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Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, ... In 1961, Cooke started his own record label, SAR Records, with J. W. Alexander and his manager, Roy Crain. [41]
SAR Records was a record company founded by soul music legend Sam Cooke in 1961.The meaning of "SAR" has been disputed; it has been listed as "Sam & Alex Records" [1] (J.W. Alexander was Cooke's business, song-writing associate, and friend) and also as "Sam, Alex, & Roy Records" [2] (Roy being S. R. Crain, Cooke's mentor from his Soul Stirrers days, as well as his pop road manager).
Between 1957 and 1960, Sam Cooke's records were produced on the Keen label. From 1960 through 1966, they were produced on the RCA label. Ownership of Cooke's material is split between RCA (roughly 1958–1963) and ABKCO (post-1963), with each label releasing their own compilations and rarely cross-licensing ( The Man and His Music and Portrait ...
ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. (Allen & Betty Klein Company) is an American independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company.It owns and/or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, Dishwalla, the Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway label, which includes recordings by such artists as Chubby ...
Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964 is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released posthumously on June 17, 2003, by ABKCO Records.The disc covers Cooke's entire career, from his early 1950s beginnings with the Soul Stirrers to the posthumous 1964 single "Shake".
Meanwhile, he launched his own SARS Records label and publishing company in 1961 in an attempt to own and control his music, a proto-Swiftian move that – alongside Berry Gordy’s Motown label ...
Label: Keen: Sam Cooke chronology; ... The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released by Keen Records in ...
Hugo and Luigi had previously worked together from the late 1950s for a number of labels, including Mercury, Roulette, and RCA Victor, where they were involved with acts such as Elvis Presley, the Tokens, and Sam Cooke. Levine was the head of Avco Embassy Pictures following a long career in the film industry.