“Tribute To The Lady - Billie Holiday” by Sam Cooke - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1959 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s |
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]  Sam Cooke - God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A2 | [01:50]  Sam Cooke - She’s Funny That Way (Neil Moret, Richard Whiting) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A3 | [02:32]  Sam Cooke - I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) Jazz |
| A4 | [02:05]  Sam Cooke - Good Morning, Heartache (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher) Jazz |
| A5 | [02:27]  Sam Cooke - T Aint Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do) (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins) Jazz |
| A6 | [02:27]  Sam Cooke - Comes Love (Lew Brown, Charles Tobias, Sammy Stept) Jazz |
| B1 | [02:26] Sam Cooke - Lover Girl (Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman, Roger Ramirez) Jazz |
| B2 | [02:22]  Sam Cooke - Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Jazz |
| B3 | [02:10] Sam Cooke - Lover Come Back To Me (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) Jazz |
| B4 | [02:23]  Sam Cooke - Solitude (Edward Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) Jazz |
| B5 | [02:29] Sam Cooke - They Can’t Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Jazz |
| B6 | [02:33]  Sam Cooke - Crazy She Calls Me (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) Crooner / Cabaret |
