after sam heard (and performed) dylan's blowin' in the wind, he thought "hmmm, i need to write me one of those".....and he subsequently penned the iconic "a change is gonna come".
what a brilliant artist on so many levels.....and with apologies to ray charles, marivn gaye, otis redding and david ruffin, sam's is the soulful voice of all time in my opinion.
In my opinion, the Occupy Wall Street movement won't be remember 10 years from now unless they get some attractive ideological-songs-of-the-movement like this.
Not a big "folk music" fan, but good lord...Sam was f'ng amazing! This is the RIGHT sound for this song! And, get a load of Sam staying on beat even with the typical audience idiots who clap in 4/4 time vs. on the swing beat...and that was before good P.A. systems with quality audio monitor systems, ya know! He was a national treasure!
this should help us getting over race - issues. life and music are universal, maybe the black people did have more problems to sing about back then. maybe today too. some people always have. because it is so. one world. love and peace. lets stay together. :) positive
Is it me or does anyone else recognize that Sam doesn't wear a process. (Slick hair prepared with a lye process) (burned the heck out of yur head). All entertainers during this era, straightened their hair. Very few African American males wore their hair natural. Social consciousness??
@Sizzle1247 I think on one of his documentaries, it is said that he had his hair in that style when he was doing the gospel circuit, but after becoming confident and proud of his culture, began to wear it natural.
@mahcuz you had to live in that era to understand how hard it was to be a black entertainer. had to come in the back door, couldn't use the washroom, couldn't eat in the dining rooms. they did what they had to in order to ply their craft. i am white but i had to hide to listen rhythm and blues stations because my church said that this is the devil's music. we have all grown a great deal but we still have a long way to go.
@mahcuz Did he live long enough to change his hairstyle? I love Sam Cooke and he would be handsome bald, I wish he had lived a long life. We lost so much!
@Sizzle1247 Yes. Sam was a very conscious Black man. Well versed in Black history. He had a fairly large library of books on Black history. He was also close to Ali and Malcolm X. Sam was ahead of his time.
I wish I was one of those kids Sam walked up to in the audience because you know that somewhere in this world those people are still alive with the best story ever.
I can feel his frustration when he sings these lyrics like I can feel gospel singer's faith. It is strung out in every verse, note, and phrase. I heart the same yearning when I hear Stevie Wonder sing the song.
When I see the clips of either singing and watch people dancing, I wonder if they hear the words too. The lyrics make a person want to act and change whatever underlying thing that creates this level of hurt.
@jovonwilliams77 it is completely unnecessary to throw race at this matter, you are not helping at all. Although racism was strong in the 60's against black people Bob Dylan wasn't a racist he made a song about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter which was about Rubin (a black boxer) being falsely imprisoned over a crime he didn't commit. Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan are both AMAZING artists they can share the damn song!!
I had to replay Sam Cooke's records thousands of times on the record player for my mother asa child. "Play it again," is thus etched in my memory and it is linked to Sam Cooke's voice. Thank you for sharing this video. I'd never seen this before now.
Vocal chords on steroids = Sam Cooke....and if you've listened to his gospel, you know that his pop stuff is him basically trying to tone DOWN his voice.
@Aaronc7775 How amazing! Be sure and tell your children. His "A Change is Gonna Come' was anthem for Civil Rights Movement. He was a very big name in music during the 60's. You should be very proud. When he was alive there were signs throughout the entire South saying "Negros Not Allowed" in almost every outhouse, hotel, store and restaurant. Wish he had lived till 2008 to see that a change had come. Obama was elected President..
You say Hannah Montana-i fucking punch you in the face
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@kbuechner What are you talking about Dylan..The truth is this is Sams song..Research about Sams life...A black man couldnt do what he wanted to in the 60s,you know that...Bio of Sam tells the truth...Bob Dylan is a LIE,and a damn theif...dONT REPLY UNTIL YOU KNOW THE TRUTH READ SOME,AND DONT GO OFF WHAT YOU HEARD thank you very much.I know you're White..and the truth makes you people mad ...
@jovonwilliams77 The song was written by Bob Dylan in 1963 you stupid prick and i'm mixed race! and to disregard Bob Dylan just shows how brain dead you are when it comes to music!!!....any chance you are white?
@grasthube No one can prove wrong your opinion. It's retarded, sure, seeing as Dylan was inarguably the most inspirational popular folk/rock singer songwriter of the early to mid 60s. That's inarguable man.
