The Noiseboy Online

If you haven’t invited Sam Cooke into your life yet, then you are being foolish. This is, in my humble opinion, his best album and a departure from the pop music he hitched his wagon to early in his recording career. Recorded over the course of three nights in February 1963, Night Beat is a return to Sam’s roots. It is also, not surprisingly, one of the best late-night albums available to mankind. Check out Sam’s version of this standard. When the piano comes in, I get weak in the knees.

Sam Cooke — “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”