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The late, great Sam Cooke born this day in 1931. Here's the song which helped set the mood while your dad and mom watched the submarine races
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unlikely
2012-01-22 10:11:51 AM
Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
ChrisDe
2012-01-22 12:05:13 PM
I haven't heard "submarine races" in twenty years. LOL, subby.
Six_By_Nine
2012-01-22 12:17:41 PM
And I still love "Bring It On Home To Me"
/is off to watch Innerspace
Really I'm Black
2012-01-22 01:11:35 PM
love this song
/ such a smooth voice.
Hofheim
2012-01-22 01:13:13 PM
Well, yet another link I can't get to from Germany.
Of course, Germans don't generally use submarines for racing, so I guess I'm good here.
Igor Jakovsky
2012-01-22 01:19:50 PM
unlikely
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Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
My granddad would have been 10 in '31 my grandmother 5.
DeaH
2012-01-22 01:52:20 PM
unlikely
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Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was
born
in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his untimely death in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
RoyBatty
2012-01-22 01:59:51 PM
Sam Cooke: born 1931
Elvis Pressley: born 1935
Shirley Bassey: born 1937
Mick Jagger: born 1943
RoyBatty
2012-01-22 02:00:54 PM
Wonderful greenlite subby, thank you.
SharkTrager
2012-01-22 02:02:46 PM
Can't see him but at least
this link
(new window)has decent sound.
shower_in_my_socks
2012-01-22 02:02:47 PM
Cooke is one of my all-time favorites. His death is pretty (tragically) fascinating if you dig into the official story and then into what some folks think really happened.
SharkTrager
2012-01-22 02:03:42 PM
Or you could go with
this one
(new window).
archie leach
2012-01-22 02:06:44 PM
Any Sam Cooke thread that doesn't include this is pure 100% fail...
Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 - Bring It On Home To Me
(new window)
shower_in_my_socks
2012-01-22 02:06:52 PM
Tough to pick a favorite Sam Cooke song, but
the melody and his voice in Cupid is as good as it gets
.
ChubbyTiger
2012-01-22 02:18:03 PM
RoyBatty
:
Sam Cooke: born 1931
Elvis Pressley: born 1935
Shirley Bassey: born 1937
Mick Jagger: born 1943
Well, three talents out of four. Cooke was just magic, though I tend to prefer Sam and Dave most of the time.
Russ1642
2012-01-22 02:18:48 PM
That's the first time I've ever heard anyone other than my dad used the expression watch the submarine races.
ongbok
2012-01-22 02:30:12 PM
DeaH
:
unlikely: Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was born in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his
untimely death
murder in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
bedonkadonk
2012-01-22 03:12:31 PM
"You Send Me" was the song my wife and I chose to use for the first dance at our wedding reception.
cryinoutloud
2012-01-22 03:52:00 PM
I was so excited about this link that I just went and illegally downloaded several of his songs.
/love Sam Cooke
Mangoose
2012-01-22 04:13:37 PM
My favorite singer of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore".
DeaH
2012-01-22 04:17:14 PM
ongbok
:
DeaH: unlikely: Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was born in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his untimely death murder in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
ongbok, doesn't murder result in death?
MadameX
2012-01-22 04:20:02 PM
There's 2 types of old music:
Old good music -and-
Good old music
/that is all
ongbok
2012-01-22 04:47:37 PM
DeaH
:
ongbok: DeaH: unlikely: Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was born in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his untimely death murder in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
ongbok, doesn't murder result in death?
Yes it does. But would you say untimely death when talking about Abraham Lincoln or murder? Untimely death would lead one to think that he died of natural causes or in an accident.
Notabunny
2012-01-22 04:55:56 PM
Very nice,
Subby.
What a beautiful voice. I'll be humming that all day, now. Kinda creepy that you're probably right, but thanks for the afternoon uplift, anyway.
JoePiscopoJr.
2012-01-22 05:04:13 PM
archie leach
:
Any Sam Cooke thread that doesn't include this is pure 100% fail...
Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 - Bring It On Home To Me (new window)
That whole album is a beauty
the_rhino
2012-01-22 05:13:05 PM
SOPA
DeaH
2012-01-22 06:29:07 PM
ongbok
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DeaH: ongbok: DeaH: unlikely: Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was born in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his untimely death murder in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
ongbok, doesn't murder result in death?
Yes it does. But would you say untimely death when talking about Abraham Lincoln or murder? Untimely death would lead one to think that he died of natural causes or in an accident.
Based on my posts, you should be able to tell that I have no problem with using untimely death for one who was murdered at a youngish age. The fact that Sam Cook died before his time is tragic. The method of his death is less important than the fact that his life was cut short, at least to me. On the other hand, if you want to use murder in your posts, I won't correct you.
That would be dickish.
/And, yes, the fact that Lincoln's death was untimely is more important than the fact that he was murdered. That is because his life was important, more important than the way it ended.
Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel
2012-01-22 07:51:54 PM
bedonkadonk
:
"You Send Me" was the song my wife and I chose to use for the first dance at our wedding reception.
It's the song I want used when my ashes are shot into space.
brantgoose
2012-01-22 08:57:26 PM
I bought some Sam Cooke cassettes when Sam the Record Man was having a sale. They went out of business not long after, so maybe it was a going-out-of-business sale.
Everything old is new again on the web.
unlikely
2012-01-22 11:00:49 PM
DeaH
:
unlikely: Mom and dad? How the hell old are you, Submitter? I think that might even be too early for my grandparents...
Sam Cooke was born in '31. He didn't start making music until the 50s. He continued making music up to his untimely death in the mid 60s. His songs were played (and very popular) throughout the 70s and 80s. Cook remains popular today.
I am assuming you typed your question using iEmbryo.
That song: popular in 1957.
My grandparents: Married 1960.
My mom: born 1961.
They might have been listening to it but it was an oldie.
RoyBatty
2012-01-23 12:53:50 AM
I can't get it out of my head!
T.rex
2012-01-23 02:01:54 PM
If the rumors of his last day is true, then he's scum, though i do like his Change is Gonna Come song when they used it in Spike Lee's Malcolm X movie.
T.rex
2012-01-23 04:56:46 PM
Actually, i retract what i just said... Sounds like the poor guy was robbed, and they made it look like HE was the bad guy.
mrmyxolodian
2012-01-23 09:16:46 PM
Loves me some Sam Cooke.
Thanks.
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