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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9" title="سم کوک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سم کوک" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA" title="Сэм Кук – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сэм Кук" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA" title="Сам Кук – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сам Кук" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BC_%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA" title="Σαμ Κουκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σαμ Κουκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9" title="سم کوک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سم کوک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%98_%EC%BF%A1" title="샘 쿡 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="샘 쿡" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D5%B4_%D4%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF" title="Սեմ Կուկ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սեմ Կուկ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A7" title="סם קוק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סם קוק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA" title="Сем Кук – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сем Кук" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83" title="سام كوك – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سام كوك" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF" title="サム・クック – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サム・クック" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Sam Cooke" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA,_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC" title="Кук, Сэм – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Кук, Сэм" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sam Cooke" 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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people named Sam Cooke, see <a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Sam Cooke (disambiguation)">Sam Cooke (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Sam_Cooke_2.jpg/400px-Sam_Cooke_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="891" data-file-height="1660" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Cooke in 1963</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Samuel Cook</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1931-01-22</span>)</span>January 22, 1931<sup id="cite_ref-bare_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bare-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Clarksdale,_Mississippi" title="Clarksdale, Mississippi">Clarksdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 11, 1964<span style="display:none">(1964-12-11)</span> (aged 33)<br /><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles, California</a>, U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">Soul</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Singer</li><li>songwriter</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1951–1964<sup id="cite_ref-songsofsamcooke.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-songsofsamcooke.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/ABKCO_Records" title="ABKCO Records">ABKCO</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Specialty_Records" title="Specialty Records">Specialty</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Keen_Records" title="Keen Records">Keen</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Samuel Cooke</b><sup id="cite_ref-britannica_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born <b>Samuel Cook</b>; January 22, 1931<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>  – December 11, 1964)<sup id="cite_ref-britannica_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Singer">singer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">songwriter</a>. Considered one of the most influential <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a> artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the "<a href="/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music" title="Honorific nicknames in popular music">King of Soul</a>" for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top 10 of <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Billboard Magazine">Billboard</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Singles_%26_Tracks" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks">Black Singles</a> chart. In 1964, he was shot and killed by the manager of a motel in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mofmotl_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mofmotl-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After an inquest and investigation, the courts ruled Cooke's death to be a <a href="/wiki/Justifiable_homicide" title="Justifiable homicide">justifiable homicide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bookofhits_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bookofhits-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His family has since questioned the circumstances of his death. In 2015, Cooke was ranked number 28 in <i>Billboard</i> magazine's list of the "35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in <a href="/wiki/Clarksdale,_Mississippi" title="Clarksdale, Mississippi">Clarksdale, Mississippi</a>, in 1931 (he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life).<sup id="cite_ref-Guralnick_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guralnick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the fifth of eight children of Rev. Charles Cook, a <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> minister in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Holiness)_U.S.A." title="Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.">Church of Christ (Holiness)</a>, and the former Annie Mae Carroll. One of his younger brothers, L.C. (1932–2017),<sup id="cite_ref-L.C._Cooke_obi_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-L.C._Cooke_obi-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Doo-wop" title="Doo-wop">doo-wop</a> band <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Keyes_and_the_Magnificents" title="Johnny Keyes and the Magnificents">Johnny Keyes and the Magnificents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick20059–10,_17_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick20059–10,_17-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cooke was raised <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cooke's family moved to <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> in 1933.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200510_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200510-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, he attended Doolittle Elementary and <a href="/wiki/Wendell_Phillips_Academy_High_School" title="Wendell Phillips Academy High School">Wendell Phillips Academy High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200515,_22_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200515,_22-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the same school that <a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a> had attended a few years earlier. Cooke sang in the choir of his father's church and began his career with his siblings in a group called the Singing Children when he was six years old.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200513–14_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200513–14-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cooke first became known as lead singer with <a href="/wiki/The_Highway_Q.C.%27s" title="The Highway Q.C.'s">the Highway Q.C.'s</a> when he was a teenager, having joined the group at the age of 14.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200529–31_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200529–31-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time, Cooke befriended fellow gospel singer and neighbor <a href="/wiki/Lou_Rawls" title="Lou Rawls">Lou Rawls</a>, who sang in a rival gospel group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200590_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200590-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Soul_Stirrers">The Soul Stirrers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Soul Stirrers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Soul_Stirrers" title="The Soul Stirrers">The Soul Stirrers</a></div> <p>In 1950, Cooke replaced gospel tenor <a href="/wiki/R._H._Harris" title="R. H. Harris">R. H. Harris</a> as lead singer of his gospel group <a href="/wiki/The_Soul_Stirrers" title="The Soul Stirrers">The Soul Stirrers</a>, who had signed with <a href="/wiki/Specialty_Records" title="Specialty Records">Specialty Records</a> on behalf of the group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200565–68_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200565–68-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their first recording under Cooke's leadership was the song "Jesus Gave Me Water" in 1950. They also recorded the gospel songs "<a href="/wiki/Peace_in_the_Valley" title="Peace in the Valley">Peace in the Valley</a>", "How Far Am I from Canaan?", "Jesus Paid the Debt" and "One More River", among many others, some of which he wrote.<sup id="cite_ref-songsofsamcooke.com_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-songsofsamcooke.