5 EASY FACTS ABOUT GREATEST SONG EVER DESCRIBED

On Oct 8th, 1963, even though on tour, Cooke and associates of his entourage had been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to register in a white motel — an incident mirrored inside the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-thirty day period-old son, Vincent, who drowned that June, res