NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT GREATEST SONG EVER

On Oct 8th, 1963, though on tour, Cooke and users of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace once they made an effort to sign up in a white motel — an incident mirrored within the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-outdated son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in th