My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)

My Kind of Blues
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Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released	October 1961
Recorded	May 19–20, 1961 RCA Victor's Studio A (New York City)
Genre	Rhythm and blues, soul
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Hugo & Luigi
Sam Cooke chronology
Swing Low (1961)Swing Low1961 My Kind of Blues (1961) Twistin' the Night Away (1962)Twistin' the Night Away1962

My Kind of Blues is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.

The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.

Track listing

All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe.

Side one

1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Bob Russell, Duke Ellington)  – 3:10
2. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)  – 2:55
3. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox)  – 3:20
4. "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom)  – 2:25
5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)  – 2:29
6. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)  – 2:05

Side two

1. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David)  – 3:10
2. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)  – 3:00
3. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams)  – 2:08
4. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones)  – 2:55
5. "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander)  – 2:12
6. "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin)  – 2:07

Personnel

All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes.

• Sam Cooke – vocals
• Clifton White – guitar
• Everett Barksdale – guitar
• George Duvivier – bass guitar
• Lloyd Trotman – bass guitar
• Panama Francis – drums
• Morris Wechsler – piano
• Ernest Hayes – piano
• Nunzio "Toots" Mondello – saxophone
• Reuben Phillips – saxophone
• Seldon Powell – saxophone
• Melvin Tax – saxophone

• Jerome Richardson – saxophone
• Ray Copeland – trumpet
• Steve Lipkins – trumpet
• Lou Oles – trumpet
• Joseph Wilder – trumpet
• John Grimes – trumpet
• Larry Altpeter – trombone
• Albert Godlis – trombone
• Frank Saracco – trombone
• Eddie Bert – trombone
• Sammy Lowe – conductor
• Bob Simpson – recording engineer

External links

• Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page