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cooke was often credited for bringing gospel music to the attention of a younger crowd of listeners, mainly girls who would rush to the stage when the Soul Stirrers hit the stage just to get a glimpse of him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200547_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick200547-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crossover_pop_success">Crossover pop success</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Crossover pop success"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooke had 30 U.S. top 40 hits between 1957 and 1964, plus three more posthumously. Major hits like "<a href="/wiki/You_Send_Me" title="You Send Me">You Send Me</a>", "<a href="/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come" title="A Change Is Gonna Come">A Change Is Gonna Come</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Cupid_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Cupid (Sam Cooke song)">Cupid</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Chain_Gang_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Chain Gang (Sam Cooke song)">Chain Gang</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Wonderful_World_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song)">Wonderful World</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Another_Saturday_Night" title="Another Saturday Night">Another Saturday Night</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Twistin%27_the_Night_Away" title="Twistin' the Night Away">Twistin' the Night Away</a>" are some of his most popular songs. <i>Twistin' the Night Away</i> was one of Cooke's biggest selling albums.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also among the first modern <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Black</a> performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career. Cooke founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. Cooke also took an active part in the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">civil rights movement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg/220px-Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg/330px-Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg/440px-Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="754" data-file-height="855" /></a><figcaption>Cooke in <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>, 1965, released posthumously</figcaption></figure> <p>Sam Cooke's first pop/soul single was "Lovable" (1956), a remake of the gospel song "Wonderful". It was released under the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">alias</a> "Dale Cook"<sup id="cite_ref-pc17_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pc17-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in order not to alienate his gospel fan base; there was a considerable stigma against gospel singers performing secular music. However, it fooled no one<sup id="cite_ref-bookofhits_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bookofhits-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> — his unique and distinctive vocals were easily recognized. <a href="/wiki/Art_Rupe" title="Art Rupe">Art Rupe</a>, head of Specialty Records, the label of the Soul Stirrers, gave his blessing for Cooke to record secular music under his real name, but he was unhappy about the type of music Cooke and producer <a href="/wiki/Bumps_Blackwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Bumps Blackwell">Bumps Blackwell</a> were making. Rupe expected Cooke's secular music to be similar to that of another Specialty Records artist, <a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a>. When Rupe walked in on a recording session and heard Cooke singing <a href="/wiki/Gershwin" class="mw-redirect" title="Gershwin">Gershwin</a>, he was quite upset. After an argument between Rupe and Blackwell, Cooke and Blackwell left the label.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005171–180_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005171–180-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Lovable" was neither a hit nor a flop, but it indicated Cooke's future potential. While gospel was popular, Cooke saw that its fans were mostly limited to low-income, rural parts of the country, and he sought to branch out. Cooke later admitted that he got an endorsement for a career in pop music from the least likely man, his pastor father. Cooke stated: "My father told me it was not what I sang that was important, but that God gave me a voice and musical talent and the true use of His gift was to share it and make people happy." Taking the name "Sam Cooke", he sought a fresh start in pop.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1957, Sam Cooke appeared on <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guy_Mitchell_Show" title="The Guy Mitchell Show">The Guy Mitchell Show</a></i>. That same year, he signed with Keen Records. Cooke's first hit, "<a href="/wiki/You_Send_Me" title="You Send Me">You Send Me</a>", released as the B-side of "<a href="/wiki/Summertime_(George_Gershwin_song)" title="Summertime (George Gershwin song)">Summertime</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-pc17_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pc17-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005167_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005167-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> spent six weeks at No. 1 on the <a href="/wiki/List_of_No._1_R%26B_hits_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of No. 1 R&B hits (United States)">Billboard R&B chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song also had mainstream success, spending three weeks at No. 1 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> pop</a> chart.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It elevated him from earning $200 a week to over $5,000 a week (equivalent to $54,000 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1958, Cooke performed for the famed Cavalcade of Jazz concert produced by <a href="/wiki/Leon_Hefflin,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Leon Hefflin, Sr.">Leon Hefflin</a> held at the Shrine Auditorium on August 3. The other headliners were <a href="/wiki/Little_Willie_John" title="Little Willie John">Little Willie John</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Freeman" title="Ernie Freeman">Ernie Freeman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bo_Rhambo" title="Bo Rhambo">Bo Rhambo</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a> was there to crown the winner of the Miss Cavalcade of Jazz beauty contest. The event featured the top four prominent disc jockeys of Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-Guralnick_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guralnick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg/220px-Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg/330px-Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg/440px-Cupid_-_Farewell_My_Darling_-_Billboard_ad_1961.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1959" data-file-height="2857" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> advertisement, May 29, 1961</figcaption></figure> <p>Cooke signed with the <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> record label in January 1960, having been offered an advance of $100,000 (equivalent to<span class="nowrap"> </span>$1<span class="nowrap"> </span>million in 2023)<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by the label's producers <a href="/wiki/Hugo_%26_Luigi" title="Hugo & Luigi">Hugo & Luigi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BbJan60_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BbJan60-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBJan60_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBJan60-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of his first RCA Victor singles was "<a href="/wiki/Chain_Gang_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Chain Gang (Sam Cooke song)">Chain Gang</a>", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005338_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005338-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was followed by more hits, including "Sad Mood",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005348,_361_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005348,_361-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Cupid_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Cupid (Sam Cooke song)">Cupid</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005362_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005362-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Bring_It_On_Home_to_Me" title="Bring It On Home to Me">Bring It On Home to Me</a>" (with <a href="/wiki/Lou_Rawls" title="Lou Rawls">Lou Rawls</a> on backing vocals),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005404–407_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005404–407-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Another_Saturday_Night" title="Another Saturday Night">Another Saturday Night</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005460_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005460-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "<a href="/wiki/Twistin%27_the_Night_Away" title="Twistin' the Night Away">Twistin' the Night Away</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005390,_396_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005390,_396-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1961, Cooke started his own record label, <a href="/wiki/SAR_Records" title="SAR Records">SAR Records</a>, with <a href="/wiki/J._W._Alexander_(musician)" title="J. W. Alexander (musician)">J. W. Alexander</a> and his manager, Roy Crain.