Sam Cooke (album)
# Sam Cooke (album)

Sam Cooke is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on Keen Records in early 1958. The backing band is the Bumps Blackwell Orchestra.

## Track listing

### Side 1

* "You Send Me" (Sam Cooke, originally credited to L.C. Cook) – 2:41
* "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 2:31
* "Tammy" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:30
* "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:39
* "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:40
* "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 2:57

### Side 2

* "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin) – 2:25
* "Around the World" (Harold Adamson, Victor Young) – 1:58
* "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks) – 2:05
* "The Bells of St. Mary" (A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber) – 2:17
* "So Long" (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) – 2:38
* "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) – 2:16
* "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 2:19

## Personnel

On "You Send Me" and "Summertime"

* Clifton White, René Hall – guitar
* Ted Brinson – bass guitar
* Earl Palmer – drums
* Lee Gotch, The Pied Pipers – backing vocals

## Charts

### Weekly charts

| Chart (1958) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| Billboard Top LPs | 16 |
