Swing Low (album)

Swing Low, also known as Sam Cooke, is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in February 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor. The album includes the hit single "Chain Gang".

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

Side one

 * 1) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional) – 3:05
 * 2) "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) – 4:05
 * 3) "They Call the Wind Maria" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:54
 * 4) "Twilight on the Trail" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Louis Alter) – 3:10
 * 5) "If I Had You" (Sam Cooke, James W. Alexander) – 2:20
 * 6) "Chain Gang" (Cooke) – 2:32

Side two

 * 1) "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 3:10
 * 2) "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster) – 3:44
 * 3) "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) – 3:00
 * 4) "Pray" (Johnnie Taylor) – 2:10
 * 5) "You Belong to Me" (Cooke, Alexander) – 2:44
 * 6) "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák, Williams Arms Fisher) – 3:05

Personnel
All credits adapted from The RCA Albums Collection (2011) liner notes. The musicians who recorded "Chain Gang", save for Cooke, Clifton White, George Barnes and Glenn Osser, are unknown.
 * Sam Cooke – vocals
 * Clifton White, Don Arnone, Everett Barksdale, Al Chernet, George Barnes (on "Chain Gang") – guitar
 * Milt Hinton – bass
 * Jimmy Crawford, Bunny Shawker – drums
 * Hank Jones – piano
 * Seldon Powell – saxophone
 * Hinda Barnett, Fred Fradkin, Archie Levin, Harry Lookofsky, Ben Miller, David Nadien, Sylvan Shulman – violin
 * George Ricci – cello
 * Al Brown – viola
 * Steve Lipkins, Leon Marian – trumpet
 * Henderson Chambers, Albert Godlis, Frank Saracco – trombone
 * Sammy Lowe – conductor
 * Glenn Osser – conductor on "Chain Gang”
 * Bob Simpson – recording engineer