Listen free to Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come (A Change Is Gonna Come, This Little Light of Mine and more). 5 tracks (14:12). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Jun 24, 2019 A change has finally come — but it took 56 years. Legendary singer Sam Cooke received a belated public apology Sunday for the racially motivated mistreatment he suffered in 1963. Mar 27, 2013 This Sam Cooke Cover done by a young man named Dwayne Cooke has Got To be the Best I have seen & heard in a long time. Pure Soul & Emotion. Make Sure To SUBSCRIBE and SHARE this video. A Change Is Gonna Come is a 1964 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after his death in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement. Jan 22, 2016 'A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke Lyrics: I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, and just like the river I’ve been a-runnin’ ever since. It’s been a long, a long time comin. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come. Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF.) depending on your needs. 1963 Sam Cooke. The Complete Singles Collection (Hd Remastered Edition) Sam Cooke. The Man Who Invented Soul Sam Cooke. The Wonderful World Of Sam Cooke Sam Cooke.
Like everybody else in the early '60s, pop/gospel singer/songwriter Sam Cooke was affected by Bob Dylan's philosophical song about civil rights, 'Blowin' in the Wind,' which became a major hit in 1963. Cooke, according to his biographer, Daniel Wolff, marveled that a song on that subject could be written by a white man and that it could become a pop hit. He performed 'Blowin' in the Wind' and he wrote his own 'answer' song, the remarkable 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' The song melded gospel, blues, and protest elements into an emotional statement by a black man about where he had come from and where he and his people were going. Though openly skeptical of religion (one of the many amazing aspects of the lyrics), it makes an affirmation that answers Dylan's questions, while fully acknowledging the struggles Dylan pondered. For a man who had walked away from a gospel career and long veered between the early stirrings of soul music and harmless pop, 'A Change Is Gonna Come' was a revelation. Cooke recorded the song for his Ain't That Good News album, released in the late winter of 1964. On December 11, 1964, he was shot to death in circumstances that have never been adequately explained. Eleven days later, his record label, RCA Victor, released his single 'Shake' with 'A Change Is Gonna Come' (which by now seemed disturbingly prophetic) on the B-side. 'Shake' became a Top Ten hit, but 'A Change Is Gonna Come' also scored, making the Top 40 of the pop charts and the Top Ten of the R&B charts, and with that it began to spread as an anthem of the civil rights movement, earning covers from prominent R&B performers like Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. In 1970, the 5th Dimension scored a chart entry by combining it in a medley with the Rascals' 'People Gotta Be Free.' The song continued to earn covers through the 1970s and '80s, gaining acceptance as a classic. When, in the fall of 1999, VH1 staged a benefit Concert of the Century for its Save the Music program to buy musical instruments for schools, a show at which performers were asked to sing both their own songs and selections from among the best songs written in the 20th century, the Reverend Al Green, a spiritual son of Sam Cooke if there ever was one, chose 'A Change Is Gonna Come' and gave it a blistering performance.
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Year | Artist/Album | Label | Time | AllMusic Rating |
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1964 | ABKCO Records / Universal | 3:11 | ||
1965 | RCA | |||
1976 | RCA | |||
1986 | RCA | 3:13 | ||
2002 | ABKCO Records | 3:14 | ||
2003 | ABKCO Records | 3:13 | ||
2008 | 7:41 |
Like everybody else in the early '60s, pop/gospel singer/songwriter Sam Cooke was affected by Bob Dylan's philosophical song about civil rights, 'Blowin' in the Wind,' which became a major hit in 1963. Cooke, according to his biographer, Daniel Wolff, marveled that a song on that subject could be written by a white man and that it could become a pop hit. He performed 'Blowin' in the Wind' and he wrote his own 'answer' song, the remarkable 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' The song melded gospel, blues, and protest elements into an emotional statement by a black man about where he had come from and where he and his people were going. Though openly skeptical of religion (one of the many amazing aspects of the lyrics), it makes an affirmation that answers Dylan's questions, while fully acknowledging the struggles Dylan pondered. For a man who had walked away from a gospel career and long veered between the early stirrings of soul music and harmless pop, 'A Change Is Gonna Come' was a revelation. Cooke recorded the song for his Ain't That Good News album, released in the late winter of 1964. On December 11, 1964, he was shot to death in circumstances that have never been adequately explained. Eleven days later, his record label, RCA Victor, released his single 'Shake' with 'A Change Is Gonna Come' (which by now seemed disturbingly prophetic) on the B-side. 'Shake' became a Top Ten hit, but 'A Change Is Gonna Come' also scored, making the Top 40 of the pop charts and the Top Ten of the R&B charts, and with that it began to spread as an anthem of the civil rights movement, earning covers from prominent R&B performers like Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. In 1970, the 5th Dimension scored a chart entry by combining it in a medley with the Rascals' 'People Gotta Be Free.' The song continued to earn covers through the 1970s and '80s, gaining acceptance as a classic. When, in the fall of 1999, VH1 staged a benefit Concert of the Century for its Save the Music program to buy musical instruments for schools, a show at which performers were asked to sing both their own songs and selections from among the best songs written in the 20th century, the Reverend Al Green, a spiritual son of Sam Cooke if there ever was one, chose 'A Change Is Gonna Come' and gave it a blistering performance.
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Year | Artist/Album | Label | Time | AllMusic Rating |
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1964 | ABKCO Records / Universal | 3:11 | ||
1965 | RCA | |||
1976 | RCA | |||
1986 | RCA | 3:13 | ||
2002 | ABKCO Records | 3:14 | ||
2003 | ABKCO Records | 3:13 | ||
2008 | 7:41 |