instrumental, A Change Is Gonna Come The song had more limited success on top 40 radio. written by Ben Sollee Sam Cooke, himself the son of a Holiness minister, was wary enough of losing his gospel audience that he released his first single, “Loveable” (1957), under a pseudonym. The song also reflected much of Cooke's own inner turmoil. In a sense, "A Change Is Gonna Come" is an answer to Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", as well as a song of hope for the Civil Rights Movement. Though the song was featured prominently in the 1992 film Malcolm X, it could not be included in the film's soundtrack. But if the singer was reluctant to revisit the song onstage, he was emboldened in his last months to speak his mind in other ways. “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which had first been issued on an album called Ain’t That Good News back in March, was released as a single less than two weeks after Cooke’s murder, as the B-side of the posthumous hit “Shake.” The version of the song released to radio stations omitted the verse that most clearly referred to racism: “I go to the movie and I go downtown/Somebody keep telling me, don’t hang around.” Despite its muted release, “A Change Is Gonna Come” has been handed down as Cooke’s best and most significant song. In this excerpt from Which Side Are You On?, James Sullivan describes Sam Cooke’s inspiration for “A Change is Gonna Come.”, Many of the black performers who came of age during the civil rights era were products of churchgoing homes. The first was the death of Cooke's eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who died of an accidental drowning in June of that year. "A Change Is Gonna Come" was a precursor to many later socially-conscious singles, including Marvin Gaye's lauded "What's Going On". However, his image and fears of losing his largely white fan base prevented him from doing so. Radical Son, Nooky & Sky'High, © 2003-2020 Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement. According to Guralnick's book, Klein persuaded Cooke to sing "A Change Is Gonna Come" on his February 7, 1964 appearance on The Tonight Show. Cooke sang the song; unfortunately, any impact it made was dimmed by The Beatles' history-making appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show just two days later. The song made its first appearance on Ain't That Good News, the last album to be released within Cooke's lifetime. Shortly after Christmas 1963, he summoned his friend and fellow musician J. W. Alexander to his home, where he ran through the somber ballad he called “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He recorded the song in late January 1964, at RCA Studios in Hollywood, with a full orchestral arrangement, and performed it a week later on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The song, very much a departure for Cooke, reflected two major incidents in his life.

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