Product Identifiers
ProducerRene Hall, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Lou Adler, Sam Cooke, Al Schmitt, Hugo, Luigi, Art Rupe
Record LabelAbkco Records
UPC0018771926429
eBay Product ID (ePID)8050200496
Product Key Features
Era1960s, 1950s
Run Time4748 Sec
FeaturesCompilation, Studio Recording
GenrePop, Soul, R&B & Soul
TypeAlbum
StyleSpiritual, Black Gospel, Early R&B
ArtistSam Cooke
Release TitlePortrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Guest ArtistBobby Womack, Lou Rawls, Billy Preston
DistributionUniversal Distribution
Number of Tracks31
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
BassMilt Hinton, Frank Fields, James E. Bond, Clifford Hils, Ted Brinson, Adolphus Alsbrook Jr., Red Callender, Chuck Badie, Ray Pohlman, Eddie Tilman, Harper Cosby
GuitarBob King, Barney Kessel, Rene Hall, Clifton White, Bobby Womack, Everett Barksdale, Howard Roberts, Leroy Crume, Joseph R. Gibbons, Norman Bartold, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, John Pisano, Ulysses Livingston, Edgar Blanchard, George Collier, William Pitman
EngineerGus Skinas, Al Schmitt, David Hassinger, Dino Lappas
Additional InformationExcellent career retrospective that includes every essential hit and summarizes the scope of this soul's great historic talent.
ReviewsRanked #106 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "Cooke invented soul music, and his gospel-rooted vocal style, with its swooping transitions from silk to sandpaper, is one of the most influential of the last half-century..."
VocalsLou Rawls
PercussionEddie Hall, Julius Wechter, Frank Capp, Hal Blaine, Emil Radocchia
DrumsCharles Blackwell, Eddie Hall, Ronald Selico, John Boudreaux, Albert "June" Gardner, Frank Capp, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, Panama Francis
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo