In 2008, Sam Cooke was named the fourth "Greatest Singer of All Time" by Rolling Stone, with 29 hits in the U.S. top-40 between 1957 and 1964.
September 7, 1957
"You Send Me" reach #1 on the Billboard charts for a two week stay in December 1957, with sales estimated at a 1.5 million units.
Sam Cooke was shot to death in a cheap Los Angeles motel, December 11, 1964.
He was 33.
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