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Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931 ... In 1958 Cooke married his second wife, Barbara Campbell (1935–2021), in Chicago.
Linda Womack (née Cooke) is the eldest child of Barbara Campbell and Sam Cooke, born on April 25, 1953. Her parents married in 1958. In December 1964, when she was 11 years old, her father was killed. Soon after, her mother married Cooke's protégé Bobby Womack on March 5, 1965. [2]
Rowland asked Cooke to write a song for him, and Cooke borrowed the bridge from an earlier song of his, "Little Things You Do". Rowland's manager disliked the result, and Cooke re-recorded it for himself. [3] [4] The composition was originally credited to Barbara Campbell, a pseudonym used for Cooke, Lou Adler and Herb Alpert. Cooke married the ...
Peter Guralnick's biography "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke," recounts that on October 8, 1963, Cooke attempted to reserve rooms at Shreveport's Holiday Inn North for himself and his wife ...
The late Sam Cooke would be 90 years old today. The movie imagines the personal sparks, bonds, and struggles of four key Black American figures on a night in 1964 when Cooke, sports hero Muhammed ...
PLAYBACK: The soulful Sixties crooner was 33 when he was shot by the manager of a $3-a-night motel in Los Angeles. The lingering conspiracies surrounding his death, writes Mark Beaumont, threaten ...
Cecil later married Linda Cooke, the daughter of Sam Cooke. This created an interesting family tree because Cecil's brother Bobby Womack had married Sam Cooke's widow and Linda's mother Barbara Campbell in 1965. [13] Cecil and Linda had seven children together, and had homes in Africa and Thailand.
After meeting Sam Cooke, they changed their name to the Valentinos and in 1961 began to sing and record "the devil's music" for secular audiences, to the horror of their religious father. [2] The Valentinos had a hit record with "Lookin' for a Love," selling two million copies, later becoming a no. 39 U.S. hit for the J. Geils Band in 1971. [2]