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Sam Cooke at the Copa was a frustrating record. One of a handful of live albums by a major soul artist of its era, it captured Cooke in excellent voice, and was well-recorded -- it just wasn't really a "soul" album, except perhaps in the tamest possible definition of that term. Playing to an upscale, largely white supper-club audience, in a very conservatively run venue where he had previously failed to impress either patrons or the management, Cooke toned down his performance and chose the safest material with which he could still be comfortable. In place of songs like "Feel It," "Bring It on Home to Me," or even "Cupid," which were part of his usual set, he performed numbers like "The Best Things in Life Are Free," "Bill Bailey," and "When I Fall in Love" here. True, his renditions may be the versions of any of those songs that an R&B fan will like best, but they always seemed a poor substitute for what's not here -- not just the songs that he didn't do, but the intense, sweaty presentation, as much a sermon as a concert, the pounding beat, and the crowd being driven into ever-more frenzied delight.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Sam Cooke, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
B. G. DE SYLVA, ComposerLyricist - Sam Cooke, MainArtist - Ray Henderson, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
James Cox, ComposerLyricist - Sam Cooke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 ABKCO Records Inc.
PETE SEEGER, ComposerLyricist - Lee Hays, ComposerLyricist - Sam Cooke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist - Victor Young, ComposerLyricist - Edward Heyman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Abkco Music & Records, Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist - Not Available, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Sam Cooke, MainArtist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Sam Cooke, MainArtist - Redd Stewart, ComposerLyricist - Peewee King, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 ABKCO Records Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Sam Cooke at the Copa was a frustrating record. One of a handful of live albums by a major soul artist of its era, it captured Cooke in excellent voice, and was well-recorded -- it just wasn't really a "soul" album, except perhaps in the tamest possible definition of that term. Playing to an upscale, largely white supper-club audience, in a very conservatively run venue where he had previously failed to impress either patrons or the management, Cooke toned down his performance and chose the safest material with which he could still be comfortable. In place of songs like "Feel It," "Bring It on Home to Me," or even "Cupid," which were part of his usual set, he performed numbers like "The Best Things in Life Are Free," "Bill Bailey," and "When I Fall in Love" here. True, his renditions may be the versions of any of those songs that an R&B fan will like best, but they always seemed a poor substitute for what's not here -- not just the songs that he didn't do, but the intense, sweaty presentation, as much a sermon as a concert, the pounding beat, and the crowd being driven into ever-more frenzied delight.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:24
- Main artists: Sam Cooke
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2003 Abkco Music & Records, Inc. ℗ 2003 Abkco Music & Records, Inc.
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