Mercury Records Collection: MGB-24001: L.C. Cooke Sings The Great Years Of Sam Cooke

MGB-24001: L.C. Cooke Sings The Great Years Of Sam Cooke

Label Type :	red Blue Rock (with blue logo) type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 24001A M1 RR
	SIDE-B	MG 24001B M1 RR

Comments

Equivalent release: Blue Rock SRB-64001 (stereo).

writing on back cover, and drilled hole thru the cover and the label.

Inside The Groove

The only leader album by L.C. Cooke (Sam Cooke's younger brother), who was also famous that he was creditted as a composers with Sam Cooke.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

This is L.C. Cooke's only leader album. He started his singing career back in 1930s with his brother Sam and sisters, then after Sam was recruited into the Soul Stirrers, he spend underrated years as a members of the Magnificients, and as a solo singer.

His most unfortunate talent was that his voice resembles his brother's voice. For example on this album, L.C sings eleven tracks (which are all famous songs by Sam Cooke) with Al Smith's band, but most people may realize that this LP sounds as if Sam Cooke himself singing his own songs when his physical condition is so bad (or even with runny nose & drunk)...

Anyway, this LP may be very important and interesting in various aspects. If L.C. recorded another LP or two with different styles from Sam Cooke, he would have achieved a fair amount of applause, but he did not.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

6 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	1-35403	That's Where It's At (S. Cooke)	4:14
A-2	1-35405	Win Your Love For Me (L.C. Cooke)	3:02
A-3	1-35401	Bring It On Home To Me (S. Cooke)	3:30
A-4	1-35409	Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (S. Cooke)	2:27
A-5	1-35406	Let The Good Times Roll (S. Cooke)	2:28
A-6	1-35408	Cupid (S. Cooke)	2:48
SIDE-B
B-1	1-35404	You Send Me (L.C. Cooke)	2:23
B-2	1-35400	Wonderful World (B. Campbell)	2:31
B-3	1-35402	Twisting The Night Away (L.C. Cooke)	2:26
B-4	1-35407	Love In My Heart (L.C. Cooke - N. Nathan)	1:59
B-5	1-35399	That's Heaven To Me (L.C. Cooke)	3:47

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

L.C. Cooke (vo) with orchestra conducted by Al Smith (members unknown).
Recorded in 1965 (recorded place and exact date unknown).

Arranged by Johnny Boyd and Charles Hanley.
Produced by Andre Williams.