Sam Cooke on ‘The Ed Sullivan Present’ Picture: Steve Oroz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photographs
Late in 1957, Sam Cooke was making his followers swoon. The sleek, trendy pop of “You Send Me” had simply been No.1, and was about to unfold Cooke’s identify internationally, early in 1958.
In an explosion of exercise on the US charts, he additionally charted in November with George Gershwin’s “Summertime,” then once more within the week earlier than Christmas with the double-sided “I’ll Come Running Back To You” and “Forever.” Then, on December 30, 1957, he entered Billboard’s Finest Sellers In Shops chart with one more hit, “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons.”
The tune had its origins on the finish of World Struggle II, when the writing credit have been assigned to Ivory “Deek” Watson and William “Pat” Finest, founder members of the Ink Spots and the 4 Tunes respectively. Later, it was judged that Finest had written “Reasons” on his personal. It was first recorded by one other group during which Watson featured, the Brown Dots, after which there have been hit variations recorded by Eddy Howard, Dinah Shore and Charlie Spivak. However essentially the most well-known one within the pre-rock’n’roll period was by Nat King Cole, who took it to No.1 in 1946.
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Cooke’s model was very a lot in the identical fashion as his “You Send Me” smash, with shut harmonies behind his authoritative and suave lead vocals. “Cooke revives the old Nat King Cole hit…in easy-going, salable style,” wrote Billboard’s evaluate. After opening at No.50 on that final chart of 1957, his single would go as excessive as No.17, whereas the B-side, “Desire Me,” made a displaying in its personal proper, at No.47.
Subsequently, Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells recorded their model of “Reasons” for the Collectively album, and there have been different 60s covers by John Leyton, the Righteous Brothers and José Feliciano. Later interpretations got here from Rufus Thomas, Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Cole, B.B. King, and numerous others.
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