DESCRIPTION This 4 CD bookset is essential to fans of Sam Cooke, despite the fact that it contains none of his gospel recordings or any of the work from the final year of his career.
Scattered every few minutes across this four-disc collection are reminders of just how far ahead of all existing musical forms Cooke was, creating sounds that stretched the definitions of song genres as they were understood and created completely new categories. Indeed, he was so successful that it’s easy to underestimate the impact and importance of many of his early triumphs. “You Send Me,” which opens this set, may seem today like the safest, tamest pop music, but in 1957 it was a genre-bending single, a new kind of R&B/pop music hybrid and one that quietly shook the foundations of the music business when it hit number one. In addition to his world- famous own compositions “You Send Me,” “Only Sixteen,” “Cupid,” “Wonderful World”, he also sang songs by Gershwin (Summertime), Willie Dixon (Little Red Rooster) and Jimmie Cox (Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out).
The development of Cooke’s writing and singing and his growing confidence and range culminate.
 Disc 4 is the Night Beat album and Cooke’s live performance from the Harlem Square Club. The sound is extraordinary throughout, expansive, rich-textured, and vividly detailed. CD1
You Send Me
Summertime (Pt. 1)
For Sentimental Reasons
Desire Me
Lonely Island
You Were Made for Me
Win Your Love for Me
Love You Most of All
Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
No One Can Take Your Place
Only Sixteen
With You
Crazy She Calls Me
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
Comes Love
Ain't Nobody's Business
Little Things You Do
There, I've Said It Again
When I Fall in Love
Let's Go Steady Again
(What A) Wonderful World
CD2
Chain Gang
I Belong To Your Heart
Teenage Sonata
Love Me
Sad Mood
If I Had You (Id Be Happy)
You Belong To Me
Sad Mood
Tenderness
Thats It I Quit Im Movin On
Hold On
Cupid
Tenderness
Dont Get Around Much Any More
Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out
Baby Wont You Please Come Home
Trouble In Mind
Out In The Cold Again
Exactly Like You
Since I Met You Baby
Im Just a Lucky So and So
But Not For Me
Youre Always On My Mind
(Dont Fight It) Feel It
Its All Right
Twistin the Night Away
One More Time
Dont Cry On My Shoulder
CD3
Somebodys Gonna Miss Me
Somebody Have Mercy
Sugar Dumpling (Original Version)
Nothin Can Change This Love Alternate Version
Talkin Trash
Movin and Groovin
Soothe Me
Having a Party
Bring It On Home to Me
A Whole Lotta Woman
Im Gonna Forget About You
Nothin Can Change This Love
Baby, Baby, Baby
Send Me Some Lovin
All the Way
Smoke Rings
I Wish You Love
Driftin Blues
Little Girl
Cry Me A River
These Foolish Things
Frankie And Johnnie
I Aint Gonna Cheat On You No More
Another Saturday Night
Love Will Find A Way
Cool Train
CD4
Nobody Knows the Trouble Ive Seen
Lost and Lookin
Mean Old World
Please Dont Drive Me Away
I Lost Everything
Get Yourself Another Fool
Little Red Rooster
Laughin and Clownin
Trouble Blues
You Gotta Move
Fools Paradise
Shake, Rattle And Roll
Intro/(Dont Fight It) Feel It
Chain Gang
Cupid
Its All Right/For Sentimental Reasons
Twistin The Night Away
Somebody Have Mercy
Bring It On Home To Me
Nothin Can Change

SOUTHBOUND