115 in Rolling Stone magazine's ‘The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time’ in April 2010
‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ was released on December 22, 1964 by RCA Victor
His single ‘Twistin' the Night Away’ was released on January 9, 1962 by RCA Victor
In 1961, he established his own record label SAR Records, in collaboration with J
He also signed a profitable contract with RCA in 1960 and delivered the hit singles ‘Chain Gang’
Being a business enthusiast, he established a publishing company for his music, in 1959
Sam Cooke’s single ‘You Send Me’ was released on September 7, 1957 by Keen Records and received huge commercial success
His second wife was Barbara with whom he had three children named Linda (born 1953), Tracy (born 1960), and Vincent (1961 - 1963)
Sam Cooke facilitated a deal between the Soul Stirrers and Specialty Records, recording his first song ‘Jesus Gave Me Water’, in 1951
In 1950, he got an opportunity to join the very same group as their lead singer
A portion of East 36th Street in Chicago, where he sang as a teenager, has been renamed as the ‘Sam Cooke Way’ in his honour
The family migrated to Chicago in 1933 where he attended Doolittle Elementary and later Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Samuel Cook was born on January 22, 1931, in Clarksdale, Mississippi
On the morning of August 16, 1977, Elvis was found on the floor of his bathroom at Graceland
He met the then president Richard Nixon, on December 21, 1970
On December 3, 1968, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special Elvis
On May 1, 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulie at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas
On March 2,1960, he was discharged from the army with the rank of sergeant and he returned to the United States
On December 20,1957, Presley received a draft notice
In March 1956, he appeared for an audition for the movie ‘Love me Tender’ with the Paramount Movie Studios
The deal was struck on November 21, 1955 and Elvis’s Sun contract was sold for a price of $40,000
Backed with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley played publicly at the Bon Air Club on 17th July,1954
In June 1953, when he graduated from high school, Presley had already chosen music as his career
His first public performance was on October 3, 1945 at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show where he sang ‘Old Shep’
Younger brother of Mississippi Slim (a singer who had a radio show on Tupelo's WELO during the later 1940s) was a classmate of Presley and often took him to the station
Elvis Presley was born in the family of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love, on January 8, 1935, at Tupelo, Mississippi
