“Tribute To The Lady - Billie Holiday” by Sam Cooke - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1959Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s

TJR says

Sam’s third album for Keen Records, issued in April 1959. The concept looks good on paper; one soulful African American pays tribute to another. The reality says differently; sophisticated jazz ballad tedium for middle of the road bores. Count me out…

The Jukebox Rebel
28–Jul–2008

Tracklist
A1 [02:35] 3.9.png Sam Cooke - God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) Crooner / Cabaret
A2 [01:50] 4.5.png Sam Cooke - She’s Funny That Way (Neil Moret, Richard Whiting) Crooner / Cabaret
A3 [02:32] 4.7.png Sam Cooke - I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) Jazz
A4 [02:05] 4.3.png Sam Cooke - Good Morning, Heartache (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher) Jazz
A5 [02:27] 5.5.png Sam Cooke - T Aint Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do) (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) Jazz
A6 [02:27] 6.6.png Sam Cooke - Comes Love (Lew Brown, Charles Tobias, Sammy Stept) Jazz
B1 [02:26] 4.7.png Sam Cooke - Lover Girl (Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman, Roger Ramirez) Jazz
B2 [02:22] 3.6.png Sam Cooke - Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Jazz
B3 [02:10] 3.9.png Sam Cooke - Lover Come Back To Me (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) Jazz
B4 [02:23] 3.7.png Sam Cooke - Solitude (Edward Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) Jazz
B5 [02:29] 3.7.png Sam Cooke - They Can’t Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Jazz
B6 [02:33] 4.0.png Sam Cooke - Crazy She Calls Me (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) Crooner / Cabaret

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