AN UNBIASED VIEW OF GREATEST SONG EVER

On Oct 8th, 1963, even though on tour, Cooke and associates of his entourage ended up arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they made an effort to register at a white motel — an incident mirrored while in the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who drowned that June, re