Watch the trailer for ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke below. The documentary, featuring Dionne Warwick, Smokey Robinson, Quincy Jones and other music greats, seeks to explore longstanding theories that Cooke’s influence in music, his refusal to be silent on civil rights issues and friendship with Malcolm X, made him a target. Klein, who went on to manage the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, ended up owning the rights to Cooke’s music after his death. By 1963, Cooke entered into a five-year deal with music executive Allen Klein, but he didn’t live long enough to reap the benefits. Ma5:25pm Associated Press The story of Sam Cooke, the soulful singer-songwriter behind such hits as Wonderful World and Twistin’ the Night Away, is getting the big-screen treatment. He signed to RCA Records where he released the singles “Chain Gang” “Bring It On Home to Me,” “Twisting the Night Away” and more. Cooke also created a publishing and management company, Kags Music. Three years before he died, Cooke, his then manager, Roy Crain, and singer-songwriter J. On December 11, 1964, R&B legend Sam Cooke was shot to death by a hotel manager named Bertha Franklin. ![]() T-Pain's Rendition Of Sam Cooke's 'Change Is Gonna Come' Is So Good It's Great
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