"A Limbo Before Hell" ~A thought by Sinbad the Sailor Man

Poetry: Reflections of a Soul's Torment and Guilt

Reflections of a Soul before his, entering into the "Lake of Fire" and Everlasting Torment.

 

"A Limbo Before Hell"

I spied the immortal angel of death last night

I danced after him, after our fatal fight

The angel I saw was in disguise

He came to me as one of mercy, and one who was wise

As if in a dream, he came to me possessing the image of

Your elegant self, he came bearing gifts and kisses

With tears of remission, “ah but, him come too late”

For I was already stone cold, and turned immortal

And you were on your way, as always slow as the turtle

I awoke lost in the darkness, strung unto the greasy beam

It was set high and above a sea of moaning faces; oh how they gleamed

A dimly lit star was the only thing set above me

The beam on fire, tossing, and turning

Facing the faces that were moaning

I was strung upon it like that Jesus guy

Like he on his cross was, I

But, mine was a single board

Cut from deadwood a cord

That is continually singing down

Arms wide and feet dangling down

I was wearing a crown

My, own crown

Suspended over the oceans of sorrowing, souring faces

Souls dressed up and upwardly facing

I was set a fire and proclaiming no guilt as I spoke

But yet, I was not consumed, just pained and poked

The pain only weakened by the faces below

As each one proclaimed his history of woes

They revealed the unjust hurts, that they received

At the hands of their lovers, and this world of ours we all so believed

Now bathing in their and mine; our own proclamations, which only adds to our sting

We volley continuously for placement upon this beam

I have held this spot, upon this altar as long as I can remember

For now, it is all I can remember

As I am pushed to the floor, these oceans roar

As they rock and they roll; they all pull me under

For now my lover, she soars onto the beam

And then when there, I alone return unto the ocean’s floor demeaned

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Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964),^[1] professionally known as Sam Cooke, was an American recording artist, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur generally considered among the greatest of all time.^[3]

Influential as both a singer and composer,^[4] he is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music.

His pioneering contributions to soul music contributed to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Billy Preston and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.^[5][6][7]

AllMusic biographer Bruce Eder wrote that Cooke was "the inventor of soul music", and possessed "an incredible natural singing voice and a smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed."^[8]

Cooke had 30 U.S. top 40 hits between 1957 and 1964, plus three more posthumously.

Major hits like "You Send Me", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cupid", "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World", and "Twistin' the Night Away" are some of his most popular songs.

Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career.

He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. He also took an active part in the Civil Rights Movement.^[9]


On December 11, 1964, at the age of 33, Cooke was fatally shot by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California.

After an inquest, the courts ruled Cooke's death to be a justifiable homicide. Since that time, the circumstances of his death have been called into question by Cooke's family and his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
Background information
Birth name	Samuel Cook[1]
Also known as	Dale Cook
Born	January 22, 1931 Clarksdale, Mississippi, U.S.
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	December 11, 1964 (aged 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Genres	Soul, gospel, rhythm and blues
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, entrepreneur
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1951[2]–1964
Labels	Specialty, Keen, RCA
Associated acts	The Singing Children, Otis Redding, The Highway Q.C.'s, The Soul Stirrers, J. W. Alexander, Lou Rawls, Bobby Womack

Early life and career

Main article: The Soul Stirrers

Cooke was born "Cook" in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He later added an "e" onto the end of his name, though the reason for this is disputed.^[10] He was one of eight children of the Rev. Charles Cook, a Baptist minister, and his wife, Annie Mae.

He had a brother, L.C., who some years later would become a member of the doo-wop band Johnny Keyes and the Magnificents.

The family moved to Chicago in 1933. Cooke attended Doolittle Elementary and Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Chicago, the same school that Nat "King" Cole had attended a few years earlier.^[10]

Sam Cooke began his career with his siblings in a group called The Singing Children when he was 9.

