Sam Cooke

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Biographies

 

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Gregg A

 

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March 21, 2013

 

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University

 

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During the middle of the decade, the Cook family moved to Chicago's South Side, where the Reverend Charles Cook quickly established himself as a major figure in the religious community. Sam and three of his siblings also formed a group of their own, the Singing Children, in the 1930s. Although his own singing was confined to gospel music, he was aware and appreciative of the popular music of the period, particularly the harmony-based sounds of the Ink Spots, whose influence could later be heard in songs such as "You Send Me" and "For Sentimental Reasons...
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His membership in that group led to his introduction to the Soul Stirrers, one of the top gospel groups in the country, and in 1950 he joined them. Over the next six years, his role within the group and his prominence within the black community rose to the point where he was already a star, with his own admiring audience, because of his performances on songs like "Touch the Hem of His Garment," "Nearer to Thee," and "That's Heaven to Me...
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