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"I think the trick is actually observation. Well, if you observe what's happening and make an effort to figure out how people are thinking, I believe you can always write something that people will understand." (Sam Cooke) A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. If Sam Cooke, one of the biggest African-American soul performers in the genre's background, have been Irish, he could have kept company with the likes of the fantastic balladeer and traditional tenor John McCormack. If he had been blessed Italian, he could have starred in the refined, lyrical Mozart opera roles usually reserved for people that have extreme musical awareness. Such was the level of superiority in Cooke's internal understanding of his own speech, which was with the capacity of exquisite classical precision and a finesse in phrasing that lay down far beyond typical. He could have prospered and obtained greatness in any genre of his choice, but taking into consideration the timing of the American audience and his African-American heritage, Sam Cooke instead pioneered a fresh genre and became its greatest practitioner by blending black musical customs that designed all the refinement and beauty of European classical genres yet still spoke from the center of his rural American roots.