<sup id="cite_ref-musichistory_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musichistory-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The label soon included the Simms Twins, <a href="/wiki/The_Valentinos" title="The Valentinos">the Valentinos</a> (who were <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Womack" title="Bobby Womack">Bobby Womack</a> and his brothers), <a href="/wiki/Mel_Carter" title="Mel Carter">Mel Carter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Johnnie_Taylor" title="Johnnie Taylor">Johnnie Taylor</a>. Cooke then created a publishing imprint and management firm named Kags.<sup id="cite_ref-Goodman_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goodman-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like most R&B artists of his time, Cooke focused on singles; in all, he had 29 top 40 hits on the pop charts and more on the R&B charts. Cooke was a prolific songwriter and wrote most of the songs he recorded. Cooke also had a hand in overseeing some of the song arrangements. In spite of releasing mostly singles, he released a well-received <a href="/wiki/Blues_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Blues music">blues</a>-inflected LP in 1963, <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Beat_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="Night Beat (Sam Cooke album)">Night Beat</a></i>, and his most critically acclaimed studio album, <i><a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_That_Good_News_(album)" title="Ain't That Good News (album)">Ain't That Good News</a></i>, which featured five singles, in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1963, Cooke signed a five-year contract for <a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a> to manage Kags Music and <a href="/wiki/SAM_Records" title="SAM Records">SAR Records</a>, and made him his manager. Klein negotiated a five-year deal (three years plus two option years) with <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Victor</a> in which a holding company, Tracey, Ltd, named after Cooke's daughter, owned by Klein and managed by J. W. Alexander, would produce and own Cooke's recordings. <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> would get exclusive distribution rights in exchange for six percent royalty payments and payments for the recording sessions. For tax reasons, Cooke would receive preferred stock in Tracey instead of an initial cash advance of $100,000. He would receive cash advances of $100,000 for the next two years, followed by an additional $75,000 for each of the two option years if the deal went to term.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodman201544–46_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodman201544–46-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vocal_ability">Vocal ability</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Vocal ability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooke is widely considered one of the greatest singers and most accomplished vocalists of all time. His incredibly pure tenor voice was big, velvety and expansive, with an instantly recognizable tone. Cooke's pitch was remarkable, and his manner of singing was effortlessly soulful. Cooke could go as high as high C without losing purity or volume, and his upper mid-range was coated in a unique rasp. Cooke's vocal style was very adaptable, adopting a rather classical sound on jazz and pop songs while maintaining his trademark stylistic soulful hold on R&B, gospel and soul music. </p><p>Cooke's delivery encompassed a wide range of emotions including playful expressiveness to interact with listeners, mellow somberness as a form of reflection, and (in "<a href="/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come" title="A Change Is Gonna Come">A Change Is Gonna Come</a>") profound soulfulness. When performing live, he would often play with notes and scales and experiment with melodies and his enunciation, while improvising entire songs. Cooke also began to perform highly charged versions of his songs later in his career. </p><p>Cooke's vocal exploits would go on to influence many acts like <a href="/wiki/Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rod_Stewart" title="Rod Stewart">Rod Stewart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Nash" title="Johnny Nash">Johnny Nash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Turner" title="Tina Turner">Tina Turner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Pickett" title="Wilson Pickett">Wilson Pickett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Green" title="Al Green">Al Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diana_Ross" title="Diana Ross">Diana Ross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Perry" title="Steve Perry">Steve Perry</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a> among many others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooke was married twice.<sup id="cite_ref-Ebony_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ebony-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first marriage was to singer-dancer Dolores Elizabeth Milligan Cooke, who took the stage name "Dee Dee Mohawk" in 1953; they divorced in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005101,_105_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005101,_105-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was killed in an auto collision in <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno, California</a>, in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005282_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005282-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Cooke and Milligan were divorced,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005243_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005243-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he paid for his ex-wife's funeral expenses.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ebony_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ebony-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guralnick_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guralnick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1958 Cooke married his second wife, Barbara Campbell (1935–2021), in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005303_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005303-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father performed the ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had three children: <a href="/wiki/Linda_Womack" title="Linda Womack">Linda</a> (b. 1953),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005102_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005102-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tracy (b. 1960), and Vincent (1961–1963), who drowned in the family swimming pool.<sup id="cite_ref-Ebony_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ebony-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005412,_499–500_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005412,_499–500-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cooke also fathered at least three other children out of wedlock.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005217,_229,_381,_389_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005217,_229,_381,_389-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, a woman in Philadelphia, Connie Bolling,<sup id="cite_ref-Guralnick_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guralnick-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> said Cooke was the father of her son. Cooke paid her an estimated $5,000 settlement out of court.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1958, Cooke was involved in a car accident en route from <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> to <a href="/wiki/Greenville,_Mississippi" title="Greenville, Mississippi">Greenville, Mississippi</a>. His <a href="/wiki/Chauffeur" title="Chauffeur">chauffeur</a> Edward Cunningham was killed, while Cooke, guitarist Cliff White, and singer <a href="/wiki/Lou_Rawls" title="Lou Rawls">Lou Rawls</a> were hospitalized.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cooke was a central part of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>, using his influence and popularity with the White and Black populations to fight for the cause. Cooke was friends with boxer <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a>, activist <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a> and football player <a href="/wiki/Jim_Brown" title="Jim Brown">Jim Brown</a>, who together campaigned for racial equality.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Sam_Cooke" title="Special:EditPage/Sam Cooke">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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For the Har Mar Superstar song, see <a href="/wiki/Bye_Bye_17" title="Bye Bye 17">Bye Bye 17</a>.