Exactly Like You - Sam Cooke
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My Kind Of Blues, 1961
Written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, 1930
A triumphant love song, in which the narrator declares he's been waiting all his life for someone who is a perfect fit. "Now I know why mother taught me to be true / She meant me for someone, baby / Exactly like you." The singing is superb, of course, and the tempo is energetic, especially when it gets to the inner rhymes that often were used in songs of the era: "You seem to understand / Each foolish little dream I'm dreaming / And the schemes I'm scheming." Pace the album title, musically this isn't blues, but big-band swing.
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