Artist: Sam Cooke
Author: L.C. Cooke
Label: Keen
Year: 1957
Specialty boss Art Rupe rejected this whole session (Summertime version and all) and sold it to Keen Records, a label around the corner. There it became n°1 US & R&B. The real composer was Sam, but since he owed Specialty another 8 sides, he credited his brother.
Covers:
Teresa Brewer [imitating Sam's version note for note]
Cornell Gunther [pre Coasters]
Rod Stewart [in medley with Bring It On Home]
Clif White's comment, the guitarist on this original remembering the moment Sam first demonstrated it: "I thought it was the most ridiculous song I ever heard in my life. Simply because it wasn't saying anything. I mean, he just kept on singing, 'you send me', and I thought he was out of his fucking mind. I said, 'when is the song gonna start? I thought he was lost. I said, Hell, I think he forgot the words to his song". (from Peter Guralnick's
Sam Cooke biography Dream Boogie - The Triumph Of Sam Cooke (Little, Brown & company).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)