My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)

My Kind of Blues is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Record producer by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor.

My Kind of Blues
Studio album by Sam Cooke
Released	October 1961
Recorded	May 19–20, 1961
Studio	RCA, New York City
Genre	Rhythm and blues, soul
Length	32:37
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Hugo & Luigi
Sam Cooke chronology
Swing Low (1961) My Kind of Blues (1961) Twistin' the Night Away (1962)

The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of The RCA Albums Collection.

Track listing

All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe.

Side one

1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Bob Russell, Duke Ellington) – 3:10
2. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:55
3. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:20
4. "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:25
5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:29
6. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:05

Side two

1. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 3:10
2. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 3:00
3. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 2:08
4. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 2:55
5. "You're Always on My Mind" (James W. Alexander) – 2:12
6. "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin) – 2:07

Personnel

All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes.^[1]

• Sam Cooke – vocals
• Clifton White, Everett Barksdale – guitar
• George Duvivier, Lloyd Trotman – bass guitar
• Panama Francis – drums
• Morris Wechsler, Ernest Hayes – piano
• Toots Mondello, Reuben Phillips, Seldon Powell, Melvin Tax, Jerome Richardson – saxophone
• Ray Copeland, Steve Lipkins, Lou Oles, Joseph Wilder, John Grimes – trumpet
• Larry Altpeter, Albert Godlis, Frank Saracco, Eddie Bert – trombone
• Sammy Lowe – conductor
• Bob Simpson – recording engineer