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Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club

Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997

MOST OF SAM Cooke's pop hits were sugary, blanched affairs. This album was the real deal, giving us the church-reared R&B singer who liked to tear up the clubs along the Southern chitlin circuit.

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