50年代後半から60年代前半にかけて最も人気のあったシンガーで「Only Sixteen」「Mona Lisa」「Wonderful World」など間違いない名曲を収録。さらにヒット曲「Chain Gang」「Cupid」「Sad Mood」や、1962年に録音された 「Twisting The Night Away 」はモータウン・サウンドの古典となった。また彼の死後に発表された 「A Change is Gonna Come 」は、60年代から70年代にかけてのアフリカ系アメリカ人公民権運動で最も頻繁に演奏されたプロテスト・ソングのひとつである。
[Disc 1] ["SONGS BY SAM COOKE" (1957)] 1. You Send Me (Cooke) 2. The Lonesome Road (Austin / Shilkret) 3. Tammy (Livingston / Evans) 4. Ol' Man River (HammersteinII / Kern) 5. Moonlight in Vermont (Blackburn / Suessdorf) 6. Canadian Sunset (Gimbel / Heywood) 7. Summertime (Heyward / Gershwin) 8. Around the World (Adamson / Young) 9. Ain't Misbehavin' (Razaf / Brooks / Waller) 10. The Bells of St. Mary's (Furber / Adams) 11. So Long (Morgan / Harris / Melsher) 12. Danny Boy (Weatherly) 13. That Lucky Old Sun (Gillespie / Smith) [BONUS TRACKS] 14. I'll Come Running Back to You (Cook) 1957 (The SOUL STIRRERS) 15. Forever (Tyler) 1957 (DALE COOKE) 16. Lovable (Cook / Harris) 1957 (DALE COOKE) 17. That's All I Need To Know (Cooke / Cook) 1957 (The SOUL STIRRERS) 18. I Don't Want To Cry (Cooke / Cook) 1957 (The SOUL STIRRERS)
[Disc 2] ["ENCORE" (1958)] 1. Oh Look At Me Now (Deveries / Bushkin) 2. Someday (Hodges) 3. Along the Navaho Trail (Charles / Marks / DeLange) 4. Running Wild (Gibbs / Grey / Wood) 5. Accentuate the Positive (Mercer / Arlen) 6. Mary Mary Lou (Mangiaracina) 7. When I Fall In Love (Felden) 8. I Cover the Waterfront (Green / Heyman) 9. My Foolish Heart (Martin / Ward / Brown) 10. Today I Sing the Blues (White / Lewis) 11. The Gypsy (Reid) 12. It's the Talk of the Town (Livingston / Symes / Neiburg) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. Love Song from "Houseboat" (Livingston / Evans) 1958 14. I Need You Now (Cooke) 1958 (The SOUL STIRRERS) 15. Happy In Love (Cooke / Cook) 1958 (The SOUL STIRRERS) 16. One Hour Ahead Of the Posse (Charig / Golden) 1959
[Disc 3] ["TRIBUTE TO THE LADY" (1959)] 1. God Bless the Child (Herzog) 2. She's Funny That Way (Daniels / Whiting) 3. I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues (Arlen / Koehler) 4. Good Morning Heartache (Fisher / Drake / Higginbotham) 5. T'Aint Nobody's Bizness (If I Do) (Williams / Grainger / Prince) 6. Comes Love (Brown / Stept / Tobias) 7. Lover Girl (Man) (Davis / Ramireg / Sherman) 8. Let's Call the Whole Thing off (Gershwin / Gershwin) 9. Lover Come Back To Me (Romberg / Hammerstein) 10. Solitude (DeLange / Ellington / Mills) 11. They Can't Take That Away From Me (Gershwin / Gershwin) 12. Crazy in Love with You (Benton / Otis) ["HIT KID" (1959)] 13. Only Sixteen (Cooke) 14. All of My Life (Cooke) 15. Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha (Campbell / Campbell / Cooke) 16. Blue Moon (Rodgers / Hart) 17. Win Your Love for Me (Cooke) 18. Lonely Island (Ahbez) 19. You Send Me (Cooke) 20. Love You Most of All (Cooke) 21. For Sentimental Reasons (Cooke / Best) 22. The Little Things You Do (Alexander) 23. Let's Go Steady Again (Alexander) 24. You Were Made For Me (Cooke)
[Disc 4] ["HITS OF THE 50s" (1960)] 1. Hey There (Adler / Ross) 2. Mona Lisa (Livingston / Evans) 3. Too Young (Dee / Lippman) 4. The Great Pretender (Ram) 5. You You You (Olias / Mellin) 6. Unchained Melody (Zaret / North) 7. The Wayward Wind (Lebowsky / Newman) 8. Secret Love (Webster / Fain) 9. The Song from Moulin Rouge (Auric / Engvic) 10. I'm Walking Behind You (Reid) 11. Cry (Kohlman) 12. Venus (Marshall) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. Ee-Yi-Ee-Yi-Oh (Cooke) 1959 14. Teenage Sonata (Barry) 1959 15. If You Were the Only Girl (Mendelssohn) 1959 16. You Understand Me (Peretti) 1959
