My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)

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My Kind of Blues
My Kind of Blues Sam Cooke.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1961
RecordedMay 19–20, 1961
Studio RCA, New York City
Genre Rhythm and blues, soul
Label RCA Victor
Producer Hugo & Luigi
Sam Cooke chronology
Swing Low
(1961)
My Kind of Blues
(1961)
Twistin' the Night Away
(1962)

My Kind of Blues is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Record producer by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.

Contents

The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.

Track listing

All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe.

Side one

  1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Bob Russell, Duke Ellington) – 3:10
  2. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:55
  3. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:20
  4. "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:25
  5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:29
  6. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:05

Side two

  1. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 3:10
  2. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 3:00
  3. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 2:08
  4. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 2:55
  5. "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander) – 2:12
  6. "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin) – 2:07

Personnel

All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes. [1]

Notes

  1. The RCA Albums Collection (liner notes). Sam Cooke. US: RCA Records/Legacy Recordings. 2011. 88697898702.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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