You Send Me: Life and Times of Sam Cooke

by Daniel Wolff (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.28

  When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a world in which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as You Send Me and A Wonderful World , yet his body lay unrecognised in a morgue for two days. This biography follows Cooke's life in a racist America where his voice was one of the first to reach beyond the segregated audiences and command a white following, Cooke himself becoming a player in the fledgling civil rights movement. This award-winning biography is a full and sometimes shocking story of a man whose songbook is revered by great performers such as Otis Redding, Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $5.36

  When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a Ferrari idling in the driveway of the Hacidenda Motel and a legacy of hit songs which included You Send Me , Cupid , A Wonderful World , Only 16 , Another Saturday Night and A Change is Gonna Come . Sam Cooke's voice reached out beyond segregated audiences and command a white following. His songbook has been covered by a variety of performers, from Otis Redding to Rod Stewart, from Aretha Franklin to Simon and Garfunkel. This is the full and sometimes shocking story of an American musical legend, and the changing times in which he lived and died.