Sam Cooke inspires me so much. Every lyric every thing about him. Even people with years and years of entertainment behind them cant reach this power he had vocally.
This guy was a genious and was killed just because he was black. He stood for civil rights and that's why the white hotel manager shot him dead, with a complot! He didn't cheat, they cheated.. It's a shame! Because he was the greatest singer who ever lived. He never had to force his voice. Just amazing!!
@Cristofor13 I am listenng to him! I will be 16 years old and I so REALLY like this song! And I wish that he was still alive and singing for us now! RIP :( Even though he was before my time, he was by far one of my favorite singers!!! I love Sam Cooke! :):)
So him been nude and all she claimed that she tried to beat him back with a broom,but it didn't work,(maybe he was drunk,so she shot him.)But another singer who claimed she viewed the body,said that his head was crushed ,and his hands and nose broken,and no way a female could do that,with a broom of all things.But it was ruled self defense.She was convinced that he was murdered, probably set up.The other female left the hotel with cookes clothing and claimed he tried to rape her.
well the report said that he was found in a hotel/motel.It claimed he went there with a woman,and maybe she wanted to rob him or she was used a bait.But she left, maybe with his cash or other things,maybe when he went to shower.It further stated that he came looking for her,and had no clothes on, only a jacket,and the owner/manger who is female thought he was aggressive.She drew her gun and told him to back off, but he still advanced menacingly demanding to know where the lady was.
i grew up hearing these songs but never really knew who sung them until got bigger.Almost every oldie if i hear them now, i realize that they are familiar, as i heard it as a toddler.
HI iakaazabuza thanks for your answer thought there was some mystery yo his death , however dont know when it was but he was almost certainly very talented , maybe somone jealous. rip sam cooke.
@castlebar67 It's still a bit of a mystery, never was cleared up. From everything I've read on the subject it looks like a cover-up, but due to the limitations of crime-solving in that decade it was buried.
@IAKIZabuza That is partially correct indeed. they say, he was 'raping' a girl, she escaped he tried to find her and stumbled on the manager of the hotel. he was aggresive and she took her american right. and shot him 3 times. They say his last words were: lady you shot me. I guess we'll never know if he was going to rape the women. if he really was aggresive etc. What we do know is he is awesome and he should have been here this day.
GOD IF THERE ARE ANGELS SINGING THEY WUD SOUND LIKE SAM COOKE PATSY CLINE ARETHA FRANKLINE CONNIE FRANCIS AND TAMMY WYNETTE JUS A FEW FINE ARTISTS THIS MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE PASSED THROUGH TO A NEW GENERATION X
@mrmillion94 Yes, in the song he is sixteen. Listen to the lyrics "why did I give my heart so fast? it never will happen again. But I was a mere lad of sixteen, I've aged a year since then"
when i was young in the 70s i heard sam was shot by his wife or girl friend, it shows how true rumor are. he was shot by a hotel manager. he was only 33 what a shame. and just 11 days short of jfk. 1 year annaiversary assassination, soo sad.
@hbrookes rapping, singing, acting, (the list goes on)...they are all diferrent forms of art, which means they all are gonna be different from each other, i'm a rapper myself 20 yrs of age, why do you think i'm here listening to sam cooke?...it's because i appreciate hardwork and talent my friend, in short it's wrong for you to say that "rappers have nothing worth saying or remembering" because there are alot of rapers out there that have have everything worth saying and remembering.
@capitalmindz Maybe if you listened to the song, you would hear Sam say, HE was a lad of 16 as well. And if you live in one of the 28 states where the legal age of consent is 16, it's not statutory anyway.
@DelinquentBilly Yeah tell me about it... but it's so annoying when you get a handful of people saying the same thing, thinking they're being equally clever while being equally unoriginal.
They're both 16 at the time, if one is guilty of statutory then the other one would be to.
Point is... people should stop outing themselves as pedo's by pointing this out without grasping the context of the song... so stop pls! (not you who i'm replying to).
@IAKIZabuza This is an innocent song about a young man who fell in love with a girl who was not ready for a relationship. It isn't always about sex, and "statutory", and the like. There was more respect for young women at the time I first heard this song. Wish it were that way again, but with television, movies, popular and rap songs, a song like "Black Pearl" would be laughed at by the modern crtwd.. Too bad for them. Too bad for all of us..
@yuckydoo123 Yeah thanks for that, easy to lose sight of what the song is about when you get all these nitwits trying to be funny. Always comforting to see people on the level though to counter the waves of buffoons that usually dominate youtube comments.
