Sam Cooke’s 80th birthday
Jan 22, 2011, 11:00pm
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Today would have been the truly incomparable Sam Cooke's -called the Inventor of Soul -80th birthday. He started singing in soul groups and ended up in the influential Soul Stirrers . Eventually he took that gospel sound into secular music, first in 1956 with a reworked gospel song called "Lovable" released under the pseudonym Dale Cooke in order to hide his identity from gospel fans who might not like his foray into secular music. He left the Soul Stirrers in 1957 to pursue pop music. [...]
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