Sam CookeBest Sam Cooke Albums Ranked
8.6
Avg Score
28
Opinions
26
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 28 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Sam Cooke’s catalog across 26 albums from 28 opinions, with an overall average of 8.6/10. The top-rated Sam Cooke album is One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985) with a 9.4/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Ain't That Good News and Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1958 to 2020. A Change Is Gonna Come ranks as the highest-rated Sam Cooke song on Rate.fm with a 10.0/10 average.
One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit a monumental artifact of soul—one of the best live albums of all time, from the singer who wrote the 20th century’s defining civil rights anthem.”
Keep Movin' On
“Of all the phases of Sam Cooke’s brief, incandescent career — from his early gospel stardom to his amazing leap into pop and soul that almost single-handedly shoved black music into the future — none is more tantalizing than the recordings he made during his final days. From 1963 until his murder in 1964, Cooke […]”