I was 12 when this song was released in 1959. At the same time a young girls body was found in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her name was Barbara Harding. She was only sixteen. Sad reminder
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Here I sit with my gray hair and an aged face. As I listen to this I remember long ago when she was "only sixteen" and so was I. It breaks my heart in a sweet sorrow sort of way. The Sam Cooke sound takes me back to a better place and time, and if only for a short time, my heart is young again.
Here I sit with my gray hair and an aged face. As I listen to this I remember long ago when when she was "only sixteen" and so was I. It breaks my heart in a sweet sorrow sort of way. The Sam Cooke sound takes me back to a better place and time, and if only for a short time, my heart is young again.
Tjhis wasn't a very big hit in the UK but the cover version by Craig Douglas got to No.1 in the charts. Both version s are good but this has more "soul".
Solo Dieciséis, es una canción que fue interpretadas por numerosos cantantes de los años 50s y 60s, pero ninguno la interpreto con la genialidad de su voz, suave y transparente. San Cook era un maestro de la entonación y modulación de la voz que le daba un toque mágico a cada una de sus interpretaciones.
you all may say im too young to understand this type of music but im luv old skool music i listen too it more then new skool music nd i even ask for sam cook cd on my birthday
rap is poetry ? LMFAO what's poetic about an uneducated ghetto dirt bag who dropped out of school to be a pimp or a drug dealer or a killer bitching because he can't get a legal job ,cops are always on his ass and he can't go by a store without robbing it.
Rappers have a lot to say, but nothing worth hearing.
They act like they're the first people to have a reason to be unhappy and dwelling on it is a good thing.
SInce the 60's and the arrival of modern liberalism we witnessed the death of classical beauty, wisdom and art in favor of narcasissm and bitterness. Listen to music popular in the great depression, it was all uplifting. It's no wonder our culture is in decline. We bathe ourselves in a steady diet of angry trash.
@TheJediCharles your blaming you music and artists for people's depression shame on you, we are held responsible for our own actions, no matter what may attempt to influence us, so i don't blame rap, i listen to all music an rap doesn't make me depressed or angry, and all music allows us to dwell on certain sistuations and on goings in our life, it doesn't mean they make us choose our paths, that is our doing, so if your doing wrong don't find a scape goat because that is cheap, an childish!
@TheJediCharles you are obviously listeing to the wrong kind of hip hop real hip hop devires from soul music like this the stuff u hear on the radio isnt hip hop real hip hop is common nas talib kweli jay electronica
I'm sure there are exceptions, like everything has. That doesn't mean the rule is proven wrong. Despite the noble exceptions, overwhelmingly rap has low commonality. Mainstream rap is what I was referring to. What makes it all worse is mainstream music awards endorse it. Cee Lo Green, Grammy Nominee For Song of The Year?
If there's "better rap" we don't hear, I suppose that's nice, but it's small solace. Good music we don't hear doesn't overpower the harm of what we do hear.
@TheJediCharles Rappers might just have a way of expressing or releasing their anger in a way that you don't like. I love Sam Cooke, but there is also a lot of good music out there that was released after the 60's. I'm sure people of Sam's time called some of his more pop-ish or rock like tunes "noise" or "trash". You don't have to trash other music in order to point out how amazing Sam Cooke is. His voice speaks for itself.
@TheJediCharles I respect your opinion and right to dislike rap. I didn't mean any offense. Just saying, one man's "trash" might be another man's "Sam Cooke".
Thanks, bu there's nothing you said that I hadn't already considered. More importantly, I didn't "trash rap to point out how amazin' Sam is." Both are separate issues. I don't have to choose which I wish to say out of my qualms with rap or my admiration of Sam. I can say both at once, can tie them together in a comment board, and throw in other generational commentary and it's just fine.
@TheJediCharles wow, I'm really sorry if I offended you. I wasn't trying to start an argument. I totally agree that you can say whatever you want. You don't have to like rap either. I was simply trying to state my opinion that there has been some music that I consider beautiful since the 60's. I'm sorry if you thought I was trying to change your mind, or say that you were wrong.
We're not arguing. Perhaps you're reading my comments and putting a mean voice to them. I've been merely chatting since square one. Don't be so sensitive or presume I'm sensitive when I'm not annoyed at all.
@TheJediCharles you know why the only music that survives from that period is all sunny and happy? censorship. ahh, the wonderful pre-60s. when we had separate drinking fountains. "modern liberalism"... yeah, the civil rights movement exposed us white suburban baby boomers to so many unpleasant things! nobody has it soooo hard! this is the word's smallest violin playing just for you jedicharles. some people...
