The Night Sam Cooke Died. Aretha Was Twenty-Two. (1964)

On December 11, 1964, Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles. He was thirty-three years old. Aretha Franklin was twenty-two — still at Columbia Records, still searching for the music she was going to make. Sam Cooke had been the one who showed her it was possible to carry the church voice into the secular world without losing it. She lost that guide before she finished making the crossing herself. 00:00 — December 11, 1964 02:30 — Who Sam Cooke was before the pop records 05:00 — What the crossing from gospel to secular cost — and what it proved 08:00 — What his example meant to Aretha specifically 10:30 — The three years between his death and Atlantic Records 13:00 — The road he built and the music she made on it #ArethaFranklin #SamCooke #ArethaFranklinDocumentary #QueenOfSoul #SoulMusicHistory #ClassicRnB #SamCooke1964 #GospelMusic #ArethaFranklinUntoldStory #OldSchoolRnB