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Night Beat is the tenth studio album by American singer Sam Cooke, released in August 1963 by RCA Victor. The album title originated from late-night recording sessions by Cooke and a quartet of studio musicians in February 1963. It has been featured in "best-of" lists by contemporary music critics and regarded as one of Cooke's best.
The Unforgettable Sam Cooke "Let's Go Steady Again" "Trouble Blues" 97 — — — — — — — Hit Kit Night Beat "Meet Me at Mary's Place" "If I Had a Hammer" — — — — — — — — Ain't That Good News Sam Cooke at the Copa "The Last Mile of the Way" "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone" [C] 1970 — — — — — — — — The ...
Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931 (he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life). [11] [12] He was the fifth of eight children of Rev. Charles Cook, a Baptist minister in the Church of Christ (Holiness), and the former Annie Mae Carroll.
Little Red Rooster" is included on Cooke's 1963 album Night Beat, which reached number 62 on the Billboard 200 album chart. [39] It also appears on several Cooke compilation albums, including Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964, which was released in 2003. [40]
Night Beat or Nightbeat may refer to: Night Beat, a film directed by George B. Seitz; Night Beat, a film directed by Harold Huth; Night Beat (Sam Cooke album), 1963; Night Beat (Hank Crawford album), 1989; Night Beats, an American psychedelic/garage rock band; Night Beat (U.S. radio program) Nightbeat (Transformers) a Transformers character
In 1963, he played the organ on Sam Cooke's Night Beat album and released his debut album, 16 Yr. Old Soul, for Cooke's SAR label. [6] In 1965, he released the album The Most Exciting Organ Ever and performed on the rock and roll show Shindig!
In 1962, RCA Victor decided it was time for Cooke to record a live album, and a warm January night at the Harlem Square Club in Miami was picked to record. The Harlem Square Club was a small downtown nightspot in Miami's historically African-American neighborhood of Overtown, and was packed with the singer's most devoted fans from his days singing gospel. [5]
This was Cooke's second-biggest American hit, his first hit single for RCA Victor after leaving Keen Records earlier in 1959, and was also his first top 10 hit since "You Send Me" from 1957, and his second-biggest pop single. The song was inspired after a chance meeting with an actual chain gang of prisoners on a highway, seen while Cooke was ...