Exploit? Do you see any ads on it? We don't make anything off it, buddy. We've enjoyed requests for it's use in everything from dentists offices, video educators, to art classes and all the world around. We made it to share joy and a sense of wonder to others and not a penny or personal notoriety. My daughter has been the decision maker over it and wants it were it is.
In the meantime, fuck you for thinking you're in a position to judge us. Fuck you and your angry will.
You freak. Obviously, none of your videos have ever been worth getting an invite from "Ad Sense" to get paid for ad appearances on them. You can't distinguish between which an account gets paid for and which not.
None of this matters anyway. Here you are thinking your opinion here matters so much that you're qualified to get between a parent and their own kid and pass judgement... and you call ME the narcissist?
@MissMelanie2006 u obviously don't know rap if that's what u think it's all about. please, don't talk about something if u don't know ur facts. and that goes for anything. people these days...
@kremeztutorials rap today is not poetry the mainstream stuff isnt. i keep it old school. q tip is poetry mos def is poetry... but to the point rap sucks these days
@mjjcng8958 well that mainstream stuff isn't rap. thats poppy stuff, or as people like to say, "hip pop". q tip and mos def, definitely poets. lupe is good too, even tho he's kind of mainstream (but not exactly). well even so, i'll admit i like some of the mainstream music. but that's just me, i like ALL different kinds. i like to expand my taste. but u kno, it's w/e
@MissMelanie2006 - Ok true this is a beautiful song and there are definitely not songs as beautiful and soothing as this anymore (i was born in '91) but i honestly think you watch WAAAAYYY to much tv rap, there are plenty of great poets still out there, just not on your tv set trust me....but yes this is legendary music no doubt :)
How was this guy so good his melodies and voice are so silky. I love his music the r n b singers now can't make a song past that year this still sounds good and is still relevant
Lol
miraslam2000 4 days ago
Volotwtw
miraslam2000 4 days ago
Sam Cooke inspires me so much. Every lyric every thing about him. Even people with years and years of entertainment behind them cant reach this power he had vocally.
CWPLWP2010 2 weeks ago
you are alwaus on my mind!!
aesopvrpg 3 weeks ago
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This guy was a genious and was killed just because he was black. He stood for civil rights and that's why the white hotel manager shot him dead, with a complot! He didn't cheat, they cheated.. It's a shame! Because he was the greatest singer who ever lived. He never had to force his voice. Just amazing!!
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ElivGizzle9 3 weeks ago
ITS NEVER A GOOD IDEA TO BAIT AND SWITCH, SHOWS POOR JUDGEMENT.
digitalfuk 1 month ago
Happy Sweet 16 to me...great song to remember hearing on my 16th birthday as i grow older.
Ladawn131 1 month ago
i wish to be sixteen again
SuperBig1231 1 month ago
Who still listening Sam Cooke in 2012?\m/
Cristofor13 1 month ago 15
@Cristofor13 Me and I wasn't even born until he was already dead. So there, smartypants, NOT.
Sasyykat2u 3 weeks ago
@Cristofor13 I am listenng to him! I will be 16 years old and I so REALLY like this song! And I wish that he was still alive and singing for us now! RIP :( Even though he was before my time, he was by far one of my favorite singers!!! I love Sam Cooke! :):)
ilovepeoplesamcooke 2 weeks ago
1964!!
i am happy about i can know who you are!
aesopvrpg 1 month ago
Wow i had no idea he was killed :( i've loved his music since i first heard it from my dads cds. Great singer R.I.P
RavenTalis 1 month ago
@RavenTalis y7our dad has cds lol lol
cory8791 4 weeks ago
@cory8791 Because he's an elderly gentleman who doesn’t know how to work an iPod :)
RavenTalis 3 weeks ago
aauuww . So true..
thomasdk19851 1 month ago
So him been nude and all she claimed that she tried to beat him back with a broom,but it didn't work,(maybe he was drunk,so she shot him.)But another singer who claimed she viewed the body,said that his head was crushed ,and his hands and nose broken,and no way a female could do that,with a broom of all things.But it was ruled self defense.She was convinced that he was murdered, probably set up.The other female left the hotel with cookes clothing and claimed he tried to rape her.
Ras09true 1 month ago
well the report said that he was found in a hotel/motel.It claimed he went there with a woman,and maybe she wanted to rob him or she was used a bait.But she left, maybe with his cash or other things,maybe when he went to shower.It further stated that he came looking for her,and had no clothes on, only a jacket,and the owner/manger who is female thought he was aggressive.She drew her gun and told him to back off, but he still advanced menacingly demanding to know where the lady was.
Ras09true 1 month ago
i grew up hearing these songs but never really knew who sung them until got bigger.Almost every oldie if i hear them now, i realize that they are familiar, as i heard it as a toddler.