</div> <p>Cooke was shot and killed on December 11, 1964, at the Hacienda Motel at 91st and South Figueroa streets in <a href="/wiki/Vermont_Vista,_Los_Angeles" title="Vermont Vista, Los Angeles">South Central Los Angeles</a>. Answering separate reports of a shooting and a kidnapping at the motel, police found Cooke's body. He had sustained a gunshot wound to the chest, which was later determined to have pierced his heart.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The motel's manager, Bertha Franklin, said she shot Cooke in self-defense. Her account was immediately disputed by Cooke's friends, who were not there at the time of the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The motel's owner, Evelyn Carr,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> said that she had been on the telephone with Franklin at the time of the incident. Carr said she overheard Cooke's intrusion and the ensuing conflict and gunshot, and called the police.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The police record states that Franklin fatally shot Cooke, who had checked in earlier that evening.<sup id="cite_ref-Wolff_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wolff-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Franklin said Cooke had banged on the door of her office, shouting "Where's the girl?!", in reference to Elisa Boyer, a woman who had accompanied Cooke to the motel, and who had called the police that night from a telephone booth near the motel minutes before Carr had.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619,_627_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619,_627-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Franklin shouted back that there was no one in her office except herself, but an enraged Cooke did not believe her and forced his way into the office, naked except for one shoe and a sport jacket. He grabbed her, demanding again to know the woman's whereabouts. According to Franklin, she grappled with Cooke, the two of them fell to the floor, and she then got up and ran to retrieve a gun. Franklin said that she then fired at Cooke in self-defense because she feared for her life. He was struck once in the <a href="/wiki/Torso" title="Torso">torso</a>. According to Franklin, Cooke exclaimed, "Lady, you shot me", in a tone that expressed perplexity rather than anger, before advancing on her again. Franklin said she hit him on the head with a broomstick before Cooke finally fell to the floor and died. A <a href="/wiki/Coroner" title="Coroner">coroner</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Inquest" title="Inquest">inquest</a> was convened to investigate the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619,_627–628_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005619,_627–628-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Boyer told the police that she had first met Cooke earlier that night and had spent the evening in his company. Boyer said that after they left a local nightclub together, she had repeatedly requested that he take her home, but it appeared Cooke was intoxicated and drove her against her will to a place to have sex. As they sped down Harbor Freeway, Boyer noted they had passed a number of hotels and motor courts. </p><p>Cooke ended up at the Hacienda Motel, a black-owned business in south central Los Angeles. Boyer noted Cooke's familiarity with the layout as if he had been a repeat customer. She said that once in one of the motel's rooms, Cooke physically forced her onto the bed, and then stripped Boyer to her panties. She said she was sure he was going to <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> her. Cooke allowed her to use the bathroom, from which she attempted an escape but found that the window was firmly shut. According to Boyer, she returned to the main room, where Cooke continued to molest her. When he went to use the bathroom, Boyer quickly grabbed her clothes and ran from the room. She said that in her haste, she had also scooped up most of Cooke's clothing by mistake. </p><p>Boyer said she ran first to the manager's office and knocked on the door seeking help. However, she said that the manager took too long to respond, so, fearing Cooke would soon be coming after her, she fled from the motel before the manager opened the door. Boyer said she then put her clothes back on, hid Cooke's clothing, went to a telephone booth, and called the police.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005616–619_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005616–619-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Boyer's account is the only one that exists of what happened between her and Cooke that night, and it has long been called into question due to reports by diners at Martoni's Restaurant, where Cooke dined and drank earlier in the evening. These reports claimed Boyer seemed to be enjoying herself. However, critics argue that just because a woman seems to have a good time during dinner, does not mean she is obligated to have sex later on.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005643_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005643-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wolff_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wolff-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to restaurant employees and friends, Cooke was carrying a large amount of money at Martoni's. A search of Boyer's purse by police revealed nothing except a $20 bill, and a search of Cooke's <a href="/wiki/Ferrari" title="Ferrari">Ferrari</a> found a money clip with $108 (equivalent to $1,061 in 2023),<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as a few loose coins near the ashtray.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Carr's testimony <a href="/wiki/Corroborating_evidence" title="Corroborating evidence">corroborated</a> Franklin's version of events, and because both Boyer and Franklin later passed <a href="/wiki/Polygraph" title="Polygraph">polygraph</a> tests,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Coroner%27s_jury" title="Coroner's jury">coroner's jury</a> ultimately accepted Franklin's explanation and returned a verdict of <a href="/wiki/Justifiable_homicide" title="Justifiable homicide">justifiable homicide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bookofhits_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bookofhits-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With that verdict, authorities officially closed the case on Cooke's death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005626–629_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005626–629-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, some of Cooke's family and supporters have rejected Boyer's version of events, as well as those given by Franklin and Carr. They believe that the killing took place in some manner entirely different from the three official accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005642–643_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005642–643-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hildebrand_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hildebrand-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the perceived lack of an investigation, Cooke's close friend <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a> said: "If Cooke had been Frank Sinatra, the Beatles or Ricky Nelson, the FBI would be investigating."<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Singer <a href="/wiki/Etta_James" title="Etta James">Etta James</a> viewed Cooke's body before his funeral and questioned the accuracy of the official version of events. She wrote that the injuries she observed were well beyond the official account of Cooke having fought Franklin alone. James wrote that Cooke was so badly beaten that his head was nearly separated from his shoulders, his hands were broken and crushed, and his nose mangled.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some have speculated that Cooke's manager, <a href="/wiki/Allen_Klein" title="Allen Klein">Allen Klein</a>, had a role in his death. Klein owned Tracey Ltd, which ultimately owned all rights to Cooke's recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557–58_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557–58-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, no concrete evidence supporting a <a href="/wiki/Criminal_conspiracy" title="Criminal conspiracy">criminal conspiracy</a> has been presented.<sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hildebrand_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hildebrand-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG/200px-Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG/300px-Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG/400px-Sam_Cooke_Grave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Sam Cooke in the Garden of Honor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California</figcaption></figure> <p>The first funeral service for Cooke was held on December 18, 1964, at A. R. Leak Funeral Home in Chicago; 200,000 fans lined up for more than four city blocks to view his body.