Sam Cooke Night Beat

Personnel: Sam Cooke (vocals); Rene Hall, Barney Kessel, Clifton M. White (guitar); Raymond Johnson (piano); Billy Preston (organ); Clifford Hils (bass); Hal Blaine, Edward J. Hall (drums).Producers: Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore.Reissue producers: Jody Hart Klein, Gregg Geller, Lenne Allik.Recorded at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, California on February 22-23 and 25, 1963. Includes liner notes by Robert Palmer.Personnel: Sam Cooke (vocals); Rene Hall (conductor); Clif White, Barney Kessell (guitar); Raymond Johnson (piano); Billy Preston (organ); Edward Hall(bass, drums); Clifford Hills (bass); Hal Blaine (drums).Producers: Hugo & Luigi.Reissue producer: Paul Williams.Recorded in February 1963. Includes liner notes by Michael Hill.Digitally remastered by Bill Lacey (Digital Sound & Picture, New York, New York).By 1963 Cooke was a big enough star to call his own shots in the studio, and NIGHT BEAT is the result of his desire to make an intimate, artistic album that abandoned po