Research Catalog

Title

Dream boogie : the triumph of Sam Cooke / Peter Guralnick.

Author

Guralnick, Peter.

Publication

New York : Little, Brown, 2005.

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Description

xv, 750 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"He was the biggest star in gospel music before he ever crossed over into pop. His first single under his own name, "You Send Me," was an historic success, going to #1 on the charts and selling two million copies. He wrote his own songs, hired his own musicians, and started his own record label and music publishing company. At at time when record companies treated black artists like hired help, he demanded respect and a recording contract equal to that of top white artists of the day." "In a biography that for the first time tells the full story of Sam Cooke's short life, Dream Boogie re-creates in detail the richness of the African American world from which he emerged and the combination of style, wit and resiliency that was necessary to survive and overcome the pervasive prejudice of the day." "Dream Boogie tells a story at once tragic and true: Sam Cooke's rapid rise to stardom; his troubled marriage and relationships with women; his triumphant recording and, along with Ray Charles, reinvention of rhythm and blues as soul music; the joy he brought to live performance and the rolling parties of the road tours; and the senseless waste of his death by shooting at the age of thirty-three."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• African American sound recording executives and producers > Biography
• Soul musicians > United States > Biography
• Cooke, Sam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [707]-714), discography (p. [715]-716), and index.

ISBN

0316377945

LCCN

2005000077

OCLC

• ocm57393650
• SCSB-9438605

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries