'American Masters: Sam Cooke: Crossing Over'

The PBS series takes a respectful look at the life and death of the silky smooth singer, first in gospel and then in pop. Pop music has rarely sounded more elegantly silky than when Sam Cooke sang "You Send Me," the dreamily romantic 1957 hit that first put the Chicago singer and songwriter at the top of the national sales chart and primed him for a key role as African Americans started to assert real powe...

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