He first became known as lead singer with the Highway QC's as a teenager joining at the age of 14. During this time, Cooke befriended fellow gospel singer and neighbor Lou Rawls, who sang in a rival gospel group.

In 1950, Cooke replaced gospel tenor Reubert H. Harris as lead singer of the gospel group The Soul Stirrers, founded by Harris.

Under Cooke's leadership, the group signed with Specialty Records, where their first recording was for the song "Jesus Gave Me Water" in 1951.

They also recorded other gospel tracks, such as "Peace in the Valley", "How Far Am I From Canaan?", "Jesus Paid the Debt" and "One More River", among many other gospel songs, some of which he wrote.^[2]

Cooke was often credited for bringing gospel music to the attention of a younger crowd of listeners, mainly girls who would rush to the stage when the Soul Stirrers hit the stage just to get a glimpse of Cooke.^[11]

Crossover pop success

Cooke in Billboard magazine

His first pop/soul single was "Lovable" (1956), which was a remake of the gospel song "Wonderful" and was released under the alias "Dale Cook"^[12] in order not to alienate his gospel fan base; there was a considerable stigma against gospel singers performing secular music.

However, it fooled no one^[13]—Cooke's unique and distinctive vocals were easily recognized.

Art Rupe, head of Specialty Records, the label of the Soul Stirrers, gave his blessing for Cooke to record secular music under his real name, but he was unhappy about the type of music Cooke and producer Bumps Blackwell were making.

Rupe expected Cooke's secular music to be similar to that of another Specialty Records artist, Little Richard. When Rupe walked in on a recording session and heard Cooke covering Gershwin, he was quite upset.

After an argument between Rupe and Blackwell, Cooke and Blackwell left the label.

In 1957, Cooke appeared on ABC's The Guy Mitchell Show. That same year, he signed with Keen Records.

His first release, "You Send Me",^{[note 1][12][14]} spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. The song also had mainstream success, spending three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart.^[15]

In 1961, Cooke started his own record label, SAR Records, with J.W. Alexander and his manager, Roy Crain.^[16]

The label soon included The Simms Twins, The Valentinos (who was Bobby Womack and his brothers), Bobby Womack and Johnnie Taylor.

Cooke then created a publishing imprint and management firm before leaving Keen to sign with RCA Victor. One of his first RCA singles was the hit "Chain Gang".

It reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart and was followed by more hits, including "Sad Mood", "Cupid", "Bring it on Home to Me" (with Lou Rawls on backing vocals), "Another Saturday Night" and "Twistin' the Night Away".^{[citation needed]}

Like most R&B artists of his time, Cooke focused on singles; in all, he had 29 top 40 hits on the pop charts, and more on the R&B charts.

He was a prolific songwriter and wrote most of the songs he recorded.

He also had a hand in overseeing some of the song arrangements.

In spite of releasing mostly singles, he released a well-received blues-inflected LP in 1963, Night Beat, and his most critically acclaimed studio album, Ain't That Good News, which featured five singles, in 1964.^{[citation needed]}

Marriages

Cooke was married twice.^[17]
Cooke's first marriage was to singer-dancer Dolores Mohawk, who was killed in an auto accident in Fresno, California in 1959. Although he and Mohawk were divorced, Cooke paid his ex-wife's funeral expenses.^[17]
Cooke and his second wife, Barbara, had three children: Linda (b 1953); Tracy (b 1960); and Vincent (1961 - 1963).^[17]

Death

Cooke died at the age of 33 on December 11, 1964, at the Hacienda Motel at 9137 South Figueroa Street, in Los Angeles, California.

 Answering separate reports of a shooting and of a kidnapping at the motel, police found Cooke's body, clad only in a sports jacket and shoes but no shirt, pants or underwear.

