The greatest song ever Diaries
On Oct 8th, 1963, when on tour, Cooke and customers of his entourage had been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace when they made an effort to sign up in a white motel — an incident mirrored in the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-aged son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the la