Sam Cooke sings 'A Change Is Gonna Come' from his 1965 RCA Victor compilation album 'The Best Of Sam Cooke, Volume 2'. This song inspired to be written by Cooke in 1963 from personal events in his own life is generally considered his best composition. It is one of those songs that is truly significant and ranks #12 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list.
'A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke Lyrics: I was born by the. Sam Cooke wrote this song after. Jun 10, 2014 SAM COOKE PLAYLIST. SAM COOKE PLAYLIST. Skip navigation. Trending History Get YouTube Premium Get YouTube TV Best of YouTube Music Sports. Sam Cooke - the Song from the Moulin Rouge (1960).
In 2007 it was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress, with the National Recording Registry deeming the song 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.' The song first appeared as the B-side of the 1964 single 'Shake' and then on the 1964 album 'Ain't That Good News'.
Cooke gave only one live performance of the song (on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show) and that was not saved. Record company disputes kept the song off recordings for almost four decades. The following is adapted from the Wikipedia entry on the song which uses material from the 2005 Peter Guralnick book 'The Triumph of Sam Cooke': Cooke incorporated his experiences into the song such as encounters in Memphis, Shreveport and Birmingham, to reflect the lives and struggles of all African-Americans of the time. The lines 'I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky' could refer to Cooke's doubt for absolute true justice on earth. The final verse, in which Cooke pleads for his 'brother' to help him, is a metaphor for what Alexander described as 'the establishment'. The verse continues, 'But he winds up knocking me / back down on my knees'.
The song lyrics are listed below.
Had been killed the previous month with a current single, 'Shake,' ready for release. A brilliant up-tempo song with dazzling vocal acrobatics and a great beat, it was issued less than two weeks after 's death and soared into the Top Ten, but there was no accompanying LP, and had not left behind enough unissued studio material to create one.
Instead, starting within days of 's death in order to get this album out for January of 1965, RCA reached back as far as six years, to 's sides for Specialty records and the Keen label ('Win Your Love for Me,' 'Comes Love'), up through songs from early 1964's album and the handful of numbers he'd finished late in the year. They threw on the shortened single version of 'A Change Is Gonna Come,' as edited for the B-side of 'Shake,' to create the first in an ever-weaker series of pastiche albums in 's catalog.
This actually isn't a bad selection of material, and some of what's here was among his latest sides, thus representing some facet of where his music was heading during his last year alive, in what amounted to an unfinished career in an unfinished life, in an unsettled time. It's just not a terribly relevant album in terms of anything it says about 's music, apart from its diversity over time. Most of the material on this album has reappeared in more recent years on either box or the CD.
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