<sup id="cite_ref-Ebony_45-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ebony-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-About_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Afterward, Cooke's body was flown back to Los Angeles for a second service, at the Mount Sinai Baptist Church on December 19,<sup id="cite_ref-Corbis_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corbis-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which included a much-heralded performance of "The Angels Keep Watching Over Me" by <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, who stood in for a grief-stricken <a href="/wiki/Bessie_Griffin" title="Bessie Griffin">Bessie Griffin</a>. Cooke was interred at <a href="/wiki/Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park_(Glendale)" title="Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)">Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glendale,_California" title="Glendale, California">Glendale, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ebony_45-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ebony-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two singles and an album were released in the month after Cooke's death. One of the singles, "<a href="/wiki/Shake_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Shake (Sam Cooke song)">Shake</a>", reached the top ten of both the pop and R&B charts. The B-side, "<a href="/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come" title="A Change Is Gonna Come">A Change Is Gonna Come</a>", is considered a classic <a href="/wiki/Protest_song" title="Protest song">protest song</a> from the era of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was a <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> pop hit and a top 10 R&B hit. The album, also titled <a href="/wiki/Shake_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="Shake (Sam Cooke album)"><i>Shake</i></a>, reached the number one spot for R&B albums. </p><p>Bertha Franklin said that she received numerous death threats after shooting Cooke. She left her position at the Hacienda Motel and did not publicly disclose where she had moved.<sup id="cite_ref-washington_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washington-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After being cleared by the coroner's jury, she sued Cooke's estate, citing physical injuries and mental anguish suffered as a result of Cooke's attack. Franklin's lawsuit sought $200,000 (equivalent to<span class="nowrap"> </span>$1.9<span class="nowrap"> </span>million in 2023)<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Compensatory_damages" class="mw-redirect" title="Compensatory damages">compensatory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punitive_damages" title="Punitive damages">punitive damages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-washington_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washington-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Barbara Womack <a href="/wiki/Countersue" class="mw-redirect" title="Countersue">countersued</a> Franklin on behalf of the estate, seeking $7,000 (equivalent to $68,000 in 2023) in damages to cover Cooke's funeral expenses. Elisa Boyer provided testimony in support of Franklin in the case. In 1967, the courts awarded Franklin $30,000 in damages (equivalent to $274,000 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_32-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooke's contributions to soul music contributed to the rise of <a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Womack" title="Bobby Womack">Bobby Womack</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Green" title="Al Green">Al Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield" title="Curtis Mayfield">Curtis Mayfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Gaye" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Preston" title="Billy Preston">Billy Preston</a>, and popularized the work of <a href="/wiki/Otis_Redding" title="Otis Redding">Otis Redding</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ROCK_ON_ALMANAC_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ROCK_ON_ALMANAC-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> biographer Bruce Eder wrote that Cooke was "the inventor of soul music", and possessed "an incredible natural singing voice and a smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed."<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portrayals">Portrayals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Portrayals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooke was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Mooney_(comedian)" title="Paul Mooney (comedian)">Paul Mooney</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Buddy_Holly_Story" title="The Buddy Holly Story">The Buddy Holly Story</a></i>, a 1978 American <a href="/wiki/Biographical_film" title="Biographical film">biographical film</a> which tells the life story of <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock musician</a> <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a>. </p><p>In the stage play <i><a href="/wiki/One_Night_in_Miami_(play)" title="One Night in Miami (play)">One Night in Miami</a></i>, first performed in 2013, Cooke was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Arinz%C3%A9_Kene" title="Arinzé Kene">Arinzé Kene</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/One_Night_in_Miami..." title="One Night in Miami...">2020 film adaptation</a>, he is played by <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Odom_Jr." title="Leslie Odom Jr.">Leslie Odom Jr.</a>, who was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor</a> for his portrayal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Posthumous_honors">Posthumous honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Posthumous honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In 1986, Cooke was inducted as a charter member of the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1987, Cooke was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Songwriters_Hall_of_Fame" title="Songwriters Hall of Fame">Songwriters Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1989, Cooke was inducted a second time to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when the Soul Stirrers were inducted.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On February 1, 1994, Cooke received a star on the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> for his contributions to the music industry, located on 7051 <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Boulevard" title="Hollywood Boulevard">Hollywood Boulevard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Although Cooke never won a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a>, he received the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a> in 1999,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> presented by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Blackmon" title="Larry Blackmon">Larry Blackmon</a> of funk super-group <a href="/wiki/Cameo_(band)" title="Cameo (band)">Cameo</a>.</li> <li>In 2004, <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> ranked Cooke 16th on its list of the "<a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_100_Greatest_Artists_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time">100 Greatest Artists of All Time</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2008, Cooke was named the fourth "Greatest Singer of All Time" by <i>Rolling Stone</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2008, Cooke received the first plaque on the <a href="/wiki/Clarksdale_Walk_of_Fame" title="Clarksdale Walk of Fame">Clarksdale Walk of Fame</a>, located at the New Roxy theater.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2009, Cooke was honored with a marker on the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail" title="Mississippi Blues Trail">Mississippi Blues Trail</a> in Clarksdale.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In June 2011, the city of Chicago renamed a portion of East 36th Street near Cottage Grove Avenue as the honorary "Sam Cooke Way" to remember the singer near a corner where he hung out and sang as a teenager. Many of his family was also in attendance, as many of them are living in the Chicago area.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2013, Cooke was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/National_Rhythm_and_Blues_Music_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="National Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame">National Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, Ohio, at <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_State_University" title="Cleveland State University">Cleveland State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The founder of the <a href="/wiki/National_Rhythm_%26_Blues_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame">National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame</a>, LaMont Robinson, said he was the greatest singer ever to sing.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The words "<a href="/wiki/A_Change_Is_Gonna_Come" title="A Change Is Gonna Come">A change is gonna come</a>" from the Sam Cooke song of the same name are on a wall of the Contemplative Court, a space for reflection in the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Smithsonian">Smithsonian</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture" title="National Museum of African American History and Culture">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a>; the museum opened in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonianmag2017_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonianmag2017-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Cooke is inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Musicians_Hall_of_Fame" title="Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame">Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2020, <a href="/wiki/Dion_DiMucci" title="Dion DiMucci">Dion</a> released a song and <a href="/wiki/Music_video" title="Music video">music video</a> as a tribute to Cooke called "Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America)" (featuring <a href="/wiki/Paul_Simon" title="Paul Simon">Paul Simon</a>) from his album <i><a href="/wiki/Joe_Bonamassa#Keeping_the_Blues_Alive_Records" title="Joe Bonamassa">Blues with Friends</a></i>. <i><a href="/wiki/American_Songwriter" title="American Songwriter">American Songwriter</a></i> magazine honored "Song for Sam Cooke" as the "Greatest of the Great 2020 Songs".