Sam Cooke
John Malveaux of
Co-authors and publisher agreed to publish YOU SEND ME,
The Life and Times of SAM COOKE, in digital format (e-book). Deceased
co-author Cliff White was a dear friend and deceased mentor Robert
"Bumps" Blackwell produced "YOU SEND ME".
"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 unrecognized 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."
John Malveaux
Comment by email:
1) As best I know, Sam Cooke was the FIRST African
American artist to literally own himself (ownership of master
recordings), start his own record label (SAR), and record numerous other
African American artists. [John Malveaux]2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CHjY8dVJyw [John Malveaux]
3)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-bcvV5Z05o [John Malveaux]
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