Sam Cooke honored at Music Festival this Weekend....

believe09 · Aug 6, 2009

I love, love, love Sam Cooke. He was a one off in my book...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_en_mu/us_sam_cooke_festival

Kat · Aug 6, 2009

..."I want to marry you and take you home...<singing

> You send me...honest you do...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqzv1ZS6uZs"]YouTube - Sam Cooke - You Send Me[/ame]

STANDREID · Nov 23, 2014

We are coming up on the 50th anniversary (December 11) of Cooke being shot - a bizarre end.

zwiebel · Dec 10, 2014

'Sam Cooke died 50 years ago this week, an anniversary that is receiving little or no organized fanfare. Its not that Cooke is entirely forgotten: His 1960 hit (What A) Wonderful World Dont know much about history has been streamed more than 15 million times on Spotify, and his reading of his civil-rights anthem A Change Is Gonna Come is approaching 10 million streams on the service.

In 2005, he was the subject of Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, a comprehensive biography by Peter Guralnick, who documented the life of Elvis Presley with similar thoroughness'.....much more at link.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/12/09/remembering-sam-cooke-50-years-after-his-death/

Sam Cooke honored at Music Festival this Weekend....

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