closed on Sunday, October 23, 2022
Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$181.20
Starting bid: $1.00
Total bids: 4
Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$181.20
Starting bid: $1.00
Total bids: 4
Sam Cooke is often referred to as The King of Soul and he had a short but notable career as a singer and composer contributing to popular music. This early and historic handbill from 1961 promotes a show he performed at the Rockland Palace in Harlem.
Cooke had just signed with RCA Records a couple months prior and his new single "Cupid" had just reached the charts. "Chain Gang" also reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart just weeks before this performance. The circumstances around his death 3 years later are to this day still subject to speculation. This original handbill is in high quality condition.
--TITLE: Sam Cooke Rockland Palace
--GRADE: MINT 91
--PERFORMERS: Sam Cupid Cooke, Maxine Brown, Chuck Jackson, Jive Five, The Olympics, Bernard Byars, Ted Taylor, Savoy Big Blast Band
--VENUE: Rockland Palace
--CITY: New York
--DATE: 06/06/61
--DIMENSIONS: 11 in. x 8.5 in.
--PRINTING: FLYER; Flyer