The SAR Records Story - 2 Pack Box Set W/Booklet [Box set]

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For a few years during the early 1960s, Sam Cooke, the man with the golden croon, ran his own small record label, SAR Records. In addition to aiding the career of the post-Cooke Soul Stirrers, SAR unleashed an impressive array of talent--Bobby Womack and the Valentinos, Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers, and a young organist named Billy Preston. The singles they cut for his label are here, alongside unreleased demos from Cooke such as a spare, transporting take of "That's Heaven to Me." Story presents much evidence of the Soul Stirrers' continued greatness with Jimmie Outler as lead singer. And the tracks by R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders are stone groove gospel-soul cuts. Disc 2 presents the secular material, with solid jazz-funk cuts alongside swell pop-soul numbers. To top it all off, the packaging is deluxe, the notes informative, and the remastering first-rate. --Mike McGonigal

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Average customer rating: Possibly the greatest thing ever done in music by anyone at any time....well it is pretty darn incredible Wow, thats really all i can say Yet Another Side of the Man who invented Soul Stunning Stunning

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Tracks:

1. Wade In The Water-Chatter
2. Wade In The Water
3. I'm A Pilgrim
4. Praying Ground
5. Somebody-Chatter
6. Somebody
7. Sometimes
8. Amazing Grace
9. Pass Me Not
10. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep-Chatter
11. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
12. Since I Met The Savior
13. God Is Standing By
14. Lead Me To Calvary-Rehearsal
15. Listen To The Angels Sing
16. Don't Leave Me Alone
17. Stand By Me Father
18. Jesus Be A Fence Around Me
19. Lead Me Jesus
20. Free At Last
21. Looking Back-Chatter
22. Looking Back
23. Born Again
24. Wait On Jesus
25. Time Brings About A Change
26. Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone
27. Yield Not To Temptation-Chatter
28. Yield Not To Temptation
29. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
30. Somewhere There's A God
31. That's Heaven To Me

Tracks:

1. You Send Me-Demo
2. Just For You
3. Somewhere There's A Girl
4. You Were Made For Me
5. When A Boy Falls In Love
6. Soothe Me
7. That's Where It's At-Chatter
8. That's Where It's At
9. Everybody Wants To Fall In Love With You
10. Keep On Loving You
11. I'll Always Be In Love With You
12. Baby, We've Got Love-Chatter
13. Baby, We've Got Love
14. Baby, Lots Of Luck
15. Put Me Down Easy
16. Rome (Wasn't Bulit In A Day)
17. Greazee Part I & II
18. I Gopher You
19. I Gopher You-Chatter
20. You're Always On My Mind
21. I Need Lots Of Love
22. Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong
23. Black Night
24. Damper
25. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
26. Meet Me At The Twisting Place-Chatter
27. Meet At The Twisting Place
28. Good Good Loving
29. The Wobble
30. Lookin' For A Love-Chatter
31. Lookin' For A Love
32. I've Got Love For You
33. I've Got A Girl-Chatter
34. I've Got A Girl
35. Tired Of Loving In The Country
36. It's All Over Now

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For a few years during the early 1960s, Sam Cooke, the man with the golden croon, ran his own small record label, SAR Records. In addition to aiding the career of the post-Cooke Soul Stirrers, SAR unleashed an impressive array of talent--Bobby Womack and the Valentinos, Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers, and a young organist named Billy Preston. The singles they cut for his label are here, alongside unreleased demos from Cooke such as a spare, transporting take of "That's Heaven to Me." Story presents much evidence of the Soul Stirrers' continued greatness with Jimmie Outler as lead singer. And the tracks by R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders are stone groove gospel-soul cuts. Disc 2 presents the secular material, with solid jazz-funk cuts alongside swell pop-soul numbers. To top it all off, the packaging is deluxe, the notes informative, and the remastering first-rate. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Possibly the greatest thing ever done in music by anyone at any time....well it is pretty darn incredible.......2006-03-03

Sam Cooke was a genius. As brilliant and beautiful as his unparalled voice was, he still was able to write and produce some of the most remarkable music(particularly the gospel cd)in black history for other artists. Sam wanted to write, produce, and record other artists. He wanted to take gospel and the gospel sound mainstream. This is a wonderful body of work by an artist who is so sorely underrated and unknown, especially this side of his career. This set features some extremely powerful singing and gorgeous production. A particular artist who stands out here is Jimmie Outler. He became lead singer of The Soul Stirrers after Johnnie Taylor left, who replaced Sam. Jimmie's voice is so powerful and dynamic. He truly defines 'Soul Stirring.'His ability to interpret a lyric while keeping his intense gospel fervor is stunning. R.H. Harris, an inspiration to a young Sam Cooke, is here with a handful of tracks with his new backing team "The Gospel Paraders." I believe R.H. was in his forty's during this period and his falsetto is still earthshattering.(particularly on "Pass Me Not" with its beautiful and carefully arranged guitar intro)........

