Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wade in the Water (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
2. Wade in the Water - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
3. I'm a Pilgrim - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
4. Praying Ground - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
5. Somebody (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
6. Somebody - Sam Cooke, R.H. Harris
7. Sometime - Sam Cooke, R.H. Harris
8. Amazing Grace - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
9. Pass Me Not - Sam Cooke, R.H. Harris
10. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
11. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
12. Since I Met the Savior - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
13. God Is Standing By - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
14. Lead Me to Calvary [Rehearsal] - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
15. Listen to the Angels Sing - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
16. Don't Leave Me Alone - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
17. Stand by Me Father - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
18. Jesus Be a Fence Around Me - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
19. Lead Me Jesus - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
20. Free at Last - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
21. Looking Back (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
22. Looking Back - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
23. Born Again - Sam Cooke, R.H. Harris
24. Wait on Jesus - Sam Cooke, R.H. Harris
25. Time Brings About a Change - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
26. Must Jesus Bear This Cross Alone? - Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers
27. Yield Not to Temptation (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
28. Yield Not to Temptation - Sam Cooke, Womack Brothers
29. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - Sam Cooke, Womack Brothers
30. Somewhere There's a God - Sam Cooke, Womack Brothers
31. That's Heaven to Me - Sam Cooke

Disc 2:

1. You Send Me [#][Demo Version] - Sam Cooke
2. Just for You - Sam Cooke
3. Somewhere There's a Girl [#] - Sam Cooke
4. You Were Made for Me - Sam Cooke
5. When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter, Sam Cooke
6. Soothe Me - Sam Cooke
7. That's Where It's At (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
8. That's Where It's At - Sam Cooke, The Sims Twins
9. Everybody Wants to Fall in Love - Sam Cooke
10. Keep on Loving You [#] - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
11. I'll Always Be in Love With You - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
12. Baby, We've Got Love (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
13. Baby, We've Got Love - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
14. Baby, Lots of Luck - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos
15. Put Me Down Easy - Sam Cooke
16. Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
17. Greazee, Pts. 1 & 2 - Sam Cooke, Billy Preston
18. I Gopher You (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
19. I Gopher You - Sam Cooke, The Sims Twins
20. You're Always on My Mind - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Morisette
21. I Need Lots of Love - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
22. Don't Throw Your Love on Me So Strong - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Morisette
23. Black Night - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Morisette
24. Damper - Sam Cooke
25. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide) - Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor
26. Meet Me at the Twisting Place (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
27. Meet Me at the Twisting Place - Sam Cooke
28. Good Good Loving - Sam Cooke, The Sims Twins
29. Wobble - L.C. Cooke, Sam Cooke
30. Lookin' for a Love (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
31. Lookin' for a Love - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos
32. I've Got Love for You - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos
33. I've Got a Girl (Chatter) - Sam Cooke
34. I've Got a Girl - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos
35. Tired of Living in the Country - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos
36. It's All Over Now - Sam Cooke, The Valentinos

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40541 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com essential recording
For a few years during the early 1960s, Sam Cooke, the man with the golden croon, ran his own small record label, SAR Records. In addition to aiding the career of the post-Cooke Soul Stirrers, SAR unleashed an impressive array of talent--Bobby Womack and the Valentinos, Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers, and a young organist named Billy Preston. The singles they cut for his label are here, alongside unreleased demos from Cooke such as a spare, transporting take of "That's Heaven to Me." Story presents much evidence of the Soul Stirrers' continued greatness with Jimmie Outler as lead singer. And the tracks by R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders are stone groove gospel-soul cuts. Disc 2 presents the secular material, with solid jazz-funk cuts alongside swell pop-soul numbers. To top it all off, the packaging is deluxe, the notes informative, and the remastering first-rate. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Great collection of seldom-heard gospel & soul music
If you are at all interested in gospel and/or soul music, buy this set. Nearly every song is perfect, but "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" by the Womack Brothers (disc 1) and "That's Where It's At" by the Simms Twins (disc 2) by themselves justify the price.

That sounded nice.
This 2 CD set collects highlights from the SAR Records vault. This record label was co-owned by Sam Cooke. In addition to being the owner, Sam also wrote and produced many of the records. Disc One features gospel songs and Disc Two features secular material. Some of the songs are preceded by bits of studio dialogue where Sam explains to the performers how he wants them to sing. Most of the songs are quite good, although not as good as Sam's own versions of the same songs, when they exist. This is a very nice collection, but some Sam Cooke fans may be disappointed that there are only a few songs performed by Cooke himself.

Wow, thats really all i can say
This album is incredible. Even though i'm not particularly religious, but this Gospel is amazing. The first disc, to me, is alot better, just because it is the gospel, and there are no duds. The "chatter" before the songs really add alot to the whole experience, and give you a deeper look into Sam Cookes producing style. My favorite soul album, and completely flawless.