Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 (2 LP, 2003, Gatefold, ABKCO)

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Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 (Double LP, 2003, Gatefold, ABKCO).

Open but never played and in Near Mint condition! The compilation is generally considered the most complete and comprehensive collection of Cooke's work. It has been included on various "best-of" lists by music publications, including Rolling Stone and Time.

Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964 is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released posthumously on June 17, 2003, by ABKCO Records. The disc covers Cooke's entire career, from his early 1950s beginnings with the Soul Stirrers to the posthumous 1964 single "Shake". The collection includes most of the singer's hit singles, including "You Send Me", "Wonderful World", "Chain Gang", "Cupid", "Twistin' the Night Away", "Bring It On Home to Me", "Another Saturday Night", "Little Red Rooster", "Ain't That Good News", "Good Times", and what is often regarded as Cooke’s magnum opus, "A Change Is Gonna Come".

All tracks are written by Sam Cooke, except where noted.

No. Title Writer Length

1. "Touch the Hem of His Garment" 2:01

2. "Lovable"

Cooke Tony Harris

2:24

3. "You Send Me" 2:43

4. "Only Sixteen" 2:02

5. "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons"

Derek Watson William Best

2:38

6. "Just for You" 2:19

7. "Win Your Love for Me" L.C. Cook 2:46

8. "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" 2:45

9. "I'll Come Running Back to You" William "Bill" Cook 2:13

10. "You Were Made for Me" 2:53

11. "Sad Mood" 2:39

12. "Cupid" 2:36

13. "(What a) Wonderful World"

Cooke Lou Adler Herb Alpert

2:05

14. "Chain Gang"

Cooke Charles Cook Jr.

2:34

15. "Summertime"

George Gershwin Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward

2:20

16. "Little Red Rooster" Willie Dixon 2:52

17. "Bring It On Home to Me" 2:42

18. "Nothing Can Change This Love" 2:37

19. "Sugar Dumpling" 2:43

20. "(Ain't That) Good News" 2:28

21. "Meet Me at Mary's Place" 2:41

22. "Twistin' the Night Away" 2:41

23. "Shake" 2:50

24. "Tennessee Waltz"

Pee Wee King Redd Stewart

3:09

25. "Another Saturday Night" 2:40

26. "Good Times" 2:27

27. "Having a Party" 2:35

28. "That's Where It's At"

Cooke J. W. Alexander

2:35

29. "A Change Is Gonna Come" 3:11

30. "Jesus Gave Me Water" Lucie Campbell 2:29

Total length: 79:08

There is an additional track containing a segment of an interview by Magnificent Montague from 1963 in which Sam Cooke hums a few bars.

All credits adapted from the disc's liner notes.[8]