Ras09true 1 month ago
I heard he had sex with a woman who was married and the husband shot him ... Idk . But RIP samm <3
jjjakira 1 month ago
love this song so much!!!!!!
MickTV15 1 month ago
This version is good, but Craig Douglas does it better. The Heptones also do a great rendition.
madblurb 1 month ago
@madblurb douglas does a fair job but doesn't have cooke's quality of voice. i guess everybody has his opinion.
denisjl100 2 weeks ago
Can't we all just stop fighting, just enjoy the music and the way it makes you feel.
VincyRootz 1 month ago
ps about his death sorry . bless.
castlebar67 1 month ago
HI iakaazabuza thanks for your answer thought there was some mystery yo his death , however dont know when it was but he was almost certainly very talented , maybe somone jealous. rip sam cooke.
castlebar67 1 month ago
you could never do this today
ismcb4sc 2 months ago
hi brialliant artist great voice shame hes gone rip . . . did he get murdered or something i heard dont know anyway he was great bless him forever
castlebar67 2 months ago
@castlebar67 It's still a bit of a mystery, never was cleared up. From everything I've read on the subject it looks like a cover-up, but due to the limitations of crime-solving in that decade it was buried.
IAKIZabuza 2 months ago
@IAKIZabuza If I remember correctly. He was shot cheating with some woman. I was very sad. He has a great voice
benjessdane175 3 weeks ago
@IAKIZabuza That is partially correct indeed. they say, he was 'raping' a girl, she escaped he tried to find her and stumbled on the manager of the hotel. he was aggresive and she took her american right. and shot him 3 times. They say his last words were: lady you shot me. I guess we'll never know if he was going to rape the women. if he really was aggresive etc. What we do know is he is awesome and he should have been here this day.
MultiFroggies 2 weeks ago
Sam Cooke is a LEGEND! The man was talented!
tandyee 2 months ago
Sweet song, Sam Cooke has the most beautiful voice--too bad he's gone!
Hard to believe, but if he were still alive he'd be 80 years old!! Is that right?
Thanx for this upload.
janspray 2 months ago
GOD IF THERE ARE ANGELS SINGING THEY WUD SOUND LIKE SAM COOKE PATSY CLINE ARETHA FRANKLINE CONNIE FRANCIS AND TAMMY WYNETTE JUS A FEW FINE ARTISTS THIS MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE PASSED THROUGH TO A NEW GENERATION X
dreamsmaycometrue1 2 months ago
Sam Cooke was one of the truly greats in American music. I just hope he is not forgotten as many have been.
BurtShank 2 months ago
was he 16 as well? otherwise this is wrong. Great voice though.
mrmillion94 2 months ago
@mrmillion94 Yes, in the song he is sixteen. Listen to the lyrics "why did I give my heart so fast? it never will happen again. But I was a mere lad of sixteen, I've aged a year since then"
ask3491 2 months ago
Young love...the best!
delorismcneill 2 months ago
How old was she ?
szabo060990 2 months ago
@capitalmindz lmao. The same thought crossed my mind... "Times was different"
joshuwa88 2 months ago
I was born in 1991 and this is my favourite song at the moment!
badlittledragon 3 months ago
amazing vocal what would life be like without music ?
Frossi666 3 months ago
is this song about a underage chick??? jus kidding yall! GREAT SONG BY SAM....
jodymeach 3 months ago
NOTHING LIKE SAM COOKE!!
HE WAS THE BEST, LOVE TO DANCE TO HIS MUSIC!
GREAT CHA,CHA RIGHT HERE
cynthia6637 3 months ago
@22metzfan "i was a mere lad of 16"
x1star1x 3 months ago
such sweet childish memories...the logic of teens...like elderberry wine..
robwheelut 3 months ago
I'm turning 16 tomorrow, wow I'm young
CandeCh 3 months ago
back then not. my grand mother was 16 when she became a mother.
cannoir 4 months ago
@22metzfan It ain't rape if they Like my good man lol
91mozz 4 months ago
@22metzfan Not in New Zealand it ain't, heh heh heh
swams0 4 months ago
i like how you capitolize the "me" in "..and you call ME the narcissist?" you gotta admit, that's pretty funny.
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
Why is everyone on here bashing Rap?? I came here to listen to SAM COOKE not give my take on rap -__-
jjacks97 4 months ago
My Friend (who is a girl ;) ) has asked me to learn this song by her birthday next month.
