Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music
Season 1 • Episode 2: The Gospel Highway: Sam Cooke • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: The Gospel Highway: Sam Cooke
May 14, 2005 • 60 min
Sam Cooke was gospel music's crown prince, the man who inspired a generation of singers when he took on the pop world and won. In the process he became soul music's first superstar. This episode follows Sam Cooke's career as he made the transition from gospel to pop, and profiles some of the artists who followed him: The Staple Singers, Ben E King, Solomon Burke and Johnnie Taylor.
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