Sam Cook

"you really cannot go wrong with ANYTHING Sam Cooke recorded"

agree 100%, but what CD release(s) have the best sound quality in a decent audio system? I'm not setup for vinyl playback )O:

Any of the RCA Living Stereo material should sound pretty good-I have most of them on vinyl. Some of Sam's RCA stereo material is, unfortunately, Dynagroove (such as Night Beat). Perhaps the engineers "removed" the negatives associated with Dynagrrove when they remastered the tapes for CD.

Actually ... Sam Cooke's catalog was re-released in hybrid SACD format a few years back. Pretty decent sound quality.

See this link

Best regards,

Rich

anything by Mr. Cook is great !!!!!!

Second the live album recorded in Miami. Much rawer R & B sound geared to a black audience.

The RCA albums were watered down to make Sam "cross the line" and court a white audience. Great vocals but the backing musicians were very safe.