Ukuleleboy100 4 months ago
when i was young in the 70s i heard sam was shot by his wife or girl friend, it shows how true rumor are. he was shot by a hotel manager. he was only 33 what a shame. and just 11 days short of jfk. 1 year annaiversary assassination, soo sad.
tryby12 4 months ago
Stop arguing about the legal age of consent. It is a love song! Listen to the music!
daverow49 5 months ago
you can't be in a bad mood after listening to sam cooke. i would have loved to see him live
rebel4dean 5 months ago
great song, love sam cook i grew up with my parents playing music like this, so it always takes me back to being a kid in the 80's.
heavensdoor19 5 months ago
Rap will never transcend like the true classics!! rappers have nothing worth saying or remembering.
hbrookes 5 months ago
@hbrookes rapping, singing, acting, (the list goes on)...they are all diferrent forms of art, which means they all are gonna be different from each other, i'm a rapper myself 20 yrs of age, why do you think i'm here listening to sam cooke?...it's because i appreciate hardwork and talent my friend, in short it's wrong for you to say that "rappers have nothing worth saying or remembering" because there are alot of rapers out there that have have everything worth saying and remembering.
salimsumra 4 months ago
@capitalmindz fuck up
DrMonkeyBoyJr 5 months ago
@capitalmindz Maybe if you listened to the song, you would hear Sam say, HE was a lad of 16 as well. And if you live in one of the 28 states where the legal age of consent is 16, it's not statutory anyway.
NoSteveNoPoint 5 months ago
EXTRA utwór. Podziękowania
53Ewa 5 months ago
@capitalmindz got dropped on your head as a kid i guess?
always one spoiling a classic song, i love this tune
top upload thankyou :)
oldcomputers69 5 months ago
The age of consent varies by location. In the US, it is between 16 and 18 depending on the state. The majority of states have it set at 16.
bobiscool1232002 5 months ago
Great tune.
Barragg 6 months ago
@capitalmindz Not clever, not funny, and not correct... He even mentions that he's a "lad of 16".
If you wanna claim statutory on something search for "young girl" by Gary pucket and the union gap band.
IAKIZabuza 6 months ago 3
@IAKIZabuza it's still statutory.... -.-
SeliShadows 6 months ago
@SeliShadows technically one person needs to be below the age of concent so in that way it would be, but show me where the law says it is.
IAKIZabuza 6 months ago
@IAKIZabuza LOL we've way over analyzed a song about two kids
DelinquentBilly 5 months ago
@DelinquentBilly Yeah tell me about it... but it's so annoying when you get a handful of people saying the same thing, thinking they're being equally clever while being equally unoriginal.
They're both 16 at the time, if one is guilty of statutory then the other one would be to.
Point is... people should stop outing themselves as pedo's by pointing this out without grasping the context of the song... so stop pls! (not you who i'm replying to).
IAKIZabuza 5 months ago
@IAKIZabuza 100% correct!!! i love this song - so let´s enjoy ;)
fhawkinsozer 5 months ago
@SeliShadows In the MAJORITY of States,( including my own) the legal age of consent is 16. So it's not Statutory.. WISE UP!
NoSteveNoPoint 5 months ago
@IAKIZabuza This is an innocent song about a young man who fell in love with a girl who was not ready for a relationship. It isn't always about sex, and "statutory", and the like. There was more respect for young women at the time I first heard this song. Wish it were that way again, but with television, movies, popular and rap songs, a song like "Black Pearl" would be laughed at by the modern crtwd.. Too bad for them. Too bad for all of us..
yuckydoo123 5 months ago 6
@yuckydoo123 Yeah thanks for that, easy to lose sight of what the song is about when you get all these nitwits trying to be funny. Always comforting to see people on the level though to counter the waves of buffoons that usually dominate youtube comments.
IAKIZabuza 5 months ago
@IAKIZabuza good shit
DrMonkeyBoyJr 5 months ago
Sam Da Man from Da Land Of Devastating Characters ! Great Singer !
B4BoomersBlockBoy7 6 months ago
I was 12 when this song was released in 1959. At the same time a young girls body was found in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her name was Barbara Harding. She was only sixteen. Sad reminder
Bouah01 6 months ago
I DJ at WPKN 89.5 in Bridgeport with my friends and I played this song my first time at the control panel :) Great night.
Will333P 6 months ago
Sixteen Sixteen Sixteen, This is Math all over again
BazooWazoo 6 months ago
MAN SAM COOKE HAD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE!!
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@bencoleone says: AN SAM COOKE HAD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And, a face to go with it!
