![]() He yearned to write a gospel-tinged blues song featuring call-response in the form of a “backside” duet – a lead singer in concert with a strong vocal response. For someone who was a Chicagoan for more than half of his life, home had become not a physical place for Sam – but it was “about the people you left behind.” This was especially evident to him because he had lived his musical career out of a suitcase.Īs Sam Cooke rode in a rented limousine to the concert that evening in Georgia’s capital city, it all came together for him. The idea’s inspiration had actually sprung from soul singer Charles Brown’s 1959 R&B single, “I Want to Go Home,” a standard 12-bar blues number ladened with traditional call-response that had also been sautéed in a barrel full of soul.Ĭooke, who had been a gospel music prodigy before he was 18, had spent much of the preceding ten years on the road, though he now made Los Angeles his base. ![]() ![]() ‘He was a kind of champion for… cooling everybody out,’ said Dion DiMucci, and, as on the earlier tour, some of Dion’s most treasured memories were of singing with Sam backstage-” he was always so full of music.'”Īccording to Sam Cooke’s friends, the notion of the song had been stirring around in the singer/songwriter’s mind for weeks. Cooke’s biographer, Peter Guralnick, remembered: “Sam was the soothing influence who kept that tour together. Thus, a “mixed-race tour” in the Old Confederacy generated a wellspring of controversy. King, and Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts’ fame).Īt that time, racial tensions percolated just as the civil rights movement gained momentum. The King of Soul was headlining a lineup that included blues legend Solomon Burke, the Drifters, Dee Clark, B. ![]() The idea came to Sam Cooke on the evening of April 12, 1962, when he appeared at Atlanta’s Rhythm Rink while on an extended Henry Wynn Supersonic Tour of the South. ![]()
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