Swing Low (album)

Swing Low
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released	February 1961
Recorded	January 25, 1960 ("Chain Gang") September 9–10, 1960
Studio	RCA Victor, New York City
Genre	Rhythm and blues, soul, gospel
Length	36:25
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Hugo & Luigi
Sam Cooke chronology
The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke (1960) Swing Low (1961) My Kind of Blues (1961)
Singles from Swing Low
"Chain Gang" Released: July 26, 1960

Swing Low, also known as Sam Cooke, is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in February 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.^[1] The album includes the hit single "Chain Gang".

The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional) – 3:05
2. "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) – 4:05
3. "They Call the Wind Maria" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:54
4. "Twilight on the Trail" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Louis Alter) – 3:10
5. "If I Had You" (Sam Cooke, James W. Alexander) – 2:20
6. "Chain Gang" (Cooke) – 2:32

Side two

1. "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 3:10
2. "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster) – 3:44
3. "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) – 3:00
4. "Pray" (Johnnie Taylor) – 2:10
5. "You Belong to Me" (Cooke, Alexander) – 2:44
6. "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák, Williams Arms Fisher) – 3:05

Personnel

All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes. The musicians who recorded "Chain Gang", save for Cooke, Clifton White, George Barnes and Glenn Osser, are unknown.^[2]

• Sam Cooke – vocals
• Clifton White, Don Arnone, Everett Barksdale, Al Chernet, George Barnes (on "Chain Gang") – guitar
• Milt Hinton – bass
• Jimmy Crawford, Bunny Shawker – drums
• Hank Jones – piano
• Seldon Powell – saxophone
• Hinda Barnett, Fred Fradkin, Archie Levin, Harry Lookofsky, Ben Miller, David Nadien, Sylvan Shulman – violin
• George Ricci – cello
• Al Brown – viola
• Steve Lipkins, Leon Marian – trumpet
• Henderson Chambers, Albert Godlis, Frank Saracco – trombone
• Sammy Lowe – conductor
• Glenn Osser – conductor on "Chain Gang”
• Bob Simpson – recording engineer

Notes

External links

• Songs of Sam Cooke: Main Page

This page was last edited on 29 January 2024, at 10:03