Sueezee1 7 months ago
Im only sixteen :) I love this song<3
I want moore of this :D
SuperCuteButterfly 7 months ago 2
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she was only 16
dafahaguyanu 7 months ago
im 17 and i wish music was more like this nowerdays..
fishbreeder09 7 months ago 6
This guy had a wonderful voice.. the best always die young..
stopdong22 7 months ago 28
@stopdong22
Straker1923 4 months ago
(1) He looks like Denzel Washington. (2) He didn't deserve to die so young. (3) He is a legend, because his music will never die.
astraelios 7 months ago
yall think r kelly bump dis shit
Trealog31 7 months ago 3
Sam Cooke: the gateway for Marvin Gaye and all others. Truly a phenomenal talent.
gore53 7 months ago
that happens when you're young and dumb and full of cum.
MultiHondaa 7 months ago
trust mi i no what your talking about Bro........
danblackberry1 7 months ago
Then why did you give your heart so fast?
xZippy38 8 months ago
at 0:20, does he say, and do Cokain?
astraelios 8 months ago
@astraelios it doesnt...
NE9JFH 7 months ago
@astraelios -No it doesn't, wt?
mrshernandez 7 months ago
@astraelios we'd laugh and we'd sing, and do the little things, that made our hearts glow.
txdrifter38 7 months ago
@txdrifter38 ah :) thank you
astraelios 7 months ago
i wish he was still living
MichieXP 8 months ago 3
@MichieXP He will always live in our hearts.
astraelios 7 months ago
Woo, Sam is good, as usual.
Paragons have nice soulful rocksteady cover, the first time i have hear this song.
LeshaOgonkov 8 months ago
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Hey, I’m a young artist, & I would really appreciate it if everyone would check out my cover of Michael Bublé’s “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You.” Although I’m knowledgeable that Michael Bublé was not the first to record the song, my version was inspired by his rendition, nonetheless. I promise you that you will not regret giving my version of the song a listen, & it will truly knock you off of your feet! So please listen & enjoy! Thanks!
Cerandubois 8 months ago
3 dislikes? Seriously??
mlaprarie 8 months ago
@mlaprarie 3 people missed the like button.
R0b1zzle137 8 months ago
i had my first dance with my dad to this song at my sweet sixteen ,,,,great memories
superwoman10ify 8 months ago
the group is called dr hook
buster1088 8 months ago
actually. look up any recent rkelly song. bet you'll hear this type of music in him.
ImmaaStarr 8 months ago
Who did a cover of this? I know there's a more rock one?
tehbezza 8 months ago
@tehbezza
Dr Hook.
QueenReigns1 7 months ago
nice clean copy and stereo ,what else can you want
lonekimono10 9 months ago
Here I sit with my gray hair and an aged face. As I listen to this I remember long ago when she was "only sixteen" and so was I. It breaks my heart in a sweet sorrow sort of way. The Sam Cooke sound takes me back to a better place and time, and if only for a short time, my heart is young again.
killsprettyenemy 9 months ago 40
@killsprettyenemy you sound like someone who i would enjoy to just sit and talk with!!! memories brother!!!!!!
MrColeycole22 4 months ago
@killsprettyenemy what a beautiful memory and voice to us, who love the idea of days past, and a quality of life.
lindamac53 3 months ago
Here I sit with my gray hair and an aged face. As I listen to this I remember long ago when when she was "only sixteen" and so was I. It breaks my heart in a sweet sorrow sort of way. The Sam Cooke sound takes me back to a better place and time, and if only for a short time, my heart is young again.
killsprettyenemy 9 months ago
one of my top 5 all-time favorite male singers. he had so many hits too
jgk381 9 months ago
You can't find music like this anymore!! I grew up listening to 50's and 60's!! Love it, and can't get enough of it!!
dayboys22 9 months ago
HEY U GUYS im only 2 yrs old n i cant get enough of these oldies... but i hate my generations music
618463 9 months ago
I'm only sixteen... Sam makes my heart glow:)
1EllaBennett 9 months ago 6
Tjhis wasn't a very big hit in the UK but the cover version by Craig Douglas got to No.1 in the charts. Both version s are good but this has more "soul".
trackieben 9 months ago
Solo Dieciséis es una hermosa canción cantada por Sam Cook. el le da el mayor toque de emoción y sentimiento que ningún otro interprete
leonardo42766 9 months ago
Solo Dieciséis, es una canción que fue interpretadas por numerosos cantantes de los años 50s y 60s, pero ninguno la interpreto con la genialidad de su voz, suave y transparente. San Cook era un maestro de la entonación y modulación de la voz que le daba un toque mágico a cada una de sus interpretaciones.
leonardo42766 9 months ago
Im 22 and havent aged enough to understand this
EPFstrength5 9 months ago
Boy do i was i was still 16 Paula
lilmano9 10 months ago
my daddy had this played at my sixtenth. :) love this man. grew up with him.
