STORY BEHIND THE SONG

Anything you can tell me about Cupid, by Sam Cooke? – A

Listen carefully on headphones and you’ll hear backing vocalists imitating the swish of an arrow in flight, adding a novelty flourish to one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 greatest songs of all time. Producers originally earmarked Cupid for an up-and-coming performer they’d spotted on a TV show with Perry Como but once they’d actually heard her sing, Cooke decided to keep the song for himself. No love lost there!