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  1. Sep 22, 2021 · Mr. Cooke was 33 when he was shot by the manager of a $3-a-night motel in Los Angeles in December 1964 while chasing a prostitute who had stolen his clothes and money. Conspiracy theories still...

  2. Jan 22, 2024 · Bobby Womack, a soul music legend, married Barbara Campbell Cooke, the widow of his mentor Sam Cooke, after his death in 1964. He also had an affair with Linda Cooke, Sam's daughter, who later married his brother Cecil.

  3. Oct 21, 2021 · Barbara Campbell Cooke, who has died aged 85, married, successively, Sam Cooke and Bobby Womack, two of the greatest soul singers of the 20th century; but neither relationship...

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  4. Apr 22, 2021 · Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, murdered in a motel tryst gone awry. And only three months after his death, Barbara Campbell Cooke, his widow, would marry her husband's protégé Bobby Womack, the gravelly-voiced soul singer and guitarist.

  5. Sep 27, 2021 · Barbara Campbell Cooke, who was Sam Cooke's teenaged sweetheart and later married his protégé Bobby Womack, died at age 85. The web page also covers Sam Cooke's mysterious death and his involvement in the Civil Rights movement.

  6. Dec 25, 2023 · What people don't know about Sam Cooke's wife, Barbara Campbell, also known as Barbara Campbell Cooke, is that she's a twin. On August 10, 1935, she and Beverly Campbell were welcomed by their parents in Chicago.

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  8. Sep 23, 2021 · Fifteen years later, Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, murdered in a motel tryst gone awry. And only three months after his death, Barbara Campbell Cooke, his widow, married her husband’s protege, Bobby Womack, the gravelly voiced soul singer and guitarist.

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