Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (2014)

01. Touch the Hem of His Garment
02. Lovable
03. You Send Me
04. Only Sixteen
05. For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You)
06. Just For You
07. Win Your Love For Me
08. Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
09. I'll Come Running Back to You
10. You Were Made For Me
11. Sad Mood
12. Cupid
13. Wonderful World, (What A)
14. Chain Gang
15. Summertime
16. Little Red Rooster             play
17. Bring It on Home to Me      play
18. Nothing Can Change This Love
19. Sugar Dumpling
20. Good News, (Ain't That)
21. Meet Me at Mary's Place
22. Twistin' the Night Away
23. Shake
24. Tennessee Waltz
25. Another Saturday Night
26. Good Times
27. Having a Party
28. That's Where It's At
29. Change Is Gonna Come, A
30. Jesus Gave Me Water

Some 46 years after his first pop hit, and 39 years after his death, comes only the second attempt at a comprehensive Sam Cooke collection. Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 eclipses RCA's early-'80s The Man and His Music, going it better in running time but losing some important recordings -- "That's Heaven to Me" and "Soothe Me," arguably one of Cooke's most important songs -- in the process of summing up his career. From 1951's Soul Stirrers' gospel classic "Touch the Hem of His Garment" through to 1964's "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Shake," we get highlights of Cooke's career presented in state-of-the-art digital audio; superior in every way possible to the audio quality of The Man and His Music. What's more, this is a hybrid disc with SACD capability, and the sound on that layer is almost as much of a jump above the quality on the CD layer as this remastering is from the old The Man and His Music disc; and either the standard CD or the SACD playback makes that 1980s-issued compilation sound faint and anemic. There's also annotation here -- which was totally lacking on the earlier CD -- by Peter Guralnick, which delves very effectively into the background of each song. And the producers have taken the trouble to be a little inventive in the programming -- it would have been easy enough to follow a strict chronological approach, but instead the disc opens and closes with tracks that reveal Cooke's gospel roots, which is pretty much where his music started and where it ended up, bookending his first hit with songs from his first session ever. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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