Sam Cooke: An Insatiable Libido and a Justifiable Homicide

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sam Cooke was a lot of things: soul superstar, civil rights champion, whip smart entrepreneur. But he was also a serial womanizer with an unbridled libido. On December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot to death by Bertha Lee Franklin, manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles. The killing was ruled a justifiable homicide due to Cooke’s unruly, drunken behavior, which involved him holding another woman captive in his hotel room and allegedly raping her earlier in the evening. With full appreciation of the #MeToo moment we are currently all living through as a culture, Disgraceland, with fresh eyes, looks into this crime and the successful effort by Sam Cooke’s family and powerful music industry colleagues to salvage his legacy and reputation by personally discrediting his victim. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, this goes Jake Brennan here. We have a new season of disgrace land coming out next week on February 14th.
0:06.7	This is also the five year anniversary of the show five years of disgrace land.
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1:01.1	New stories on Debbie Harry, YouTube, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and more.
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1:09.5	New old does not matter. It's all the same edge of your seat storytelling that you've come to expect from disgrace land and double Elvis, but now with visuals.
1:17.7	We've got daily 60 second shorts on the most crazy artist misadventures out there as well as weekly long form stories that dig deeper into music history's craziest mysteries.
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1:48.6	Disgrace land is a production of double Elvis.
1:52.5	The circumstances surrounding soul singer Sam Cook's death have long been shrouded in mystery.
2:13.5	The mafia did it. His jealous wife did it. The racist music industry industrial complex did it. Truth is, Sam Cook did it.
2:23.6	His own actions were the reason he was shot and killed.
2:27.1	By a woman, he had just physically attacked for no good reason, other than the fact that he wasn't accustomed to being told no.
2:37.1	Sam Cook was an infinitely skilled performer, producer, and businessman.
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