28th: John Anderson - trumpet / Hal Blaine - Drums/Percussion / John Ewing - trombone / Jewell Grant - sax / René Hall - guitar / Raymond Johnson - piano / Clifton White - guitar
Songs: Lost And Lookin´ / Little Red Rooster / Get Yourself Another Fool / I Lost Everything / Trouble Blues (22) / Fools Paradise (25) / Please Don´t Drive Me Away (25) / I Ain't Gonna Cheat On You No More (27) / Another Saturday Night (28)
Information The bulk of these sessions, February 22 to 25, ended up on the 'Night Beat' album
Date: February 27, 1963
Studio: Universal Recording Chicago
Producers: J.W. Alexander Engineer: Bob Kidder
Artist: Soul Stirrers with Jimmie Outler on lead vocals
Songs: Amazing Grace / Free At Last
Notes The SAR Records Box mentions Sam Cooke as producer of Amazing Grace. This is very unlikely because "I Ain't Gonna Cheat No More" was recorded that same day in Los Angeles. He had been on LA to record his 'Night Beat' album and some other songs, as mentioned above here. The SAR Records box mentions that "Since I Met The Savior" was produced by J.W. Alexander, hence my theory that there is a mistake in the SAR Records liner notes.
Date: June 15, 1963
Studio: RCA Hollywood
Producers: Hugo & Luigi
Conductor: Gerald Wilson
Songs: Cool Train
Date: July 19, 1963
Studio: Bell Sound New York
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Tony & Dave
Artist: The Valentinos
Songs: Baby, Lots Of Luck
Date: September 4, 1963
Studio: R.C.A. Victor Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Artist: Johnnie Morisette
Songs: Black Night
Date: September 11, 1963
Studio: RCA Hollywood
Songs: I'm Just a Country Boy, Sugar Dumpling
Producers: Sam Cooke with Al Schmitt Engineer: Bones Howe
Musicians: Robert Barené (violin) / Arnold Belnick (violin) / James Bond (bass) / Russell Bridges (piano) / Glen Campbell (guitar) / John DeVoogdt (violin) / Jesse Ehrlich (cello) / Harry Hyams (viola) / William Kurasch (violin) / Irving Lipschultz (violin) / Leonard Malarsky (violin) / Alexander Neiman (viola) / Earl Palmer (drums) / Ray Pohlman (bass) / Ambrose Russo (violin) / Emmet Sargeant (cello) / Ralph Schaeffer (violin) / Sidney Sharp (violin) / Darrel Terwilliger (violin) / Clifton White (guitar) / Tibor Zelig (violin)
Background Vocals: Betty Baker, Jackie Ward, Robert Tebow, Doreen Trydeen & Jack Halloran
Arranged and Conducted By: Jimmie Haskell
Date: December 20/21, 1963
Studio: RCA Studio, Hollywood California Producers: Hugo & Luigi Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Musicians John Ewing (trombone) / Joseph Gibbons (guitar/banjo) / Jewell Grant (sax) / William Green (sax) / Edward Hall (drums/percussion) / René Hall (guitar) / John Pisano (guitar) / Emil Radocchia (marimbi, tympani, percussion) / Edgar Redmond (saxophone) / Howard Roberts (guitar) / Eddie Tilman (bass) / Clifton White (guitar)
Arranged and Conducted by René Hall
Songs: Good News (20) / Basin Street Blues (21) / Good Times (20/21) / The Riddle Song (21) / There´ll Be No Second Time (21) / Keep Movin On (21)
Date: January 21, 1964
Studio: ? in Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke
Artist: Johnny Morisette Musicians: Bobby Womack, Harold Battiste, Red Tyler
Information First SAR session with AFO Collective
Songs: You Send Me
Date: January 28/29/30, February 2, 1964
Studio: RCA Studios in Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Wally Heider / Bones Howe (at least on the Soul Stirrers track, not sure about the others)
Artist: Soul Stirrers (feat Jimmie Outler), Sam Cooke
