Sam Cooke In the midst of a time where black Americans were facing extreme ridicule and fighting for their rights, Sam Cooke arose from the Gospel music style and merged into the music known as Soul, a genre that spoke to the socially crumbling nation about peace and civil rights changes. ...
Performers include Elvis Presley, Patti Page, Bill Haley & His Comets, Sam Cooke, The Crickets, Tony and Joe, The Diamonds, plus 11 more. Click for playlist Episode 305, Ned Washington Episode 305, Ned Washington, explores music written by a man who created 140 songs in motion pictures ...
and extravagant melisma. If in the 1950s Charles was the first to secularize pure gospel songs, that transformation realized its full flowering in the work ofAretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” who, after six years of notable work on Columbia Records, began her glorious reign in 1967 ...