You Send Me: Life and Times of Sam Cooke

Daniel Wolff; Cliff White

ISBN 10: 1852275111 / ISBN 13: 9781852275112

Published by Virgin Books, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Send Me: Life and Times of Sam Cooke
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852275111
• ISBN 13: 9781852275112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1773657091.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 16442714
• Signed: 3/16/2026 10:31:31 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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  • 9781852275112

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Synopsis

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 unrecognised 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.