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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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you send me became an astonishing phenomenon almost instantaneously. Sam was selling more records a day than he had in a year as a sole stir. The single eventually racked up a reported 1.7 million copies amid competition like Elvis's Jailhouse Rock and the Everly Brothers Wake Up, Little Susie. It went to number one and stayed on the charts for more than half a year. I still don't know what happened, Sam would tell a reporter. Here I am one night singing church songs and thinking Maybe I'll have to get me a side job, waiting table or something to get enough bread to make ends meet. Then all of a sudden, Sam Cooke is rich. Well, that is having more money there is in the world to spend. I've heard the stories of Cinderella singers like Elvis Presley, but I never expected to be in one of those big payoffs myself.