littlekatiej84 10 months ago
I'm 19 and I love Sam Cooke a singer of masterpieces
smcevoy91 10 months ago
you can't beat this music brilliant absolutely brilliant
Woolgar61 10 months ago
@Woolgar61
Brilliant is the word for which I was searching.
justcruisingby 10 months ago
i can't believe he died almost 50 years ago..i know my kids and grandkids will know his songs 20-30years from now
zp1zpz 10 months ago 26
@zp1zpz
Great talent will always survive.
justcruisingby 10 months ago
you all may say im too young to understand this type of music but im luv old skool music i listen too it more then new skool music nd i even ask for sam cook cd on my birthday
FelderFamily1 10 months ago
so sad what happen to him
boobeejoo 11 months ago
im only young but i have listened to all the old songs for like ever
The99lilray 11 months ago 2
rap is poetry ? LMFAO what's poetic about an uneducated ghetto dirt bag who dropped out of school to be a pimp or a drug dealer or a killer bitching because he can't get a legal job ,cops are always on his ass and he can't go by a store without robbing it.
MissMelanie2006 11 months ago
@MissMelanie2006 Rappers has a lot to say too. There's different kinds of poetries, alright?
spungoo 11 months ago
@spungoo
Rappers have a lot to say, but nothing worth hearing.
They act like they're the first people to have a reason to be unhappy and dwelling on it is a good thing.
SInce the 60's and the arrival of modern liberalism we witnessed the death of classical beauty, wisdom and art in favor of narcasissm and bitterness. Listen to music popular in the great depression, it was all uplifting. It's no wonder our culture is in decline. We bathe ourselves in a steady diet of angry trash.
TheJediCharles 11 months ago 34
@TheJediCharles your blaming you music and artists for people's depression shame on you, we are held responsible for our own actions, no matter what may attempt to influence us, so i don't blame rap, i listen to all music an rap doesn't make me depressed or angry, and all music allows us to dwell on certain sistuations and on goings in our life, it doesn't mean they make us choose our paths, that is our doing, so if your doing wrong don't find a scape goat because that is cheap, an childish!
kazmaniandevil1 5 months ago
@TheJediCharles you are obviously listeing to the wrong kind of hip hop real hip hop devires from soul music like this the stuff u hear on the radio isnt hip hop real hip hop is common nas talib kweli jay electronica
MrClennon18 4 months ago
@MrClennon18
I'm sure there are exceptions, like everything has. That doesn't mean the rule is proven wrong. Despite the noble exceptions, overwhelmingly rap has low commonality. Mainstream rap is what I was referring to. What makes it all worse is mainstream music awards endorse it. Cee Lo Green, Grammy Nominee For Song of The Year?
If there's "better rap" we don't hear, I suppose that's nice, but it's small solace. Good music we don't hear doesn't overpower the harm of what we do hear.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago 2
@TheJediCharles Rappers might just have a way of expressing or releasing their anger in a way that you don't like. I love Sam Cooke, but there is also a lot of good music out there that was released after the 60's. I'm sure people of Sam's time called some of his more pop-ish or rock like tunes "noise" or "trash". You don't have to trash other music in order to point out how amazing Sam Cooke is. His voice speaks for itself.
riah851 4 months ago
@riah851
So does my comment.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
@TheJediCharles I respect your opinion and right to dislike rap. I didn't mean any offense. Just saying, one man's "trash" might be another man's "Sam Cooke".
riah851 4 months ago
@riah851
Thanks, bu there's nothing you said that I hadn't already considered. More importantly, I didn't "trash rap to point out how amazin' Sam is." Both are separate issues. I don't have to choose which I wish to say out of my qualms with rap or my admiration of Sam. I can say both at once, can tie them together in a comment board, and throw in other generational commentary and it's just fine.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
@TheJediCharles wow, I'm really sorry if I offended you. I wasn't trying to start an argument. I totally agree that you can say whatever you want. You don't have to like rap either. I was simply trying to state my opinion that there has been some music that I consider beautiful since the 60's. I'm sorry if you thought I was trying to change your mind, or say that you were wrong.
riah851 4 months ago
@riah851
We're not arguing. Perhaps you're reading my comments and putting a mean voice to them. I've been merely chatting since square one. Don't be so sensitive or presume I'm sensitive when I'm not annoyed at all.
