"Good News" #11 3/14/64 Bonus

We revisit March '64 and one off the final album released by Sam Cooke before his untimely death later that year. It was also the first album he'd done after his toddler son's accidental drowning. Tragic circumstances seemed to follow him around. This song was a reworking of an old spiritual. Sam started out singing gospel, then moved toward more secular stuff. His childhood friend on the West Side of Chicago was Lou Rawls, one of a very few who may have had a smoother voice than Sam.