My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)

My Kind of Blues
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released October 1961
Recorded May 19–20, 1961
RCA Victor's Studio A
(New York City)
Genre Rhythm and blues, soul
Label RCA Victor
Producer Hugo & Luigi
Sam Cooke chronology

Swing Low
(1961)		 My Kind of Blues
(1961)		 Twistin' the Night Away
(1962)

My Kind of Blues is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.

The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.

Track listing

All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe.

Side one

  1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Bob Russell, Duke Ellington)  – 3:10
  2. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)  – 2:55
  3. "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" (Jimmie Cox)  – 3:20
  4. "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koeler, Rube Bloom)  – 2:25
  5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)  – 2:29
  6. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)  – 2:05

Side two

  1. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Ellington, Mack David)  – 3:10
  2. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)  – 3:00
  3. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams)  – 2:08
  4. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones)  – 2:55
  5. "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander)  – 2:12
  6. "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin)  – 2:07

Personnel

All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes.[1]

  • Sam Cooke – vocals
  • Clifton White – guitar
  • Everett Barksdale – guitar
  • George Duvivier – bass guitar
  • Lloyd Trotman – bass guitar
  • Panama Francis – drums
  • Morris Wechsler – piano
  • Ernest Hayes – piano
  • Nunzio “Toots” Mondello – saxophone
  • Reuben Phillips – saxophone
  • Seldon Powell – saxophone
  • Melvin Tax – saxophone
  • Jerome Richardson – saxophone
  • Ray Copeland – trumpet
  • Steve Lipkins – trumpet
  • Lou Oles – trumpet
  • Joseph Wilder – trumpet
  • John Grimes – trumpet
  • Larry Altpeter – trombone
  • Albert Godlis – trombone
  • Frank Saracco – trombone
  • Eddie Bert – trombone
  • Sammy Lowe – conductor
  • Bob Simpson – recording engineer

Notes

  1. ↑ The RCA Albums Collection (liner notes). Sam Cooke. US: RCA Records/Legacy Recordings. 2011. 88697898702.

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