Relax.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
@TheJediCharles listen to immortal technique, akir , reassess your life.
kungfufreddy 4 months ago
@kungfufreddy
Not likely.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
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squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
@TheJediCharles you know why the only music that survives from that period is all sunny and happy? censorship. ahh, the wonderful pre-60s. when we had separate drinking fountains. "modern liberalism"... yeah, the civil rights movement exposed us white suburban baby boomers to so many unpleasant things! nobody has it soooo hard! this is the word's smallest violin playing just for you jedicharles. some people...
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
@squeakyfromme69
Your name says it all.
Happy to have struck your nerve. Sorry didn't with me, but you had nothing to say I haven't heard before.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
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@TheJediCharles probably because it's true. filth. douche.
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
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@TheJediCharles keep exploiting your kids for youtube hits. it builds character.
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
@squeakyfromme69
Exploit? Do you see any ads on it? We don't make anything off it, buddy. We've enjoyed requests for it's use in everything from dentists offices, video educators, to art classes and all the world around. We made it to share joy and a sense of wonder to others and not a penny or personal notoriety. My daughter has been the decision maker over it and wants it were it is.
In the meantime, fuck you for thinking you're in a position to judge us. Fuck you and your angry will.
TheJediCharles 4 months ago 7
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squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
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@TheJediCharles sell it!
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
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yes. i see ads on it. right there where it says "TheJediCharles". who's the narcissist now?????
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
@squeakyfromme69
You freak. Obviously, none of your videos have ever been worth getting an invite from "Ad Sense" to get paid for ad appearances on them. You can't distinguish between which an account gets paid for and which not.
None of this matters anyway. Here you are thinking your opinion here matters so much that you're qualified to get between a parent and their own kid and pass judgement... and you call ME the narcissist?
Wow, you're badly in need of a shut the hell up.
Badly.
DO IT!
TheJediCharles 4 months ago
@TheJediCharles does this mean we're not going to be facebook friends?
squeakyfromme69 4 months ago
@MissMelanie2006 u obviously don't know rap if that's what u think it's all about. please, don't talk about something if u don't know ur facts. and that goes for anything. people these days...
kremeztutorials 11 months ago
@kremeztutorials rap today is not poetry the mainstream stuff isnt. i keep it old school. q tip is poetry mos def is poetry... but to the point rap sucks these days
mjjcng8958 11 months ago
@mjjcng8958 well that mainstream stuff isn't rap. thats poppy stuff, or as people like to say, "hip pop". q tip and mos def, definitely poets. lupe is good too, even tho he's kind of mainstream (but not exactly). well even so, i'll admit i like some of the mainstream music. but that's just me, i like ALL different kinds. i like to expand my taste. but u kno, it's w/e
kremeztutorials 11 months ago
@kremeztutorials well i dont knock you though.
mjjcng8958 11 months ago
@MissMelanie2006 - Ok true this is a beautiful song and there are definitely not songs as beautiful and soothing as this anymore (i was born in '91) but i honestly think you watch WAAAAYYY to much tv rap, there are plenty of great poets still out there, just not on your tv set trust me....but yes this is legendary music no doubt :)
jjacks97 11 months ago 5
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@ghettoblaster100 until recently, rap WAS poetry. almost. no, not even.
TheGidgetinator 11 months ago
@ghettoblaster100 untilrecntly, rap WAS poetry. almost. no, not even.
TheGidgetinator 11 months ago
im only 15 years old and i know what good music is and this it sam cooke you are a god.
1489kg 11 months ago 2
@1489kg me too bro
GhettoBlaster100 11 months ago
<3 favorite songg.
DestinyMarieJonas69 11 months ago
How was this guy so good his melodies and voice are so silky. I love his music the r n b singers now can't make a song past that year this still sounds good and is still relevant
Gamperhathnot 11 months ago
Oh my, this song is so saturated with soul! its absolutely beautiful. It means that much more that im sixteen :)
graystripe69 11 months ago
love it im goin cruzin
superfastmikey 1 year ago
sam is my inspiration i think of singing to my woman whenever i play his records he is truely my favorite singer!!
LarryBrown1958 1 year ago
Freaking LOVE his voice!
orangeclad 1 year ago
nice to hear the song the way it shoud be song, not the awful dr hook & the medicine show . thanks for this golden oldie.
rte66byhd 1 year ago
Is this the original?
zaaritha 1 year ago 11
@zaaritha
Yeah written by sam cooke and recorded in 1959
IAKIZabuza 1 year ago 23
@IAKIZabuza I always thought it was a DrHook original, I guess now I know :) great song regardless
1world1love2day 10 months ago
@1world1love2day I thought Dr Hook's was a great cover, regardless.
carrotjuse 9 months ago
@IAKIZabuza is this a true story?
XjugglingX 7 months ago