Remembering Solomon Burke, born James Solomon McDonald on March 21, 1940, on March 21, 1940, in the upper floor of his grandmother Eleanor Moore's home, a row house in West Philadelphia, PA – he died on October 10, 2010. Burke shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues." He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mi