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Sam Cookes 1959 salute to Billie Holiday, Tribute to The Lady, covers a select group of songs made famous by the immortal jazz singer known as Lady Day. Classics include God Bless The Child, I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues, Good Morning, Heartache and Crazy She Calls Me. Sam Cooke found his voice not by imitating popular singers but weaving his own interpretation of songs made notable by others.

Writer Michael Corcoran refers to this collection as an essential look at how Sam Cooke found his voice:
Like Lady Day, Sam had a pretty voice too honest to be cute, sending the words on paper through a spiritual journey before coming out of a mouth fluent in both sorrow and triumph. But he didnt sing songs her way.

As with every recording, Sam Cooke put every note in a place all his own.