Various Artists - Bring It on Home: Black America / Various (CD)

Details: 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:

1. Having a Party (Medley) - the Ovations
2. Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Johnnie Taylor
3. You Send Me - Percy Sledge
4. Shake - Otis Redding
5. The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) - Theola Kilgore
6. I'm Gonna Forget About You - Bobby Womack
7. When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter
8. Bring It on Home to Me - Eddie Floyd
9. That's Heaven to Me - the Soul Stirrers
10. Cupid - R B Greaves
11. Dance What You Wanna - the Miracles
12. I'll Come Running Back to You - Roy Hamilton
13. I'm Alright- Little Anthony and the Imperials
14. Wonderful World - Johnny Nash
15. Love You Most of All - the Persuasions
16. A Change Is Gonna Come - Brenton Wood
17. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - the Flamingos
18. Somebody Have Mercy - Willie Hightower
19. Win Your Love for Me - Lou Rawls
20. The Smile - the Simms Twins
21. Good Times - Aretha Franklin
22. Soothe Me - Sam and Dave
23. Ain't That Good News - the Supremes