<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2023, Cooke was named the third "Greatest Singer of All Time" by <i>Rolling Stone</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2025, <i>Rolling Stone</i> placed "A Change Is Gonna Come" at number 1 on its list of "The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time."<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke_discography" title="Sam Cooke discography">Sam Cooke discography</a></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke_(album)" title="Sam Cooke (album)">Sam Cooke</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Encore_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="Encore (Sam Cooke album)">Encore</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tribute_to_the_Lady" title="Tribute to the Lady">Tribute to the Lady</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cooke%27s_Tour" title="Cooke's Tour">Cooke's Tour</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hits_of_the_50%27s" title="Hits of the 50's">Hits of the 50's</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swing_Low_(album)" title="Swing Low (album)">Swing Low</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Kind_of_Blues_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album)">My Kind of Blues</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twistin%27_the_Night_Away_(album)" title="Twistin' the Night Away (album)">Twistin' the Night Away</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Soul_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="Mr. Soul (Sam Cooke album)">Mr. Soul</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_Beat_(Sam_Cooke_album)" title="Night Beat (Sam Cooke album)">Night Beat</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ain%27t_That_Good_News_(album)" title="Ain't That Good News (album)">Ain't That Good News</a></i> (1964)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Guralnick</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Cooke&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-bare-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bare_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFEagleLeBlanc2013" class="citation book cs1">Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). <i>Blues – A Regional Experience</i>. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 199. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-34423-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-34423-7"><bdi>978-0-313-34423-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Blues+%E2%80%93+A+Regional+Experience&rft.place=Santa+Barbara&rft.pages=199&rft.pub=Praeger+Publishers&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-313-34423-7&rft.aulast=Eagle&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft.au=LeBlanc%2C+Eric+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooke's death certificate gives his year of birth as 1932 while his gravestone gives his year of birth as 1930. However, the Social Security Death Master File (number 329-26-4823) indicates 1931.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historicplacesla.org/reports/302ad891-d563-49ee-a301-3a8ec8d687cd">"Report – HPLA"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Report+%E2%80%93+HPLA&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricplacesla.org%2Freports%2F302ad891-d563-49ee-a301-3a8ec8d687cd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-songsofsamcooke.com-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-songsofsamcooke.com_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-songsofsamcooke.com_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-unfit"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130216192534/http://songsofsamcooke.com/soulstirrers/jesus_gave_me_water.htm">"Jesus Gave Me Water"</a>. Songsofsamcooke.com. March 1, 1951. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 13,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Jesus+Gave+Me+Water&rft.pub=Songsofsamcooke.com&rft.date=1951-03-01&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsongsofsamcooke.com%2Fsoulstirrers%2Fjesus_gave_me_water.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-britannica-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-britannica_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britannica_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Ritz" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">David Ritz. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/136091/Sam-Cooke">"Sam Cooke"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 28,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Sam+Cooke&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.au=David+Ritz&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2FEBchecked%2Ftopic%2F136091%2FSam-Cooke&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://findadeath.com/sam-cooke/">Cooke's death certificate gives 1932 as his year of birth while his gravestone gives 1930 as his year of birth. Copy of death certificate available midway through scrolling down.</a> However, the Social Security Death Master File (number 329-26-4823) indicates 1931.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJanovitz" class="citation web cs1">Janovitz, Bill. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.allmusic.com/song/cupid-mt0014588548">"Cupid – Sam Cooke"</a>. <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 5,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Cupid+%E2%80%93+Sam+Cooke&rft.pub=AllMusic&rft.aulast=Janovitz&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allmusic.com%2Fsong%2Fcupid-mt0014588548&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mofmotl-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mofmotl_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TXxfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6334%2C1996941">"Manager of motel shoots singing star"</a>. <i>Lewiston Morning Tribune</i>. (Idaho). Associated Press. December 12, 1964. p. 10.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Lewiston+Morning+Tribune&rft.atitle=Manager+of+motel+shoots+singing+star&rft.pages=10&rft.date=1964-12-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fid%3DTXxfAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D6334%252C1996941&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bookofhits-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bookofhits_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bookofhits_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bookofhits_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBronson2003" class="citation book cs1">Bronson, Fred (2003). <i>The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits: The Inside Story Behind Every Number One Single on Billboard's Hot 100 from 1955 to the Present</i>. Billboard Books. p. 30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8230-7677-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8230-7677-6"><bdi>0-8230-7677-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Billboard+Book+of+Number+1+Hits%3A+The+Inside+Story+Behind+Every+Number+One+Single+on+Billboard%27s+Hot+100+from+1955+to+the+Present&rft.pages=30&rft.pub=Billboard+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-8230-7677-6&rft.aulast=Bronson&rft.aufirst=Fred&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.billboard.com/photos/6737387/best-r-and-b-singers-of-all-time">"The 35 Greatest R&B Artists Of All Time"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>. November 12, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Billboard&rft.atitle=The+35+Greatest+R%26B+Artists+Of+All+Time&rft.date=2015-11-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fphotos%2F6737387%2Fbest-r-and-b-singers-of-all-time&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guralnick-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guralnick_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guralnick_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guralnick_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guralnick_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Guralnick" title="Peter Guralnick">Guralnick, Peter</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dreamboogietrium00gura/page/9"><i>Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Little,_Brown_and_Company" title="Little, Brown and Company">Little, Brown and Company</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-37794-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-37794-5"><bdi>0-316-37794-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dream+Boogie%3A+The+Triumph+of+Sam+Cooke&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown+and+Company&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-316-37794-5&rft.aulast=Guralnick&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdreamboogietrium00gura%2Fpage%2F9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Note: His headstone gives his birth year as 1930.