Bring It On Home: Black America / Various Bring It On Home: Black America / Various CD

Black America has been singing Sam Cooke for more than half a century. The volume of great songs that Sam wrote in a secular career spanning barely seven years is matched by the quality of those songs - many of which are fundamental to the evolution of soul music in the early-mid 60s. It's therefore logical and right that Sam should appear in Ace's occasional BLACK AMERICA SINGS series, as he does this month in a package issued close to the 50th anniversary of his death in December 1964. BRING IT ON HOME features some of Sam's best-known songs (as well as - this being Ace - some of his least-known), many performed by artists whose careers Sam helped to get underway, including Johnnie Taylor, the Simms Twins, Mel Carter, and Bobby Womack. Also featured are a number of singers who owe a vocal debt to Sam, including Brenton Wood, R.B. Greaves, Johnny Nash, Otis Redding and Louis Williams of the Ovations.

1. Having a Party (Medley) - the Ovations 2. Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) - Johnnie Taylor 3. You Send Me - Percy Sledge 4. Shake - Otis Redding 5. The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) - Theola Kilgore 6. I'm Gonna Forget About You - Bobby Womack 7. When a Boy Falls in Love - Mel Carter 8. Bring It on Home to Me - Eddie Floyd 9. That's Heaven to Me - the Soul Stirrers 10. Cupid - R B Greaves 11. Dance What You Wanna - the Miracles 12. I'll Come Running Back to You - Roy Hamilton 13. I'm Alright- Little Anthony and the Imperials 14. Wonderful World - Johnny Nash 15. Love You Most of All - the Persuasions 16. A Change Is Gonna Come - Brenton Wood 17. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - the Flamingos 18. Somebody Have Mercy - Willie Hightower 19. Win Your Love for Me - Lou Rawls 20. The Smile - the Simms Twins 21. Good Times - Aretha Franklin 22. Soothe Me - Sam and Dave 23. Ain't That Good News - the Supremes