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13 years ago
Tuesday 20 January 2009
74. Sam Cooke, A Change Is Gonna Come (1964)
I wanted to avoid the obligatory fromage-filled Obama post, but I just heard this on Radio 2, and I nearly fell over. Less with the emotion of the day – although I'd sure as anything like to be in Washington DC now and not in a rather cold Hackney – but by Sam Cooke's voice. God damn it, Jesus Christ, and a thousand hallelujahs: Sam Cooke is the GREATEST SINGER OF ALL TIME, you hear, and if you argue with me, then you're just WRONG.
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Big influence on Rod Stewart if I remember - Sam Cooke that is not Barack Obama
I played this on the stereo in our primary school assembly today. I welled up in the first few bars - "I was boooorn by the river..."
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