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"You Send Me "/ " Summertime, Pt 1 " Sam Cooke"
#1 weeks: 1
weeks: 1957-12-02
genre: soul
artist: "Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley
album: Sam Cooke
writers: Sam Cooke
producers: Bumps Blackwell
label:
formats: 45 rpm, 78 rpm
lengths: 2:43

"You Send Me" is a 1957 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. The song was his first secular single released through Keen Records, an imprint of RCA Victor Records. (His first non-gospel single, "Lovable," was released earlier that year under a pseudonym.) Released in September 1957, the record became an instant hit, topping the charts on both the BillboardPop and R&B singles charts. The record established Cooke as a mainstream R&B singer, apart from his gospel roots.

At the same time a rendition was also released by Teresa Brewer, which reached #8 on the pop charts.

Since its release, the song has become a landmark record of the soul genre, which Cooke helped create. It was named as one of the 500 most important rock and roll recordings by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2005, the song was voted #115 by representatives of the music industry and press in Rolling Stonemagazine's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Nat King Cole, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers, José Feliciano, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge, Van Morrison, Steven Houghton and the Steve Miller Band. In the United Kingdom, Rod Stewart released this song as part of a medley with "Bring It on Home to Me" and charted it on the UK Singles Chart at #7 as a double A-side with "Farewell". The Dixie Chicks released their version of the song on their 1992 independent release, "Little Ol' Cowgirl".