Bring It On Home Black America / Various Uk- Bring It on Home: Black America / Various (CD)
Black America has been singing Sam Cooke for more than half a century. The volume of great songs that Sam wrote in a secular career spanning barely seven years is matched by the quality of those songs - many of which are fundamental to the evolution of soul music in the early-mid 60s. It's therefore logical and right that Sam should appear in Ace's occasional BLACK AMERICA SINGS series, as he does this month in a package issued close to the 50th anniversary of his death in December 1964. BRING IT ON HOME features some of Sam's best-known songs (as well as - this being Ace - some of his least-known), many performed by artists whose careers Sam helped to get underway, including Johnnie Taylor, the Simms Twins, Mel Carter, and Bobby Womack. Also featured are a number of singers who owe a vocal debt to Sam, including Brenton Wood, R.B. Greaves, Johnny Nash, Otis Redding and Louis Williams of the Ovations.
Tracklist:
- Having a Party (Medley) - the Ovations
- Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Johnnie Taylor
- You Send Me - Percy Sledge
- Shake - Otis Redding
- The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) - Theola Kilgore
- I'm Gonna Forget About You - Bobby Womack
- When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter
- Bring It on Home to Me - Eddie Floyd
- That's Heaven to Me - the Soul Stirrers 1
- Cupid - R B Greaves 1
- Dance What You Wanna - the Miracles 1
- I'll Come Running Back to You - Roy Hamilton 1
- I'm Alright- Little Anthony and the Imperials 1
- Wonderful World - Johnny Nash 1
- Love You Most of All - the Persuasions 1
- A Change Is Gonna Come - Brenton Wood 1
- Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - the Flamingos 1
- Somebody Have Mercy - Willie Hightower 1
- Win Your Love for Me - Lou Rawls 2
- The Smile - the Simms Twins 2
- Good Times - Aretha Franklin 2
- Soothe Me - Sam and Dave 2
- Ain't That Good News - the Supremes
Black America has been singing Sam Cooke for more than half a century. The volume of great songs that Sam wrote in a secular career spanning barely seven years is matched by the quality of those songs - many of which are fundamental to the evolution of soul music in the early-mid 60s. It's therefore logical and right that Sam should appear in Ace's occasional BLACK AMERICA SINGS series, as he does this month in a package issued close to the 50th anniversary of his death in December 1964. BRING IT ON HOME features some of Sam's best-known songs (as well as - this being Ace - some of his least-known), many performed by artists whose careers Sam helped to get underway, including Johnnie Taylor, the Simms Twins, Mel Carter, and Bobby Womack. Also featured are a number of singers who owe a vocal debt to Sam, including Brenton Wood, R.B. Greaves, Johnny Nash, Otis Redding and Louis Williams of the Ovations.
Tracklist:
- Having a Party (Medley) - the Ovations
- Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Johnnie Taylor
- You Send Me - Percy Sledge
- Shake - Otis Redding
- The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) - Theola Kilgore
- I'm Gonna Forget About You - Bobby Womack
- When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter
- Bring It on Home to Me - Eddie Floyd
- That's Heaven to Me - the Soul Stirrers 1
- Cupid - R B Greaves 1
- Dance What You Wanna - the Miracles 1
- I'll Come Running Back to You - Roy Hamilton 1
- I'm Alright- Little Anthony and the Imperials 1
- Wonderful World - Johnny Nash 1
- Love You Most of All - the Persuasions 1
- A Change Is Gonna Come - Brenton Wood 1
- Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - the Flamingos 1
- Somebody Have Mercy - Willie Hightower 1
- Win Your Love for Me - Lou Rawls 2
- The Smile - the Simms Twins 2
- Good Times - Aretha Franklin 2
- Soothe Me - Sam and Dave 2
- Ain't That Good News - the Supremes