INDICATORS ON GREATEST SONG EVER YOU SHOULD KNOW

On October 8th, 1963, while on tour, Cooke and members of his entourage had been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace once they attempted to sign-up in a white motel — an incident mirrored while in the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-previous son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates