Sam Cooke - Sad Mood

First performance: 02/05/2012


Coverinfo

Bruce performed the song 33 times as a snippet:
 
  •  Snippets
during HERE SHE COMES WALKIN'
 
2016-03-24 KeyArena At Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Bruce adds a line from "Sad Mood" to the "Here She Comes Walkin'" introduction to "I Wanna Marry You".
 
 
 
 
during MY CITY OF RUINS
 
2016-03-24 KeyArena At Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2013-03-26 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia
2013-03-22 Allphones Arena, Sydney, Australia
2012-12-06 Jobing.com Arena, Glendale, AZ
2012-12-04 Honda Center, Anaheim, CA
2012-11-30 Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA
2012-11-28 Rose Garden, Portland, OR
2012-11-26 Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
2012-11-19 Pepsi Center, Denver, CO
2012-11-17 Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
2012-11-15 CenturyLink Center, Omaha, NE
2012-11-11 Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, MN
2012-11-03 KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, KY
2012-11-01 Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA
2012-10-31 Blue Cross Arena At The War Memorial, Rochester, NY
2012-10-25 XL Center, Hartford, CT
2012-10-23 John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
2012-07-14 Hyde Park, London, England (Evening)
2012-07-11 Synot Tip Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
2012-07-09 Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland
2012-07-07 Festivalpladsen, Roskilde, Denmark
2012-07-05 Palais Omnisports De Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
2012-07-04 Palais Omnisports De Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
2012-06-21 Stadium Of Light, Sunderland, England
2012-06-19 Park & Suites Arena, Montpellier, France
2012-06-11 Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste, Italy
2012-06-10 Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy
2012-06-07 Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy
2012-06-02 Estadio Anoeta, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
2012-05-30 Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany
2012-05-18 Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain
2012-05-17 Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain
2012-05-02 Prudential Center, Newark, NJ 
 

Songinfo

"Sad Mood" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released on November 8, 1960 by RCA Victor. Arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe. "Sad Mood" was first recorded in Cooke's second singles session for RCA on April 13, 1960. The song was set aside after four takes, with Cooke unhappy with the way it was working. Cooke gave it another go on October 1, 1960, this time with "strings, an all-star rhythm section, an assured vocal, and a Sammy Lowe arrangement." Despite this, Cooke was still largely unhappy with the way it turned out, feeling it missed something. "He had established a way of working with arranger René Hall out on the Coast, and even though Sammy Lowe's string arrangements were not all that different from some of René's, the song still did not say Sam Cooke in the way that some of his earlier Keen hits indelibly, if indefinably, had," said biographer Peter Guralnick. Hugo & Luigi were nonetheless satisfied, and set themselves on making it the follow-up single to "Chain Gang".
"Sad Mood" charted well, but sold only 150,000 copies, roughly one-quarter of the sales of its predecessor.
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

2021-02-24 SiriusXM Studio, New York City
Bruce plays the 'good times' during his 18th episode of 'From My Home to Yours' The episode was called "New Born Soul". Later in the episode he plays Soul Stirrers - Jesus, I'll never forget
Bruce: Now if you want the rebirth of the soul, you will need the gospel. So coming up right now is the incredible Soul Stirrers, featuring the, once again, miraculous voice of Sam Cooke, when he was at his most youthful, and maybe at his best. 
 
2020-04-24 SiriusXM Studio, New York City 
Bruce plays ' good times ' during his second 'From His Home to Yours':
Bruce: " The other sexiest man that ever lived — my God, what a voice! And what a beautiful record."
  
 
PODCAST with Barak Obama on 22th of February 2021: American Skin: Race in the United States
Discussing the best Protestsongs, Bruce and Barak Obama mention ' a change is gonna come ' : 

BO: "That song can make me cry, there is something about when he starts singing"
Bruce: 'You can feel the historical pain that's in it and yet the elegance and the generousness of his voice' 
  

Lyrics

I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, I'm in a sad mood
I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, my baby done gone away and left me,
My baby done gone, yeah,
My baby done gone away and left me,
My baby done gone

I don't know why she left me,
I don't know where she's gone
But all I know is I'll never be happy
Until my baby comes back home, yeah, because,
I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, my baby done gone away and left me,
My baby done gone,

Oh, I don't know why she left me
But this one thing I know,
I know that if my baby tells me that she'll come back home
I'll never, never do it no more, yeah, because,

I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, I'm in a sad mood
I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, my baby done gone away and left me,
My baby done gone, yeah,
My baby done gone away and left me,
My baby done gone

I'm in a sad mood tonight
Oh, I'm in a sad mood tonight
She got me in a sad mood tonight
And with her gone I'm in a sad mood tonight
Whoa I'm in a sad mood tonight mmm mmm