The greatest song ever Diaries
On Oct 8th, 1963, although on tour, Cooke and associates of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to register in a white motel — an incident mirrored during the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the last