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-L.C._Cooke_obi-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-L.C._Cooke_obi_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abkco.com/news-feed/l-c-cooke-december-14-1932-july-21-2017/">"L.C. Cooke December 14, 1932 – July 21, 2017"</a>. <i>abkco.com</i>. July 21, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 21,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=AllMusic&rft.atitle=Sam+Cooke+AllMusic&rft.aulast=Eder&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allmusic.com%2Fartist%2Fsam-cooke-mn0000238115%2Fbiography&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1">Guralnick, Peter (September 22, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206220302/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7661211/the_man_who_invented_soul">"The Man Who Invented Soul"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 9,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CrimeLibrary.com&rft.atitle=The+Death+of+Sam+Cooke&rft.aulast=Krajicek&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimelibrary.com%2Fnotorious_murders%2Fcelebrity%2Fsam_cooke%2F11.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/17/archives/shooting-of-sam-cooke-held-justifiable-homicide.html">"Shooting of Sam Cooke Held 'Justifiable Homicide'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/United_Press_International" title="United Press International">United Press International</a>. December 16, 1964.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Shooting+of+Sam+Cooke+Held+%27Justifiable+Homicide%27&rft.date=1964-12-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1964%2F12%2F17%2Farchives%2Fshooting-of-sam-cooke-held-justifiable-homicide.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005626–629-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005626–629_67-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuralnick2005">Guralnick 2005</a>, pp. 626–629.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMilicia2005" class="citation news cs1">Milicia, Joe (December 6, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121105204309/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-116060846.html">"Sam Cooke's story told from 'the inside out' — A thorough effort to give him his due"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-116060846.html">the original</a> on November 5, 2012. <q>That he was killed after being scammed by a prostitute just didn't make sense to many people. It's an end that his sister, Agnes Cooke-Hoskins, still discounts. 'My brother was first class all the way. He would not check into a $3-a-night motel; that wasn't his style', she said while attending a recent tribute to Cooke at the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum</a></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Sam+Cooke%27s+story+told+from+%27the+inside+out%27+%E2%80%94+A+thorough+effort+to+give+him+his+due&rft.date=2005-12-06&rft.aulast=Milicia&rft.aufirst=Joe&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbeam.com%2Fdoc%2F1P1-116060846.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreene2006" class="citation book cs1">Greene, Erik (2006). <i>Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story from His Family's Perspective</i>. Victoria, Canada: <a href="/wiki/Trafford_Publishing" title="Trafford Publishing">Trafford Publishing</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4122-0987-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-4122-0987-0"><bdi>1-4122-0987-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Our+Uncle+Sam%3A+The+Sam+Cooke+Story+from+His+Family%27s+Perspective&rft.place=Victoria%2C+Canada&rft.pub=Trafford+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1-4122-0987-0&rft.aulast=Greene&rft.aufirst=Erik&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames1992" class="citation magazine cs1">James, Gary (January 27, 1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.classicbands.com/SolomonBurkeInterview.html">"Interview with Solomon Burke"</a>. <i>Classic Bands</i>. <q>I've always felt there was some sort of conspiracy there. ... I listened to the reports and I listened to the story of what happened and I can imagine Sam going after his pants. I can imagine Sam going up to the counter and saying 'Hey, somebody just took my pants.' And he's standing there, seeing the woman with his pants. I can imagine him saying 'Give me my pants.' But I can't imagine him attacking her. He wasn't that type of person to attack somebody. That wasn't his bag. He was a lover, OK. He wasn't a fighter. He wasn't a boxer. You never heard of Sam Cooke beating up his women.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Classic+Bands&rft.atitle=Interview+with+Solomon+Burke&rft.date=1992-01-27&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classicbands.com%2FSolomonBurkeInterview.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005642–643-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuralnick2005642–643_71-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuralnick2005">Guralnick 2005</a>, pp. 642–643.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gordon-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gordon_72-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gordon_72-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGordon2005" class="citation news cs1">Gordon, Ed (November 16, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014891">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Dream Boogie': The Life and Death of Sam Cooke"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a></i>. <q>...I would say within the community there is not a single person that believes that Sam Cooke died as he is said to have died: killed by a motel owner at a cheap motel in Los Angeles called the Hacienda which he had gone to with a prostitute named Elisa Boyer. I could have filled 100 pages of the book with an appendix on all the theories about his death. Central tenet of every one of those theories is that this was a case of another proud black man brought down by the white establishment who simply didn't want to see him grow any bigger. I looked into this very carefully. I had access to the private investigators' report, which nobody had seen and which filled in a good many more details. And no evidence has ever been adduced to prove any of these theories.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=NPR&rft.atitle=%27Dream+Boogie%27%3A+The+Life+and+Death+of+Sam+Cooke&rft.date=2005-11-16&rft.aulast=Gordon&rft.aufirst=Ed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D5014891&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hildebrand-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hildebrand_73-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hildebrand_73-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHildebrand2007" class="citation news cs1">Hildebrand, Lee (April 10, 2007). "Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick tackles another music legend: Sam Cooke". <i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian" title="San Francisco Bay Guardian">San Francisco Bay Guardian</a></i>. <q><span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'In the course of the two or three hundred different interviews with different people that I did for the book, there are two or three hundred different conspiracy theories,' he said. 'While they were all extremely interesting, and while every one of them reflected a basic truth about prejudice in America in 1964 and the truth of the prejudice that has continued into the present day, none of them came accompanied by any evidence beyond that metaphorical truth.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=San+Francisco+Bay+Guardian&rft.atitle=Elvis+biographer+Peter+Guralnick+tackles+another+music+legend%3A+Sam+Cooke&rft.date=2007-04-10&rft.aulast=Hildebrand&rft.aufirst=Lee&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDrozdowski2002" class="citation news cs1">Drozdowski, Ted (March 14–21, 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060528185941/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/documents/02192128.htm">"Soul man, Sam Cooke's fulfilling late period"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Phoenix" class="mw-redirect" title="The Boston Phoenix">The Boston Phoenix</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/documents/02192128.htm">the original</a> on May 28, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 19,</span> 2006</span>. <q>It's hard to buy into conspiracy theories, though several swirl around this incident that paint Cooke as the victim of a plot by white supremacists to silence the country's most popular self-empowered black man.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Boston+Phoenix&rft.atitle=Soul+man%2C+Sam+Cooke%27s+fulfilling+late+period&rft.date=2002-03-14%2F2002-03-21&rft.aulast=Drozdowski&rft.aufirst=Ted&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonphoenix.com%2Fboston%2Fmusic%2Fother_stories%2Fdocuments%2F02192128.