From PBS.org:
THIRTEEN’s American Masters celebrates the wonderful world of music game-changer and definitive soul singer Sam Cooke in Sam Cooke: Crossing Over, airing Monday, January 11 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS.
Check out a brief preview video by clicking below:
TBGB NOTE: The only concern I have is the comment in the preview that “[Cooke] became lead vocalist for the popular gospel group The Soul Stirrers, heard in churches and jook joints and night clubs all along the Chitlin Circuit….”
The way this sentence is written suggests that the Soul Stirrers, not just Sam Cooke, sang in jook joints and night clubs. The Stirrers did no such thing. They appeared in churches, auditoriums, stadiums and theaters, but not jook joints or night clubs.
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Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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That’s right, Bob. Set the record straight!