Rock and Roll-weekly hotspot-Sam Cooke

in #music6 years ago (edited)

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introducing my weekly hotspot

As a big lover of 1950's music, I wanted to start a series of blog's profiling the great musicians of the 50's.Each week I will be choosing an artist from the 1950's Rock and Roll era and writing a profile all about them. This will include a track of my choice by the selected artist. They will be some statistics and a biography too. (subject to available knowledge) So sit back, relax and prepare to be inspired as we go BACK TO THE 50'S


Sam Cooke

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Sam Cooke was born in Clarkesville, Mississippi in 1931. His family later moved to Chicago in 1933 where he attended Doolittle Elementary, The same school that Nat "King" Cole went to just 3 years previous. When he was six years old Sam Cooke started his career with his siblings in a group called the Singing Children. At the age of 14, he became the lead singer of a band named Highway QC'S.
In 1950 Cooke became the lead singer of a gospel group named The Soul Stirrers under the record label Speciality Records and recorded songs like "Jesus gave me water" and "peace in the valley", amongst many others.
Cooke was credited for bringing gospel music to the attention of the younger crowd of listeners, mainly girls who would rush to the stage just to get a glimpse of Cooke.
1956 came and Sam Cooke went solo although in order to alienate himself from his gospel fan base due to a stigma against gospel singers performing non-religious or secular music he released his first song under the alias, Dale Cooke.
This did not have anyone fooled as his distinctive voice and vocals were easily recognisable.

Sam Cooke had 30 U.S. top 40 hits between 1957 and 1964 including "You Send Me","Chain Gang" and "twistin' The Night". He later founded both a record label and a publishing company. He also took an active part in the Civil Right's Movement. He has been known since as the inventor of soul music.


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Sam Cooke was shot dead at a Motel in California, in 1964 by Bertha Franklin. The jury from the trial found that Bertha acted in self-defence due to her report that she was taken against her will and almost raped by Sam. But this story has later come in to question as some part's of her recollection do not match up to witness reports.
On the day of his funeral, 200'000 fan's lined up for more than 4 city blocks just to catch a glimpse of Sam Cooke's body as it travelled to his service. His body was then flown to Los Angeles to finally rest.


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Hope you have enjoyed issue 02 of Father2b 50's Rock and Roll. keep an eye out for Issue 03 and if you have any input or would like me to include other pieces of information or even have an artist you would like to include then please feel free to drop it in the comment's and I will surely give it some consideration.


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Hope you have enjoyed issue 02 of Father2b 50's Rock and Roll. keep an eye out for Issue 03 and if you have any input or would like me to include other pieces of information or even have an artist you would like to include then please feel free to drop it in the comment's and I will surely give it some consideration.

Credits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke#Discography
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