He had sustained a gunshot wound to the chest, which was later determined to have pierced his heart.^[18]

The motel's manager, Bertha Franklin, said she had shot Cooke in self-defense after he broke into her office residence and attacked her. Her account was immediately questioned and disputed by friends and acquaintances.^[19]

The official police record states that Franklin fatally shot Cooke, who had checked in earlier that evening.^[20]

Franklin claimed that Cooke had broken into the manager's office-apartment in a rage, wearing nothing but a shoe and a sports coat, demanding to know the whereabouts of a woman who had accompanied him to the hotel.

Franklin said the woman was not in the office and that she told Cooke this, but the enraged Cooke did not believe her and violently grabbed her, demanding again to know the woman's whereabouts.

According to Franklin, she grappled with Cooke, the two of them fell to the floor, and she then got up and ran to retrieve her gun. She said she then fired at Cooke in self-defense because she feared for her life.

Cooke was struck once in the torso and, according to Franklin, he exclaimed, "Lady, you shot me", before mounting a last charge at her. She said she beat him over his head with a broomstick before he finally fell, mortally wounded by the gunshot.

The motel's owner, Evelyn Carr,^{[note 2]} claimed that she had been on the telephone with Franklin at the time of the incident.^[10]

Carr claimed to have overheard Cooke's intrusion and the ensuing conflict and gunshot.

Carr called the police to request that officers go to the motel, telling them she believed a shooting had occurred.

A coroner's inquest was convened to investigate the incident. The woman who had accompanied Cooke to the motel was identified as Elisa Boyer, who had also called the police that night shortly before Carr had.

Boyer had called the police from a telephone booth near the motel, telling them she had just escaped being kidnapped.

Boyer told the police that she had first met Cooke earlier that night and had spent the evening in his company. She claimed that after they left a local nightclub together, she had repeatedly requested that he take her home, but he instead took her against her will to the Hacienda Motel.

She claimed that once in one of the motel's rooms, Cooke physically forced her onto the bed, and that she was certain he was going to rape her.

According to Boyer, when Cooke stepped into the bathroom for a moment, she quickly grabbed her clothes and ran from the room. She claimed that in her haste, she had also scooped up most of Cooke's clothing by mistake.

She said she ran first to the manager's office and knocked on the door seeking help.

However, she said that the manager took too long in responding, so, fearing Cooke would soon be coming after her, she fled from the motel before the manager ever opened the door.

She said she then put her clothing back on, hid Cooke's clothing, went to a telephone booth, and called police.

Boyer's story is the only account of what happened between her and Cooke that night; however, her story has long been called into question.

Inconsistencies between her version of events and details reported by other witnesses, as well as circumstantial evidence,^{[note 3][21][22]} suggest that Boyer may have gone willingly to the motel with Cooke, then slipped out of the room with Cooke's clothing in order to rob him, rather than to escape an attempted rape.^[10][20]

However, questions about Boyer's role were beyond the scope of the inquest, the purpose of which was only to establish the circumstances of Franklin's role in the shooting.^[10]

Boyer's leaving the motel room with almost all of Cooke's clothing, and the fact that tests showed Cooke was inebriated at the time, provided a plausible explanation to the inquest jurors for Cooke's bizarre behavior and state of dress.

In addition, because Carr's testimony corroborated Franklin's version of events, and because both Boyer and Franklin later passed lie detector tests,^[10][23][24] the coroner's jury ultimately accepted Franklin's explanation and returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.^[13]

With that verdict, authorities officially closed the case on Cooke's death.^[10]

Some of Cooke's family and supporters, however, have rejected Boyer's version of events, as well as those given by Franklin and Carr.

They believe there was a conspiracy to murder Cooke, and that the murder took place in some manner entirely different from the three official accounts.^{[25][26][27][10][28][29][10][30]}

Singer Etta James viewed Cooke's body before his funeral, and questioned the accuracy of the official version of events.

She wrote that the injuries she observed were well beyond the official account of Cooke having fought Franklin alone.

