Change is gonna come is one of the greatest recordings of all time.

Thanks for sharing it!

K

Hey Jordan, so what Cooke song talks about Wittgenstein? "Pass over in silence"?

I'm a big music fan. All genre. I spend countless hours, researching, playing, listening to music. I run a damn audioblog.

And I've never found anything as brillant, moving, exhilarating & aching as "A Change Is Gonna Come" ...

Am i going nuts? Didn't you blog this song last year? Might have been a different blog, but this song made me run out and buy his greatest hits and I'm so grateful for it.

Hey Zaidie!
So did he (Jordan, not Sam Cooke) learn about a singer 'singing behind the band' from listening to Frank Sinatra, one of the greatest masters of the technique?
Be proud of this boy, he's got great taste!
Thanks, Jordan, for the Cooke cut.
J

May I also suggest this other "best of" :

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009N1ZV/qid=1115139958/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-9653227-6403853?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

There aren't that many songs that give me as many goose bumps as "Change". Probably one of top 10 or so songs of all time. It kills me every time I hear him sing how his brother "winds up knockin' me back down on my knees..." That's as bleak as you get, and to hear him sing right after how he thinks he's "able to carry on" *really* kills me (in a good way this time).

Thanks for spreading the word.

long time reader, first time commenter. firstly, thank you for introducing to me to a wealth of great music over the last 6 months or so i've been reading. i, too, can swear that you blogged this sometime late last year -- i think it was one of the first songs i got from this site, and it really is just absolutely gorgeous. it's become one of my favorite songs.

anyway, thanks.

Thanks for all the Sam Cooke love.

Mathew - I remember taking note that Cooke mentions Wittgenstein in a song, but now I can't find it and I'm beginning to worry that I can't tell the difference between 'Frankenstein' and 'Wittgenstein.' Either way, Cooke's not as thorough a Wittgenstein scholar as, say, Saul Kripke, but he brings more soul to the table, by far.

Beth (can I call you Beth?) and Matt - I first heard "Change" two weeks ago, and I started writing for STG about eight months ago, so I can assure you that I didn't post this song a year ago. However, it is possible that Sean posted it. In which case... Oops.

Did you, Sean?

I wish I had, but I, um, hadn't.

And doing a search for "Cooke" gives no other returns... A mystery!

Yep I remember you blogging it Jordan! A collective mystery... Maybe it pops up everytime there's an important election. Here in the UK I ~do~ hope a change's gonna come... I sure campaigned for it! (Blair out!)

It was posted over at Soul Sides a couple months ago as part of a "Revolutionary Mixtape". It was a great post, also including Nina Simone's "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free), an amazing song in its own right.

Sam Cooke sings, "don't know much about history, don't know much biology..." (yes he says trigonometry, too) on "Win Your Love". In "Another Saturday Night" he compares a girl he went out on a date with to Frankenstein.
Soulful? Yes. Scholarly? No.

In "Change Is Gonna Come", when he talks about his brother, he isn't talking about his relative. He's talking about his "brother" or "soul brother". In fact, I don't think it's him talking. I don't think he wrote the song.

I am Sean's old aunt and I have loved Sam Cooke for many years....he has a heavenly voice.... Thanks for sharing this track....

He clearly wrote it himself. Check out Guralnik's chapter on Sam Cooke in "Sweet Soul Music" : he wrote it right after he heard "Times They Are A Changing" by Dylan

I too blogged this song earlier this year, on new years eve ...

It wasn't here. Music.for-robots posted it last year. I remember Tuwa mentioning it on his (sadly) short-lived blog.

Great song still..

that's it, then. must've got it from music for robots. mystery solved.

Never heard it before! THANK YOU!