S22E10: Sam Cooke, Barbara Campbell Cooke, and Bobby Womack

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

By the time of his death at just 33, singer Sam Cooke had become a bona fide superstar, as well as being an effective activist in the movement for Black equality in America. He had also been married twice, and it's in the story of his second wife, Barbara Campbell Cooke, where things get very complicated, very fast. Because Barbara did not attend Sam Cooke's funeral alone. She was escorted by his friend, protege, and guitar player Bobby Womack, who drove her there in Sam's car, dressed in Sam's best clothes. And the story only gets worse from there.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces.
0:03.6	Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:07.7	My name is Stacey.
0:08.8	Hey friends, Alicia here.
0:10.5	Thank you for joining us for today's tale of Marital Misadventure.
0:15.8	Oh my.
0:16.4	This week I got a trashy love triangle.
0:18.7	It gets messy.
0:19.7	It gets really messy.
0:20.7	We have a lot in this one,
0:23.8	a lot of bad decisions. I'm going to cover as much as I can within the Sam Cook and Barbara
0:31.1	Cook and Bobby Womack nasty, nasty triangle with a capital N nasty. Y'all all need to be grown for this story just
0:41.4	want a heads up everybody now before we begin we do have a magic mirror we want to give some huge
0:47.3	thanks and praise to a number of folks first up our newest supporters over at patreon.com slash
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0:58.5	Daisy, Marissa M, Lady M, Caroline C.
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1:07.6	Holy cats, we appreciate your support over on that community. Welcome, welcome. Big love to our new and sustaining supporters. I do have a late, happy birthday wish for our gal Laura. And I want to go ahead and mention a little dedication for this one out to Bletta and Kimberly, this trashy triangle, I know y'all have been waiting for a very long time.
1:31.5	I hope everybody likes it.
1:33.5	There are a lot of bad choices in this story.
1:37.6	It is full of tragedy and twists and dysfunction, but oh my, is it trashy.
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