Less than a month after his mysterious and tragic shooting, Sam was back in the charts with ‘Shake.’The sudden, shocking, and needless death of Sam Cooke in December 1964 deprived the world of music of one of its true originals. Countless fans of this superb vocal stylist, songwriter and performer were understandably inconsolable when they heard about his mysterious shooting at the age of just 33. Less than a month later, those fans gave Cooke his first posthumous hit. “Shake,” an infectious upbeat composition by Cooke himself, was recorded at his last studio session at RCA Studios in Hollywood,...
