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Sam Cooke was the most important soul singer in history — he was also the inventor of soul music, and its most popular and beloved performer in both the black and white communities. Equally important, he was among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of the music business, and founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. Yet, those business interests didn't prevent him from being engaged in topical issues, including the struggle over civil rights, the pitch and intensity of which followed an arc that paralleled Cooke's emergence as a star — his own career bridged gaps between black and white audiences that few had tried to surmount, much less succeeded at doing, and also between generations; where Chuck Berry or Little Richard brought black and white teenagers together, James Brown sold records to white teenagers and black listeners of all ages, and Muddy Waters got young white folkies and older black transplants from the South onto the same page, Cooke appealed to all of the above, and the parents of those white teenagers as well — yet he never lost his credibility with his core black audience. In a sense, his appeal anticipated that of the Beatles, in breadth and depth.

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16. Swing Low	17. My Kind of B..	18. Twistin' the..	19. Mr. Soul	20. Cooke's Tour

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	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Change Is Gonna Come	30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cook..	3:11	$1.29
2.	Bring It On Home to Me	Greatest Hits	2:43	$1.29
3.	Wonderful World	Greatest Hits	2:05	$1.29
4.	You Send Me	Greatest Hits	2:42	$1.29
5.	Cupid	Greatest Hits	2:35	$1.29
6.	Twistin' the Night Away	Greatest Hits	2:41	$0.99
7.	Another Saturday Night	30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cook..	2:40	$0.99
8.	Having a Party	Greatest Hits	2:35	$0.99
9.	Chain Gang	Greatest Hits	2:40	$0.99
10.	Change Is Gonna Come	Ain't That Good News (R..	3:11	$1.29
11.	Nothing Can Change This Love	Greatest Hits	2:37	$0.99
12.	(What A) Wonderful World	Man Who Invented Soul	2:05	$1.29
13.	You Send Me	Man Who Invented Soul	2:42	$1.29
14.	Good Times	30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cook..	2:26	$1.29
15.	Only Sixteen	Greatest Hits	2:14	$0.99
16.	Change Is Gonna Come	Change Is Gonna Come - EP	3:11	$1.29
17.	(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons	Greatest Hits	2:38	$0.99
18.	That's Where It's At	30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cook..	2:35	$1.29
19.	Shake	30 Greatest Hits - Sam Cook..	2:50	$1.29
20.	You Send Me	Early Years. Sam Cooke	2:44	$0.99
21.	Chain Gang	Man Who Invented Soul	2:39	$0.99
22.	Summertime Pt. 1	Man Who Invented Soul	2:21	$0.99
23.	Frankie and Johnny	Greatest Hits	2:44	$0.99
24.	That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin..	Greatest Hits	2:37	$0.99
25.	Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha	Greatest Hits	2:41	$0.99

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