Hip to be
Square
“Only Sixteen” by
Sam Cooke 1959
John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Ain’t Even Done With the Night”
says, “You got your hands in my back pockets, and Sam Cooke's singin' on the
radio”. There is a mystique about Sam Cooke. He is a legend: a dream-like spirit of something
past. His influence was deep and strong. His life was short and brilliant.
Known as the ‘King of Soul’ Sam Cooke had a profound
influence on people like Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Curtis
Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye and many to follow His soaring voice and delivery – smooth as
silk; vulnerable yet strangely strong and able to take you away with it.
