Jan. 12, 1963

Via NPR.org:


A Night Out With Sam Cooke: 'Harlem Square' Turns 50




Fifty years ago [today], Sam Cooke stepped onstage at a club in Miami. He'd come a long way to get there.


Cooke began singing in a church choir on the South Side of Chicago, and went on to join the Soul Stirrers, one of the country's biggest gospel groups. When he struck out on his own, he hit it big with a mainstream