Sam Cooke – vocals, producer

Michael Gochanour – analog to digital transfers

Rick Essig – analog to digital transfers

Teri Landi – analog to digital transfers

Ben Bailes – assistant engineer

Matt Boynton – assistant engineer

Tom Camuso – assistant engineer

Jimmie Haskell – arrangement, conducting

René Hall – arrangement, conducting, guitar, producer

Alisa Coleman-Ritz – art direction

Iris W. Keitel – art direction

April Hobbs – art production coordinator

Seth Adkins – art production coordinator

Laura Walton – audio production coordinator

Alicia Adams – backing vocals

Betty Baker – backing vocals

Betty Jane Barker – backing vocals

Carol Lee Lombard – backing vocals

Charles Parlato – backing vocals

Doreen Tryden – backing vocals

Jack Halloran – backing vocals

Jackie Ward – backing vocals

James Bryant – backing vocals

J.J. Farley – backing vocals

Jimmie Outler – backing vocals

Lee Gotch – backing vocals

Loulie Jean Norman – backing vocals

Lou Rawls – backing vocals

Paul Foster – backing vocals

R.B. Robinson – backing vocals

Ralph Brewster – backing vocals

Richard Gibbs – backing vocals

Robert Tebold – backing vocals

Sally Stevens Castle – backing vocals

S.R. Crain – backing vocals

Sue Allen – backing vocals

Thomas D. Kenny – backing vocals

Thomas L. Bruster – backing vocals

Adolphus Alsbrook – bass guitar

Chuck Badie – bass guitar

Clifford Hils – bass guitar

Eddie Tilman – bass guitar

Frank Fields – bass guitar

Harper Cosby – bass guitar

James Bond – bass guitar

Milton Hinton – bass guitar

Ray Pohlman – bass guitar

Red Callender – bass guitar

Ted Brinson – bass guitar

Jack Costanza – bongos

Armand Kaproff – cello

Cecil Figelski – cello

Emmet Sargeant – cello

Frederick Seykora – cello

Jesse Ehrlich – cello

Joseph Coppin – cello

Leanne Allik – conception

Glen Osser – conductor

Sammy Lowe – conductor

Angelo Tillery – cover illustration

Hiroyuki Komuro – DSD assistant

Gus Skinas – DSD

Charles Blackwell – drums

David Francis – drums

Earl Palmer – drums

John Boudreaux – drums

June Gardner – drums

Ronald Selico – drums

Edward Hall – drums, percussion

Frank Capp – drums, percussion

Hal Blaine – drums, percussion

Julius Wechter – drums, percussion

Al Schmitt – engineer

Dave Hassinger – engineer

Dick Bogart – engineer

Dino Lapis – engineer

Barney Kessel – guitar

Bob King – guitar

Bobby Womack – guitar

Clifton White – guitar

Edgar Blanchard – guitar

George Barnes (musician) – guitar

Everett Barksdale – guitar

Glen Campbell – guitar

Howard Roberts – guitar

John Pisano – guitar

LeRoy Crume – guitar

Norman Bartold – guitar

Tommy Tedesco – guitar

Ulysses Livingston – guitar

William Pitman – guitar

Joseph Gibbons – guitar, banjo

William Hinshaw – French horn

Peter J. Howard – legal

Peter Guralnick – liner notes

Hillary Putnam – manufacturing

Kenneth Silinsky – manufacturing

Emil Radocchia – marimba, timpani, percussion

Bob Ludwig – mastering

Billy Preston – organ

Jess Rand – photography

Edward Beal – piano

Ernest Freeman – piano

Ernie Hayes – piano

Harold Battiste – piano

Raymond Johnson – piano

Russell Bridges – piano

Warren Myles – piano

Al Schmitt – producer

Art Rupe – producer

Hugo & Luigi – producer

Lou Adler – producer

Bumps Blackwell – producer

Jody H. Klein – reissue producer

Teri Landi – reissue producer

Joe Parker – sales

Red Tyler – saxophone

Edgar Redmond – saxophone

Jewell Grant – saxophone

John Kelsom – saxophone

Plas Johnson – saxophone

William Green – saxophone

Maria Papazahariou – session research

Steve Rosenthal – sound restoration

David Wells – trombone

John Ewing – trombone

Louis Blackburn – trombone

Anthony Terran – trumpet

John Anderson – trumpet

Melvin Lastie – trumpet

Stuart Williamson – trumpet

Lawrence Bunker – vibraphone

Allan Harshman – viola

Alexander Neiman – viola

Harry Hyams – viola

Irving Weinper – viola

Samuel Boghossian – viola

Wilbert Nuttycombe – viola

Ambrose Russo – violin

Alfred Brown – violin

Archie Levin – violin

Arnold Belnick – violin

Ben Miller – violin

Charles Libove – violin

Darrel Terwilliger – violin

David Nadien – violin

Elliot Fisher – violin

Fred Fradkin – violin

Gareth Nuttycombe – violin

Harold Dickterow – violin

Harry Lookofsky – violin

Hinda Barnet – violin

Irving Lipschultz – violin

Isadore Roman – violin

Israel Baker – violin

John DeVoogdt – violin

Joseph Saxon – violin

Leonard Malarsky – violin

Marshall Sosson – violin

Marvin Limonick – violin

Max Cahn – violin

Myron Sandler – violin

Ralph Schaeffer – violin

Robert Barene – violin

Sidney Sharp – violin

Tibor Zelig – violin

William Kurasch – violin