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRuntagh" class="citation web cs1">Runtagh, Jordan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://people.com/movies/why-mystery-still-shrouds-singer-sam-cookes-shooting-death-nearly-60-years-later/">"Why Mystery Still Shrouds Singer Sam Cooke's Shooting Death Nearly 60 Years Later"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/People_(magazine)" title="People (magazine)">People</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 4,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=People&rft.atitle=Why+Mystery+Still+Shrouds+Singer+Sam+Cooke%27s+Shooting+Death+Nearly+60+Years+Later&rft.aulast=Runtagh&rft.aufirst=Jordan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fmovies%2Fwhy-mystery-still-shrouds-singer-sam-cookes-shooting-death-nearly-60-years-later%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJamesRitz2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Etta_James" title="Etta James">James, Etta</a>; Ritz, David (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ragetosurviveett00jame/page/151"><i>Rage To Survive: The Etta James Story</i></a>. New York City: <a href="/wiki/Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ragetosurviveett00jame/page/151">151</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-81262-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-81262-2"><bdi>0-306-81262-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rage+To+Survive%3A+The+Etta+James+Story&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=151&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-306-81262-2&rft.aulast=James&rft.aufirst=Etta&rft.au=Ritz%2C+David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fragetosurviveett00jame%2Fpage%2F151&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557–58-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodman201557–58_77-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGoodman2015">Goodman 2015</a>, pp. 57–58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-About-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-About_78-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFontenot" class="citation web cs1">Fontenot, Robert. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150906092613/http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/Today-In-Oldies-Music-History-December-18.htm">"Today in Oldies Music History: December 18"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/About.com" class="mw-redirect" title="About.com">about.com</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/Today-In-Oldies-Music-History-December-18.htm">the original</a> on September 6, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 31,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=about.com&rft.atitle=Today+in+Oldies+Music+History%3A+December+18&rft.aulast=Fontenot&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Foldies.about.com%2Fod%2Foldieshistory%2Fa%2FToday-In-Oldies-Music-History-December-18.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Corbis-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Corbis_79-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE063840/crowd-at-sam-cookes-funeral">"Crowd at Sam Cooke's Funeral"</a>. Corbis Images<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 31,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Crowd+at+Sam+Cooke%27s+Funeral&rft.pub=Corbis+Images&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corbisimages.com%2Fstock-photo%2Frights-managed%2FBE063840%2Fcrowd-at-sam-cookes-funeral&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Connell2014" class="citation web cs1">O'Connell, Sean J. (March 13, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.laweekly.com/heres-where-five-soul-legends-are-buried-in-l-a/">"Here's Where Five Soul Legends Are Buried in L.A."</a> <i><a href="/wiki/LA_Weekly" title="LA Weekly">LA Weekly</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=LA+Weekly&rft.atitle=Here%27s+Where+Five+Soul+Legends+Are+Buried+in+L.A.&rft.date=2014-03-13&rft.aulast=O%27Connell&rft.aufirst=Sean+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laweekly.com%2Fheres-where-five-soul-legends-are-buried-in-l-a%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17267529">"Sam Cooke's Swan Song of Protest"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a></i>. December 16, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 8,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=NPR&rft.atitle=Sam+Cooke%27s+Swan+Song+of+Protest&rft.date=2007-12-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D17267529&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-washington-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-washington_82-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-washington_82-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Cooke's killer sues his estate". <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Afro-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Afro-American">Washington Afro-American</a></i>. 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Little, Brown. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-37794-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-37794-5"><bdi>0-316-37794-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dream+Boogie%3A+The+Triumph+of+Sam+Cooke&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-316-37794-5&rft.aulast=Guralnick&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Cooke" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><i>Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story from His Family's Perspective</i> by Erik Greene (2005) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4120-6498-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-4120-6498-8">1-4120-6498-8</a></li> <li><i>You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke</i> by Daniel Wolff, S. R. Crain, Clifton White, and G. David Tenenbaum (1995) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-12403-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-12403-8">0-688-12403-8</a></li> <li><i>One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke</i> by B. G. Rhule (2012) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4675-2856-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4675-2856-6">978-1-4675-2856-6</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurford2012" class="citation journal cs1">Burford, Mark (2012). "Sam Cooke as Pop Album Artist—A Reinvention in Three Songs". <i>Journal of the American Musicological Society</i>. <b>65</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">113–</span>178. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1525%2Fjams.2012.65.1.113">10.1525/jams.2012.65.1.113</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2012.65.1.113">10.1525/jams.2012.65.1.113</a>.</cite><span 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1951–1964</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Send_Me" title="You Send Me">You Send Me</a>" / "<a href="/wiki/Summertime_(George_Gershwin_song)#Recorded_versions" title="Summertime (George Gershwin song)">Summertime</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Come_Running_Back_to_You" title="I'll Come Running Back to You">I'll Come Running Back to You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/(I_Love_You)_For_Sentimental_Reasons" title="(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons">(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Were_Made_for_Me_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="You Were Made for Me (Sam Cooke song)">You Were Made for Me</a>" / "<a href="/wiki/Lonely_Island_(Sam_Cooke_song)" title="Lonely Island (Sam Cooke song)">Lonely Island</a>"</li> <li>"<a 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I've Said It Again">There! 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Duran_Duran_(1983_video)" title="Duran Duran (1983 video)">Duran Duran</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Duran_Duran" title="Duran Duran">Duran Duran</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_Thriller_(music_video)" title="Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)">Making Michael Jackson's Thriller</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> (1984)</li> <li><i>Huey Lewis & The News: The Heart of Rock 'n Roll</i> – <a href="/wiki/Huey_Lewis_and_the_News" title="Huey Lewis and the News">Huey Lewis and the News</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bring_On_the_Night" title="Bring On the Night">Bring On the Night</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)">Sting</a> (1986)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cedff2;;width:1%"><a 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Live">Secret World Live</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology" title="The Beatles Anthology">The Beatles Anthology</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jagged_Little_Pill,_Live" title="Jagged Little Pill, Live">Jagged Little Pill, Live</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Alanis_Morissette" title="Alanis Morissette">Alanis Morissette</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Masters" title="American Masters">American Masters</a>: Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart</i> – <a href="/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a> (1998)</li> <li><i>Band of Gypsys: Live at Fillmore East</i> – <a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a> (1999)</li> <li><i>Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album</i> – <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> (2000)</li> <li><i>Recording The 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