The discography of Sam Cooke, an African-American recording artist, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, consists of fifteen studio albums (including one collaborative album and two notable posthumous releases), two live albums, and numerous compilations. Over the course of his eight-year career, Cooke placed 29 singles in the Top 40 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. He also placed 20 singles in the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B chart, Black Singles chart. Between 1957 and 1960, Sam Cooke's records were produced on the Keen label. From 1960 through 1966, they were produced on the RCA label.

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Ownership of Cooke's material is split between RCA (roughly 1958–1963) and ABKCO (post-1963), with each label releasing their own compilations and rarely cross-licensing (The Man and His Music and Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964 being the two exceptions). As a result, few of Cooke's original albums saw individual release on the medium of compact disc, and, consequently, digital distribution, although all of Cooke's recorded work has been released either in compilation or box set.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Posthumous studio albums[edit]

Live albums[edit]

Collaboration albums[edit]

Compilation albums[edit]

Numerous compilation albums and greatest hits collections of Cooke's work have been released, notably Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964 in 2003. This list compiles the most notable compilation releases from major labels. Many cross-licensed compilations from smaller labels (most of which contain Cooke's gospel work with the Soul Stirrers) are not represented here.

Box sets[edit]

Singles[edit]

Posthumous singles[edit]

Notes

1. ^The single 'Blue Moon'/'Love You Most of All' was reissued one month following its initial release on the same catalog number, with the A and B sides switched.
2. ^ ^abThrough a period between late 1963 and early 1965, Billboard did not publish an R&B singles chart.
3. ^This release is credited to Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers.

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Sam Cooke – One Night Stand: Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985/2005/2016)FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz Time – 38:56 minutes 950 MB Genre: SoulStudio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HighResAudio.com Front Cover © RCA/LegacyLive at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 is the second live album by the American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The album was released in June 1985 in the United States by RCA Records. Initially recorded to be released as a live album entitled One Night Stand, the concert at the Harlem Square club (in Miami’s historically African American neighborhood of Overtown) was not released until 1985.

RCA Victor, at the time, viewed the album as too gritty and raw and possibly damaging to his pop image, and quietly kept the recordings in their archive. The album is generally considered among the best live albums by contemporary music critics, and has been ranked in “best-of” music lists, including on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Three mixes of the record exist: the 1985 issue, a version included on the 2000 box set The Man Who Invented Soul, and a 2005 remaster from RCA.Not only is this one of the greatest live soul albums ever released, it also reveals a rougher, rawer, and more immediate side to Sam Cooke that his singles only hinted at, good as they were. Working with a merged band that included guitarist Cliff White and drummer Albert “June” Gardner from Cooke’s regular touring outfit and saxophonist King Curtis and his band, Cooke brings a gospel fervor to these whirlwind versions, which are fiery, emotionally direct, and hit with uncommon power. Every track burns with an insistent, urgent feel, and although Cooke practically defines melisma on his single releases, here he reaches past that into deeper territory that finds him almost literally shoving and pushing each song forward with shouts, asides, and spoken interactions with the audience, which becomes as much a part of this set as any bandmember. “Chain Gang” is stripped down to a raw nerve, “Twistin’ the Night Away” explodes out of the gate like a runaway rocket, and Curtis’ sax breaks on “Somebody Have Mercy” make it sound like the saxophone was invented for this one song alone. Throughout Cooke’s voice is a raspy laser that makes it obvious what Rod Stewart picked up from this recording, and it is impossible not to hear Cooke’s voice looming behind Stewart’s once you’ve heard this amazing live set.

Although recorded January 12, 1963, at the Harlem Square Club in Miami in 1963, RCA didn’t release it as an album until 1985. The set was remixed from the original first generation three-track tape for 2000’s The Man Who Invented Soul box, and while the music (and Cooke’s vocals in particular) sounded much cleaner, much of the crowd noise from the 1985 mixes was toned down, robbing the recording of some of its claustrophobic, frenzied power. The mix used here seems to more or less split the difference, but the crucial key is and was always Cooke’s vocals, and while he was a marvelously smooth, versatile, and urbane singer on his official pop recordings, here he explodes into one of the finest sets of raw secular gospel ever captured on tape. It is essential listening in any version.Tracklist:01 – Soul Twist / Introduction02 – Feel It (Don’t Fight It)03 – Chain Gang04 – Cupid05 – Medley: It’s All Right / For Sentimental Reasons06 – Twistin’ The Night Away07 – Somebody Have Mercy08 – Bring It on Home to Me09 – Nothing Can Change This Love10 – Having a PartyDownload:or.