James wrote that Cooke was so badly beaten that his head was nearly separated from his shoulders, his hands were broken and crushed, and his nose mangled.^[31]

No concrete evidence supporting a criminal conspiracy has been presented to date.^[28][29]

Aftermath

Grave of Sam Cooke, in the Garden of Honor, Forest Lawn Glendale

The first funeral service for Cooke was held in Chicago at A.R Leak Funeral Home, where thousands of fans had lined up for more than four city blocks to view his body.^[17]

Afterward, his body was flown back to Los Angeles for a second service at the Mount Sinai Baptist Church, which included a much-heralded performance of "Angels Keep Watching Over Me" by Ray Charles.

Cooke was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.^[17]

Two singles and an album were released in the month after his death.

One of the singles, "Shake", reached the top ten of both the pop and R&B charts.

"A Change is Gonna Come", considered a classic of Civil Rights Era Protest Music^[32] was a top 40 pop hit, and top ten R&B hit.

The album, also titled Shake, reached the number one spot for R&B albums. After Cooke's death, his widow, Barbara, married Bobby Womack.

Cooke's daughter, Linda, later married Womack's brother, Cecil.^[16]

Bertha Franklin said she received numerous death threats after shooting Cooke.

She left her position at the Hacienda Motel and did not publicly disclose where she had moved.^[33]

After being cleared by the coroner's jury, she sued Cooke's estate, citing physical injuries and mental anguish suffered as a result of Cooke's attack.

Her lawsuit sought US$200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.^[33]

 Barbara Womack countersued Franklin on behalf of the estate, seeking $7,000 in damages to cover Cooke's funeral expenses.

Elisa Boyer provided testimony in support of Franklin in the case.

In 1967, a jury ruled in favor of Franklin on both counts, awarding her $30,000 in damages.^[34]

Posthumous honors

• In 1986, Cooke was inducted as a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[35]
• In 1987, Cooke was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[36]
• In 1999, Cooke was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 16th on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".^[37][38]
• In 2008, Cooke was named the fourth "Greatest Singer of All Time" by Rolling Stone.^[39]
• In June 2011, the city of Chicago renamed a portion of East 36th Street near Cottage Grove Avenue as the honorary "Sam Cooke Way" to remember the singer near a corner where he hung out and sang as a teenager.^[40]
• In 2013 Cooke was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio at Cleveland State Univ. The founder of the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Museum LaMont Robinson said he was the greatest singer ever to sing. The Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Museum will be built in Cooke's hometown of Clarksdale, MS.

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"Sinbad's Misery"~ A thought by Sinbad the Sailor Man

Poetry: Of a Lost Love One

"Sinbad's Misery"

 

You are always on my mind
I can not break these ties, that bind

I can not keep you, from slipping in
You are my lover, my… my friend

Although it is a relief for me
Temporarily, relieved; freed

From time to time I keep time, yet still I am
Letting  you, silently slip back in

It seems, only and too often  I’ved
Sailed these Forbidden Seas

Encompassed by the pain, with
The jealousy, and plain old disdain

With never a hint of empathy
You showed me, no sympathy

The torment will not relent
Or was it too, heaven sent?

Your smiles traverse me so
Into my simple mind and my soul

Exploding, each and every memory
Every dream, I have ever dreamt of you

No comfort can I find, for still
I am a bit, dazed and confused

Still; not over you
Will I, that I’d never be, over you?

I can’t let you go
When will this tragedy play out?

Have you forgiven me?
Do you still remember me?

When did you stop loving me, with all of your heart?
Was it something that I done or that we could have fixed?

Why wouldn’t your kiss, be goodbye?
Was this one; at last too, that little lie?

It could have given me; a place, to start
Mending my broken soul and mine  heart

I forgiven you my dear
I’m forever wishing you were here

This is the end of me, my mate
Looks like love has sealed It my fate

Oh how I wished; you would have
Plunged that steel dagger, into me

You will see, I will love you
Forever and a day

A thought by Sinbad the Sailor Man

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