Cooke's Tour

by Sam Cooke

Cooke's Tour cover art

Also arranged by Glenn Osser, the record was constructed as a thematic, geographical concept album exploring international locales through song. It continued the label's concerted, highly orchestrated effort to mold the rhythm and blues star into a sophisticated, middle-of-the-road crooner.

Genres

  • Standards
  • Traditional Pop

Tracklist

  1. Far Away Places
  2. Under Paris Skies
  3. South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)
  4. Bali Ha'I
  5. The Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
  6. Arrivederci, Roma (Goodbye to Rome)
  7. London by Night
  8. Jamaica Farewell
  9. Galway Bay
  10. Sweet Leilani
  11. The Japanese Farewell Song
  12. The House I Live In