Wow, thats really all i can say.......2006-01-28

This album is incredible. Even though i'm not particularly religious, but this Gospel is amazing. The first disc, to me, is alot better, just because it is the gospel, and there are no duds. The "chatter" before the songs really add alot to the whole experience, and give you a deeper look into Sam Cookes producing style. My favorite soul album, and completely flawless.

Yet Another Side of the Man who invented Soul.......2005-11-30

Sam Cooke once said that one of the things he wanted to accomplish was that all the singers he recorded had hits. For that reason he started his own recordlabel called SAR. The S for Sam. The A jwAlexander and the r for sR crain.

He produced most of the sessions himself and they have added some fun bits on the CD where Sam is talking to the artists and telling them how to sing and what to do.

CD1 is the gospel part and features himself but also the Soul Stirrers and the Womack Brothers. On CD2 we find them again but this time as The Valentinos. The song everyone will know if "It's all over now" that the Rolling Stones heard and then recorded.

It also features songs he wrote for others and then recorded himself a little later like "That's Where It's At", "Soothe Me", "When A Boy Falls In Love" and "Rome Wasn't Build In A Day".

The production was great because the songs all sound awesome. It really shows yet another side of the man who invented soul. This time the producer and label owner.

Stunning.......2003-08-07

Sam Cooke was an amazing talent in so many ways, and this collection of the music his record company produced during its short five-year existence is further evidence (if more were needed) that his early death was a profound loss. Aside from his extraordinary talents as a singer and a songwriter, Cooke proved himself with SAR records to be a canny businessman and producer. In this regard, he was a pioneer. As Peter Guralnick points out in the introductory remarks in the excellent and thorough booklet that accompanies the set, Cooke's entrepreneurial effort marked one of the earliest occasions when "a prominent black artist was in a position to actually control the means of production."

And control them he did. One of the many pleasures of this collection is that you get to hear some of Cooke's direction to the groups on his label, and he can be both humorous and fierce. "Paul, you weren't watching me, no way," he says to Paul Foster of the Soul Stirrers at one point; but at another he patiently explains to a clearly frustrated Foster what the words of a particular song mean so that, as Foster says, "I can get the sense of it."

Cooke himself made history and has been called "the man who invented soul" (although that title should technically go to Ray Charles) by "crossing over" from the world of gospel, where he was lead singer of the Soul Stirrers, to the world of popular music--a move thought by many in the gospel community to be literally sinful. The set reflects that division, with the first CD devoted to gospel music--including that of the Soul Stirrers, reconstituted with Johnnie Taylor singing Sam's former part--and the second compiled mostly of popular love songs. To my mind, the first disc is far and away the better of the two. I find most of the songs on the second disc fairly forgettable, except the Sam Cooke songs that Sam sang better himself on other occasions. But the first disc is another matter. In fact, aside from the Soul Stirrers albums themselves, and of course Mahalia Jackson, I don't think there's any gospel music I enjoy more. The songs here are varied, moving, lovely. Many of them are powerful enough to bring me to tears. If the first CD alone were the price of the whole set, I'd happily pay it--and then some.

Stunning.......2003-08-07

Sam Cooke was an amazing talent in so many ways, and this collection of the music his record company produced during its short five-year existence is further evidence (if more were needed) that his early death was a profound loss. Aside from his extraordinary talents as a singer and a songwriter, Cooke proved himself with SAR records to be a canny businessman and producer. In this regard, he was a pioneer. As Peter Guralnick points out in the introductory remarks in the excellent and thorough booklet that accompanies the set, Cooke's entrepreneurial effort marked one of the earliest occasions when "a prominent black artist was in a position to actually control the means of production."

And control them he did--one of the many pleasures of this collection is that you get to hear some of Cooke's direction to the groups on his label, and he can be both humorous and fierce. "Paul, you weren't watching me, no way," he says to Paul Foster of the Soul Stirrers at one point; but at another he patiently explains to a clearly frustrated Foster what the words of a particular song me so that, as Foster says, "I can get the sense of it."

Cooke himself made history and has been called "the man who invented soul" (although that title should technically go to Ray Charles) by "crossing over" from the world of gospel, where he was lead singer of the Soul Stirrers, to the world of popular music--a move thought by many in the gospel community to be literally sinful. The set reflects that division, with the first CD devoted to gospel music--including that of the Soul Stirrers, reconstituted with Johnnie Taylor singing Sam's former part--and the second compiled mostly of popular love songs. To my mind, the first disc is far and away the better of the two. I find most of the songs on the second disc fairly forgettable, except the Sam Cooke songs that Sam sang better himself on other occasions. But the first disc is another matter. In fact, aside from the Soul Stirrers albums themselves, and of course Mahalia Jackson, I don't think there's any gospel music I enjoy more. The songs here are varied, moving, lovely. Many of them are powerful enough to bring me to tears. If the first CD alone were the price of the whole set, I'd happily pay it--and then some.

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