Today, I wanna wish a Happy Birthday to the legendary Sam Cooke!!!

If I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would I go?

Fonkyman said:

If I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would I go?

Amazon.com has his stuff. Some are out of print. Get the 4 CD boxset "The Man That Invented Soul" it's a great start. It's available used for only $18.00: http://www.amazon.com/Man...ented+Soul

Check out Cooke's video life story here: http://thewordslinger.com...php?id=206

The Best Male R&B singer of all time IMHO!

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Happy b-day to one of my fav singers!!! Love you Sam!

I always thought that Denzel Washington should have played Sam in a biopic, but I dont know now that he's older but he could def done it when he was younger.

JoeBala said:

Fonkyman said:

If I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would I go?

Amazon.com has his stuff. Some are out of print. Get the 4 CD boxset "The Man That Invented Soul" it's a great start. It's available used for only $18.00: http://www.amazon.com/Man...ented+Soul

Check out Cooke's video life story here: http://thewordslinger.com...php?id=206

The Best Male R&B singer of all time IMHO!

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He was really handsome and so talented <3

Wonder how different the music scene would had been had he lived on?

Happy Birthday Sam!!! God bless you, thanks for the classics and talent

GoldDolphin said:

Happy b-day to one of my fav singers!!! Love you Sam!

I always thought that Denzel Washington should have played Sam in a biopic, but I dont know now that he's older but he could def done it when he was younger.

I agree with this. Denzel really resembles him alot.

One of the greatest voices to ever grace records

Happy birthday, Mr. Sam Cooke !!!!

He was indeed a true talent and legend, he is missed.

Fonkyman said:

If I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would I go?

Every good music collection should have these three:

silverchild said:

Fonkyman said:

If I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would I go?

Every good music collection should have these three:

Ain't That Good News is also essential, imo.

JabarR74 said:

Today, I wanna wish a Happy Birthday to the legendary Sam Cooke!!!

Happy Birthday Sam Cooke!

The greatest singer ever!!! .....period

nuff said

Happy birthday Sam Cooke he was a wonderful man with a heavenly voice.

one of my favourites !

Thanks to everyone for the pointers. He had a voice on him.

So now, if I wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album... I'd know where to go.

You know...what I love about the old R&B singers like Sam Cooke (and Jackie Wilson and Nat King Cole and Little Willie John) is that you always knew immediately who was singing. They all had distinctive voices and styles. And they were all straight-up great singers.

Nowadays, practically everybody sounds alike and they do a lot of vocal embellishments to hide the fact that they couldn't carry a tune in a sack.

Those old guys could sang. Period.

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Genesia said:

You know...what I love about the old R&B singers like Sam Cooke (and Jackie Wilson and Nat King Cole and Little Willie John) is that you always knew immediately who was singing. They all had distinctive voices and styles. And they were all straight-up great singers.

Nowadays, practically everybody sounds alike and they do a lot of vocal embellishments to hide the fact that they couldn't carry a tune in a sack.

Those old guys could sang. Period.

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Very true.

One of the finest singers ever.

Ace said:

One of the finest singers ever.

Yeah, but if you wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would you go?

Fonkyman said:

Ace said:

One of the finest singers ever.

Yeah, but if you wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would you go?

The Wrecka Stow!

Genesia said:

You know...what I love about the old R&B singers like Sam Cooke (and Jackie Wilson and Nat King Cole and Little Willie John) is that you always knew immediately who was singing. They all had distinctive voices and styles. And they were all straight-up great singers.

Nowadays, practically everybody sounds alike and they do a lot of vocal embellishments to hide the fact that they couldn't carry a tune in a sack.

Those old guys could sang. Period.

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Very true! It's a shame that most singers (posers really) sing alike and that's one of the reasons, the album market isn't doing well, because it's better to buy a single anyways. But yeah those guys could sang!! Love Sam & Nat King Cole, some of my inspirations, incredibly gifted singers!

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SimpleSoul said:

a good one