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LP " Ain't That Good News " RCA Victor Records 1964
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credits:
Written-By – Sam Cooke
Guitar: Norman Bartold, LeRoy Crume, Barney Kessel, John Pisano,
Allan Reuss, Howard Roberts, Clifton White
Bass: Peter Badie, Buddy Clark, Clifford Hils, Ray Pohlman, Eddie Tilman
Banjo: Joseph Gibbons
Piano: Harold Battiste, Ray Johnson, Lincoln Mayorga
Drums: Hal Blaine, John Boudreaux, Edward Hall, Earl Palmer
Percussion: Linwood Mitchell, Emil Richards
Saxophone: Jewell Grant, William Green, Plas Johnson, Edgar Redmond, Red Tyler
French horn: William Hinshaw
Violin & viola: Israel Baker, Robert Barene, Arnold Belnick, John DeVoogdt, Harry Hyams,
William Kurasch, Irving Lipschultz, Leonard Malarsky, Alexander Neiman,
Jack Pepper, Ralph Schaeffer, Sid Sharp,
Darrell Terwilliger, Tibor Zeli
Cello: Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant
Trumpet: John Anderson, Melvin Lastie
Trombone: Milt Bernhart, Harry Betts, Louis Blackburn, Streamline Ewing,
John Halliburton, Ernest Tack, David Wells
Backing Vocals: Jimmy Bryant, Gwenn Johnson, Carol Lombard, The Soul Stirrers,
Robert Tebow, George Tipton, Jackie Ward

Recorded February 28, 1963 – January 30, 1964
Music Center of the World
(Hollywood, California)
Producer Hugo & Luigi