Night beat

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Night beat
Sam Cooke studio album

Publication
(s)

1963

Label (s) RCA Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Soul , rhythm & blues

Title (number)

12

running time

about 38 minutes

Night Beat is an album by Sam Cooke from 1963. Stylistically it can be assigned to soul , but echoes of rhythm & blues can also be heard.

title

Sam Cooke is for three of the twelve songs on Night Beat the copyright granted; eight songs are attributed to other songwriters . The album opens with a traditional : 

  1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Traditional)
  2. Lost and Lookin ' (Alexander / Jordan)
  3. Mean Old World ( Cooke )
  4. Please Don't Drive Me Away (Brown / Ervin)
  5. I Lost Everything (Tate)
  6. Get Yourself Another Fool (Tucker / Haywood)
  7. Little Red Rooster ( Dixon )
  8. Laughin 'and Clownin' (Cooke)
  9. Trouble Blues (Brown)
  10. You Gotta Move (Cooke)
  11. Fool's Paradise (Fuller / Geddins / Avid)
  12. Shake, Rattle and Roll ( Calhoun )

admission

Night Beat was recorded on three nights in February 1963 in the studios of RCA (Los Angeles, California, USA). The following musicians were involved in the recordings :

The musical director was René Hall held, produced the album was by Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore ( Hugo & Luigi ), sound engineer was Dave Hassinger.

Publications and releases

Was first published in Night Beat in August 1963 by the label RCA on LP - as a single was Little Red Rooster decoupled ( B-side : You Gotta Move ).

In later years the album was re-released by several labels; also as a CD .

Charts and reception

In the album charts of Billboard reached Night Beat in 1963 as the highest position place 62nd

The Guardian took Night Beat in its list of "1000 albums you must hear before you die" on the grounds that Cooke's voice "never was mesmerizing, as in this quiet and graceful album".

The music database Allmusic lists Night Beat with five out of five possible stars.

Trivia

In the liner notes of Night Beat is Ray Charles quoted as saying: "The real deal. He hits every note exactly where it should be. And he not only hits her, he hits her with feeling. Nobody else sounded like Sam - nobody! "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.discogs.com: Night Beat (release details)
  2. ↑ a b c Sam Cooke: Night Beat (Liner Notes)
  3. ↑ a b www.discogs.com: Night Beat (release details)
  4. ↑ www.discogs.com: Sam Cooke (discography)
  5. ↑ a b www.allmusic.com: Night Beat (review)
  6. ↑ www.theguardian.com: Night Beat (review)