“When Sam and the Soul Stirrers came to [a] church ... His final words: “Lady, you shot me.” Friends and family of Cooke ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man with a velvet voice, raised on gospel, rooted in faith ...

Twistin' had been Sam Cooke's biggest UK hit of the sixties, reaching no.6 in 1962. It was much easier to imagine the handsome fella keeping company with the "older queen, who's dolled up in her ...