(ThyBlackMan.com) Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man with a velvet voice, raised on gospel, rooted in faith ...

Twistin' had been Sam Cooke's biggest UK hit of the sixties ... commercialism - but was paid back almost immediately when 'You Send Me' was an American number one. The church's loss was our ...