Portrait of a Legend Limited edition

Sam Cooke

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Portrait of a Legend Limited edition

Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 is the career-spanning 31 track collection of music pioneer Sam Cooke's greatest works. This essential collection contains recordings from Cooke's gospel and early R&B career as well as his pop/soul hits from the SAR, Specialty and RCA labels and has combined them with the peak of his career on his own label, Tracey Records.

o 30 incredible tracks including You Send Me; Chain Gang; Shake; Twistin' the Night Away; Little Red Rooster; (What a) Wonderful World; Another Saturday Night; Cupid; Only Sixteen; A Change Is Gonna Come; Having a Party, and more career highlights. Indispensable!

o 80 minutes of music - all his essential hits, providing a major overview of a career that has left an everlasting mark on American music that remains indelible today more than 50 years after Cooke's untimely death.

o The songs included in Sam Cooke: Portrait Of A Legend collectively logged 273 weeks or five years and three months on Billboard's Pop Chart and a mind-boggling 508 weeks (nine years and nine months) on the Pop and R&B charts, combined.

o Features comprehensive liner notes by renowned author Peter Guralnick as well as detailed musician credits.

.. LEGEND / 180GR. TRANSPARENT CLEAR VINYL