DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL
I like Sam Cooke. I’ve even been known to argue that it was Cooke, not Otis Redding who was the greatest male soul balladeer of the ’60s. (And that Redding has the greater reputation chiefly on the basis of writing Aretha’s greatest — and first — hit “Respect,” and having been at Monterey.
December 1, 1974