Musicians Chuck Badie (bass) / Harold Battiste (piano) / John Boudreaux (drums) / LeRoy Crume (guitar) / John Ewing (Trombone) / William Green (saxophone) / René Hall (guitar) / Melvin Lastie (trumpet) / Clifton White (guitar) / Red Tyler - saxophone
On 'Change': Chuck Badie / Israel Baker - violin / Norman Bartold - guitar / Harold Battiste / Arnold Belnick - guitar / Louis Blackburn - trombone / John Ewing - trombone / Harry Hyams - viola / René Hall - guitar / William Hinshaw - french horn / William Kurasch - trumpet / Irving Lipschultz - violin / Leonard Malarsky - violin / Alexander Neiman - viola / Earl Palmer - drums / Jack Pepper - violin / Emil Radocchia - marimba, tympani, percussion / Emmet Sargeant - cello / Ralph Schaeffer - violin / Sidney Sharp - violin / Darrel Terwilliger - violin / David Wells - trombone / Clif White / Tibor Zelig - violin
Background Vocals: Soul Stirrers (SR Crain, Paul Foster, Jimmie Outler, Richard Gibbs, JJ Farley)
Songs: Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (28) / Meet Me At Mary's Place (28) / Tennessee Waltz (28) / Oh Mary Don't You Weep (28 - recorded by the Soul Stirrers) / Looking Back (28 - Soul Stirrers / Falling In Love (30) / A Change Is Gonna Come (30) / Good Times (2)
Notes These were busy days. On the same day he recorded the first three songs he, if the notes in the SAR Box and the Man Who Invented Soul 4CD Box are correct, also produced some tracks for the Soul Stirrers, who also sung background on some of the songs he recorded for himself. 'Good Times' was an overdubbing
Drummer John Boudreaux, part of the AFO, was scheduled to play on 'A Change' but was intimidated by the orchestra that he quit. Earl Palmer was around so he took over.
Date: March 12, 1964
Studio: Western Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Bones Howe
Artist: Johnnie Taylor
Songs: I Need Lots Of Love
Date: March 24, 1964
Studio: Universal Recording Hollywood
Producer: Sam Cooke Engineer: Wally Heider
Artist: The Valentinos
Songs: I've Got Love For You / It's All Over Now
Date: March 25, 1964
Studio: RCA Studio, Los Angeles
Songs: Yeah Man
Date: April 9, 1964
Studio: RCA Los Angeles
Songs: You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Ease My Troublin' Mind
Date: July 20, 1964
Studio: R.C.A. Victor Recording Hollywood
Producer Sam Cooke Engineer: Jim Malloy
Artist The Soul Stirrers feat Paul Foster
Songs: Lead Me To The Calvary
Date: August 7 or 12, 1964
Studio: RCA New York
Songs: Cousin of Mine, I'm in the Mood For Love
Date: August 20, 1964
Studio: RCA Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke with Al Schmitt Engineer: Dick Bogart
Arranged and Conducted by René Hall
Musicians: John Anderson - trumpet / Harper Cosby - bass / John Ewing - trombone / June Gardner - drums / Jewell Grant - sax / René Hall - guitar / Darel Terwilliger - violin / Bobby Womack - guitar
Songs: That's Where It's At
Date: November 16, 1964
Studio: RCA Los Angeles
Producer: Sam Cooke with Al Schmitt Engineer Dave Hassinger
Arranged & Conducted by René Hall
Musicians: Robert Bryant (trumpet) / Frank Capp (drums, percussion) / Harper Cosby (bass) / John Ewing (trombone) / Jewell Grant (saxophone) / William Green (saxophone) / René Hall (guitar) / Plas Johnson (sax) / Earl Palmer (drums) / Anthony Terran (trumpet) / Bobby Womack (guitar)
Background Vocals: Carol Lee Lombard, Sally Stevens Castle, Betty Jane Baker, James Bryant, Thomas D. Kenny & Robert Tebold
Songs: Shake / It's Got The Whole World Shaking