My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)

My Kind of Blues
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) My Kind of Blues (1961) Twistin' the Night Away (1962)

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.^[1]

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

Notes

1. The RCA Albums Collection (liner notes). Sam Cooke. US: RCA Records/Legacy Recordings. 2011. 88697898702.

External links

• Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page