Here are five Sam Cooke love songs that one needs to listen to and why they remain essential today. When discussing the quintessential Sam Cooke love song, You Send Me immediately comes to mind.

Herman's Hermits (Wonderful World) and Johnny Nash (Cupid) both had Top 10 hits with Sam Cooke songs later in the sixties, but it is one of the great pop tragedies that we never got to hear ...