SAM COOKE Ain't That Good News ORIGINAL 1964 *STEREO* Nr MINT
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205
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272
£ 205
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Sep 20, 2012
Sold Date
Sep 10, 2012
Start Date
£ 24
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Great Britain
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SAM COOKE Ain't That Good News ORIGINAL 1964 *STEREO* Nr MINT
CLEAN, CRISP SLEEVE, DYNAGROOVE PRESS, ORIGINAL INNER
SAM COOKEAin't That Good News
US RCA VICTOR (LSP 2899) FIRST *STEREO* DYNAGROOVE PRESSING (March 1964) OF SAM COOK'S "Ain't That Good News"
LOVELY ORIGINAL COPY - WONDERFUL SOUND QUALITY THROUGHOUT - PRACTICALLY FLAWLESS PLAYBACK
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE *DYNAGROOVE* RCA VICTOR LABELS
MATRIX NUMBERS: R3RS - 0784 - 3S / R3RS - 0785 - 3S
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL HEAVY GUAGE FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE WITH PASTED ON BACK PANEL (Manufactured by Tracey Limited)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL RCA ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE
The last of his studio albums released in his lifetime, Sam Cooke's Ain't That Good News offers a lot of superb material, pointing in several directions that, alas, were to go largely unexplored.
The central number is, of course, the earth-shattering "A Change Is Gonna Come," with its soaring gospel sound and the most elaborate production of any song in Cooke's output.
The rousing though less substantial title track also came out of a gospel tradition, as does Cooke's treatment of "Tennessee Waltz," which is one of his finest adaptations of contemporary pop material. "Falling in Love" was the work of Harold Battiste, an old friend of Cooke's who had recently re-entered his orbit and was partly responsible for encouraging the singer in exploring the New Orleans sound that was evident on "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" and "Meet Me at Mary's Place." And then there's "Good Times," a bittersweet, introspective party number, and the pensive successor to "Twistin' the Night Away."
There are a few moments where the spell is almost broken by the intrusion of what seems like pop material, but even Cooke's version of "The Riddle Song" is worth owning, as a glimpse of how he could turn a folk song into a something so quietly soulful that its origins disappeared.
With the exception of "Another Saturday Night," which had been released as a single early in the previous year, Ain't That Good News comprised the first material that Cooke had recorded in the six months following the drowning death of his 18-month-old son Vincent; it was also the first album that Cooke recorded and released under his new RCA contract, which gave him greater freedom in choosing repertory and sidemen than he'd ever had, and so it offered a lot of pent-up emotional and musical expression, and, as it turned out, was tragically unique in the singer's output.
Side One:
Ain't That Good News (2:28)
Meet Me At Mary's Place (2:40)
Good Times (2:25)
Rome Wasn't Built In A Day (2:30)
Another Saturday Night (2:27)
Tennessee Waltz (3:10)
Side Two:
A Change Is Gonna Come (3:10)
Falling In Love (2:40)
Home (2:27)
Sittin' In The Sun (3:12)
No Second Time (3:00)
The Riddle Song (2:28)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean and unmarked labels with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
BUT unmarked - apart from the common pressing blemishes present on North American records of the period - these have no audio consequence
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT+
My play-check at loud volume revealed pretty much flawless sound - crisp, clear and bright with just a couple of soft ticks on Side Two (nothing I found at all intrusive) otherwise, superb
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Practically like-new - exceptionally clean and crisp with just a touch of corner wear and some light black spotting on the back which appears to be a printing issue (please see close-up photo)
INNER SLEEVES: EXCELLENT+
No splits - just some age related discolouration
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