![]() ![]() He was in a coma for five days and it took him a full year to recover. His injuries were so serious he was declared dead before he reached the hospital. Teaming up again with Sam Cooke, Rawls was touring the South with a group named the Travelers when he was in a traffic accident that almost killed him. After service as an Army paratrooper, Rawls reentered civilian life and continued working with a number of singing groups, some gospel, some rhythm and blues. ![]() They sang together as the Teenaged Kings of Harmony, a gospel group, in the early 1950s. ![]() A Chicago native who would celebrate his hometown in song for decades, Rawls was a high school classmate of gospel and soul singer Sam Cooke. Louis Allen Rawls was born on December 1st, 1935. That immediately identifiable velvet baritone could belong to no one else but Lou Rawls. LOU RAWLS (Singer Philanthropist): (Singing) You'll never find the rhythm, the rhyme, all the magic we shared, just a.ĬHADWICK: Lou Rawls with "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine." Here's NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates with an appreciation. (Soundbite of "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine") Singer and philanthropist Lou Rawls has died in Los Angeles. ![]() In a week of hard news, here is one more item. ![]()
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