Before Aretha, Curtis, Otis, Stevie, and Marvin; before Bobby Womack, Al Green, and Billy Preston; before James Brown - there was Sam Cooke!
He preceded Nat Cole and Ray Charles in being the number one influential Black recording artist who took charge of his own recording production and owned his own songs.
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| Click Sam's image to hear his first pop hit, "You Send Me" (1957). |
Sam Cooke began singing as a child and joined the gospel group, The
Soul Stirrers, out of Chicago, before moving to a solo career where he scored a string
of hit songs like "You
Send Me" and "Twistin'
the Night Away."
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| Click the Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke (lower left in the photo) album cover to hear "Farther Along." |
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Click the Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke (third from left) to hear "Nearer My God to Thee."
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