[Disc 5] ["COOKE'S TOUR" (1960)] 1. Far Away Places (Whitney / Kramer) 2. Under Paris Skies (Giraud / Drejac / Gannon) 3. South Of the Border (Down Mexico Way) (Kennedy / Carr) 4. Bali Ha'i (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 5. The Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) (Hilliard / Miles) 6. Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye to Rome) (Sigman / Rascel) 7. London by Night (Coates) 8. Jamaica Farewell (Burgess) 9. Galway Bay (Colahan) 10. Sweet Leilani (Owens) 11. The Japanese Farewell Song (Morgan / Yoshida) 12. The House I Live In (Robinson / Allan) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. I Belong To Your Heart (Brel / Sigman) 1959 14. Deep River (Cooke) 1960 15. I Fall In Love Every Day (Clark) 1960
[Disc 6] ["THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SAM COOKE" (1960)] 1. Wonderful World (Alpert / Adler / Cooke) 2. Desire Me (Culver) 3. Summertime (Heyward / Gershwin) 4. Almost in Your Arms (Livingston / Evans) 5. That's Heaven to Me (Cooke) 6. With You (Berlin) 7. Blue Moon (Rodgers / Hart) 8. Stealing Kisses (Brooks) 9. You Were Made For Me (Cooke) 10. There I've Said It Again (Evans / Mann) 11. I Thank God (Brunson) [BONUS TRACKS] 12. Sad Mood (Cooke) 1960 13. Steal Away (Cooke) 1960 14. So Glamorous (Smith) 1960 15. What Do You Say (Ferguson / Ferguson / DeVorzon) 1960
[Disc 7] ["SC - SAM COOKE" (1960)] 1. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Traditional) 2. I'm Just a Country Boy (Brooks / Barer) 3. They Call the Wind Maria (Lerner) 4. Twilight on the Trail (Alter / Mitchell) 5. If I Had You (Cooke) 6. Chain Gang (Cooke) 7. Grandfather's Clock (Work) 8. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster) 9. Long Long Ago (Bayly) 10. Pray (Taylor / Bernod) 11. You Belong To Me (Cooke) 12. Goin' Home (Dvorak) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. Love Me (Young) 1960 14. Cupid (Cooke) 1960 15. One More Time (Cooke) 1961 16. Farewell My Darling (Sullivan) 1961
[Disc 8] ["MY KIND OF BLUES" (1961)] 1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Russell / Ellington) 2. Little Girl Blue (Rodgers / Hart) 3. Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out (Cox) 4. Out in the Cold Again (Koehler / Bloom) 5. But Not For Me (Gershwin / Gershwin) 6. Exactly Like You (Fields / McHugh) 7. I'm Just A Lucky So-and-So (Ellington / David) 8. Since I Met You Baby (Hunter) 9. Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Warfield / Williams) 10. Trouble in Mind (Jones) 11. You're Always On My Mind (Alexander) 12. The Song Is Ended (Berlin) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. Just For You (Cooke) 1961 14. Having a Party (Cooke) 1962 15. Somebody Have Mercy (Cooke) 1962 16. Nothing Can Change This Love (Cooke) 1962
[Disc 9] ["TWISTIN' THE NIGHT AWAY" (1962)] 1. Twistin' the Night Away (Cooke) 2. Sugar Dumpling (Cooke) 3. Twistin' in the Kitchen with Dinah (Cooke) 4. Somebody's Gonna Miss Me (Brown / Reeves) 5. A Whole Lotta Woman (Alexander / Jordon) 6. The Twist (Ballard) 7. Twistin' in the Old Town Tonight (David) 8. Movin' and A-Groovin' (Cooke / Rawls) 9. Camptown Twist (Cooke) 10. Somebody Have Mercy (Cooke) 11. Soothe Me (Cooke) 12. That's It - I Quit - I'm Moving On (Alfred / Serino) [BONUS TRACKS] 13. Bring It on Home to Me (Cooke) 1962 14. Baby Baby Baby (Cooke) 1962 15. Send Me Some Lovin' (Price / Marascalco) 1962
[Disc 10 : BONUS TRACKS - THE ORIGINAL SOUL STIRRERS - SAM COOKE - JOHNNIE TAYLOR - R. H. HARRIS - PAUL FOSTER] 1. Jesus Gave Me Water (Campbell) 1951 2. Peace in the Valley (Dorsey) 1951 3. I'm Gonna Build Right on That Shore (Crain) 1951 4. Just another Day (Cooke) 1952 5. He's My Friend `Til the End (Bradford) 1954 6. Jesus I'll Never Forget (Crain) 1954 7. Any Day Now (Wagoner / Butler) 1954 8. Nearer To Thee (Cooke) 1955 9. One More River (Cleveland) 1955 10. The Last Mile of the Way (Tradirional) 1955 11. Touch the Hem of His Garment (Cooke) 1956 12. He's So Wonderful (Davis / Frye) 1956 13. Jesus Wash Away My Troubles (Cooke) 1956 14. Farther Along (Traditional) 1956
