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Jul 30, 2003 · Sam Cooke: Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964 is part of a series of newly remastered recordings by the legendary singer. Sam Cooke, the son of a Baptist minister, had 29 Top Forty hits. ABKCO Music ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Sam Cooke was 18 and Barbara Campbell was only 13 when they met on the South Side of Chicago. Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, killed in a motel tryst gone awry ...
Jan 22, 2011 · Sam Cooke, King of Soul. On his birthday, we look back at the life of the man called the “King of Soul.”. Samuel Cook (he would add the “e” later in life) was born Jan. 22, 1931, in ...
Sam Cooke, the son of Reverend Charles Cook, Sr., (a Baptist minister) and Annie May Cook was born January 22, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1933. He had four brothers and three sisters – Willie, Charles Jr., L.C., David, Mary, Hattie and Agnes. Sam graduated from Wendell Phillips High School in ...
Nov 13, 2009 · Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA. On December 11, 1964, in response to a reported shooting, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are dispatched to the Hacienda Motel ...
