Sam Cooke - Night Beat (w/ guest Randy W. Hall)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Joining Brian and Bill to discuss Sam Cooke's landmark and influential Night Beat (1963, RCA) is Randy W. Hall, cohost of our podcast kin That Dandy Classic Music Hour (thatdandyclassicmusichour.com). Night Beat found Sam Cooke enjoying the benefits of his restructured contract, exercising his right to choose his own backing band, go into a studio, show off his skills as the father of soul, and put together one of the first purposely crafted albums. Randy talks about playing hooky from school and heading to his local record shop to discover the reissue of Night Beat on the shelf and then just being blown away when he put it on in his car. Bill, Brian, and Randy discuss the birth of soul, Motown vs. Stax, Cooke's conversational style, Sam's voice being out front, Dylan covering "Freebird," Barney Kessel's excellent guitar work, Billy Preston's excellent organ interplay with Ray Johnson's piano, the unfortunate circumstances of Sam Cooke's death, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I got a little red rooster too lazy to crow for day
0:19.0	I got a crow for day.
0:24.6	I got a little red rooster too lazy to crow for day.
0:28.6	He keeps everything in the barnyard
0:34.6	upset in every way.
0:39.9	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Bill.
0:43.4	And I'm Brian.
0:44.4	And what we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:46.4	Little Red Rooster by Sam Cook from 1963's album, Nightbeat.
0:51.9	If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week, and actually,
0:56.5	if you have listened to the podcast before, you're probably getting tired of me saying that.
0:59.7	But if you haven't listened to it before, this is for you, you buddy.
1:04.0	You, all the nubes.
1:05.5	You, Tim, that listening for the first time.
1:08.7	Yeah, Tim.
1:09.6	One day I'm going to find someone named Tim who's going to list.
1:12.1	This is going to be their first episode.
1:13.6	It's going to be amazing.
1:14.7	People call me Tim?
1:19.1	So if you've never listened to the podcast before, Tim, what we do here every week is take
1:23.5	a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
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