Sam Cooke – vocals
Chuck Badie, Buddy Clark, Ray Pohlman, Clifford Hils, Eddie Tilman – bass guitar
Joseph Gibbons – banjo
Hal Blaine, John Boudreaux, Edward Hall, Earl Palmer – drums
Norman Bartold, Le Roy Crume, Barney Kessel, John Pisano, Allen Reuss, Howard Roberts, Clifton White – guitar
Emil Richards – marimba, percussion, timpani
Linwood Mitchell – percussion
Harold Battiste, Ray Johnson – piano
Lincoln Mayorga – piano, celeste
William Hinshaw – french horn
Jewell Grant, William Green, Plas Johnson, Edgar Redmond, Red Tyler – saxophone
Milton Bernhart, Ernest Tack, David Wells, John Halliburton, Harry Betts, Louis Blackburn, Streamline Ewing – trombone
John Anderson, Melvin Lastie – trumpet
Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant – cello
Harry Hyams, Alexander Neiman – viola
Israel Baker, Robert Barene, Arnold Belnick, John DeVoogdt, William Kurasch, Irving Lipschultz, Leonard Malarsky, Jack Pepper, Ralph Schaeffer, Sid Sharp, Darrell Terwilliger, Tibor Zelig – violin
James Bryant – backing vocals
Gwenn Johnson – backing vocals
Carol Lombard – backing vocals
Robert Tebow – backing vocals
George Tipton – backing vocals
Jackie Ward – backing vocals
The Soul Stirrers – backing vocals
Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti – producer
Dave Hassinger – recording engineer
René Hall, Joe Hooven – arranger, conductor
Jody H. Klein, Teri Landi – reissue producer