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. 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 "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional) – 3:05 "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) – 4:05 "They Call the Wind Maria" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:54 "Twilight on the Trail" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Louis Alter) – 3:10 "If I Had You" (Sam Cooke, James W. Alexander) – 2:20 "Chain Gang" (Cooke) – 2:32
Side two "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 3:10 "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster) – 3:44 "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) – 3:00 "Pray" (Johnnie Taylor) – 2:10 "You Belong to Me" (Cooke, Alexander) – 2:44 "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. 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
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