July 31 2015 Music History Fact Of The Week: Lou Rawls & Sam Cooke Were High School Classmates According to Bobby Womack’s autobiography, Lou Rawls and Same Cooke were high school classmates. Tweet Tags: Low Rawls, Music History, Music History Fact Of The Week, Sam Cooke Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. Posted July 31, 2015 by Elsie Law in category "History Post navigation The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week: Mariah Carey, Peter Gunz & Lord Tariq, “My All” (Remix) Fly Flicks: Sam Cooke, Times Square (1964)