Among the notable songs written by by Sam Cooke: Ain't That Good News; Another Saturday Night; Bring It On Home To Me; Chain Gang; A Change Is Gonna Come; Cupid; Having A Party: Mean Old World; Only Sixteen; Sad Mood; Talkin' Trash; Twisting The Night Away; You Send Me.
By no means an all-inclusive list of Sam's song writing credits but pretty damn impressive.
Yeah... whoever said Sam didn't write songs is a jackass. Sam wrote all of his best material - Change is Gonna Come; You Send Me; Bring it on Home to Me - which was somebody else's melody he wrote new words for. Chain Gang...
And sides - writing material and being great artist have nothing to do with eachother. Elvis and Sinatra - two of most post powerful & brilliant entertainers of all time didn't write their own songs. Only Jackasses think you have to write your own songs to be great.
I have undone my fears. Yet this vain vessel is nerved with pain. surly if these invisible tears were rain there would be showers everyday. if i say I think of death as my truest friend, would you all abandon me then? if i say when my soul is recycled I truly want to be a tree, rooted, deftly immune to the insane lies and selfish ideals of human-unkind, I wonder if you will dismissively ignore me then? ms. v
@zneelrahc sooooo your saying, you want to kill yourself because your crying doesn't affect me, and you want me to visit your grave afterward, cause your coming back as a tree.....(I do have to pee..)
@berriesandvine if i say think this particular way? would you abandon me for drawing such conclusions? if i felt a certain way? i wonder if my feeling that way would be dismissed?
btw I am just trying to understand the cycle of life and my existence as merely an atom of the whole pie, in short. well i've some answers.
Interesting question; women of the so-called profession take dangerous risks as do the men they patronize. Sam, as a husband/father;etc, should NEVER have put himself in that position and at such a seedy location. Word has it that he was not the most rational drinker-mood changes and all. So sad that at a time in his life when his music grew so profound, he would lose his life in such a horrible manner. But he was an influence. I 've always felt that Marvin Gaye became what Sam would have been.
Truly amazing, Sam was totally blown away that a white guy (Bob Dylan) actually wrote a song that was so prevalent in it's day. And that is why he sang..
@TrueLight55 I'm not sure but i think 63 ou 64. I know that this song inspired Sam for his "A change is gonna come", I know he wrote and recorded it shortly before he got killed in december 1964. And I know he sang "Blowin' in the wind" (on tv and at his concerts, including the "Copacabana" one in 1964) roughly from the moment when he discovered it (when it came out) in 1963.
very nearly ruined by the off-beat clapping....seems like the audience can't decide which beat they want to clap to....otherwise, a truly stunning vocal performance....i don't think a studio version of this is available
very nearly ruined by the off-beat clapping....seems like the audience can't decide which beat they want to clap to....otherwise, a truly stunning vocal performance....i don;t think a studio version of this is available
I just finished the chapter on Sam Cooke in Peter Guralnick's "Sweet Soul Music." I wasn't aware that Sam was inspired by Dylan to write "A Change Is Gonna Come." If this performance is Sam's tribute to Bob, I can't think of a better one. No one could control his voice like the great Sam Cooke. I love how he takes a great song that Dylan delivers in a somewhat solemn way and makes it a joyous, hopeful cry. Miss the man's music.
I'm not gonna get into the who's the greatest debate, but you haven't heard Sam until you've heard his live albums and his early stuff with the Soul Stirrers. I'm a DJ so I have access to EVERYTHING, and I find myself listening to Sam more than anyone else. Catchy tunes and he wrote most of them himself.
Who viewed the new era of music or shift from Love song ballads to what they termed militant & revolutionary (blowing In the wind, Change is gonna come etc.
It was Hoovers orders...assassination of key celebrities that unfortunately ended Sam Cookes life.
This is probably my favorite version because of the soul that Sam gives the song, but considering what the song is about, the dancing is pretty annoying. The song is about people being blind to the suffering of others, and people are bopping to it like it's some zany 60's dance sensation.
@windowpain1 That's the same thing I was thinking, the dancing kind of contradicts the somber tone of the song. But I guess it's really no different from today or any other era, if a song with a conscious message also happens to have a good beat, most ppl are only concerned about dancing to it while a few will take in the message.
@windowpain1 They were "bopping to it" because Sam wanted them to bop to it. Come on. That is what he turned the song into. I wouldn't be surprised if he hand-selected each of the on-stage dancers.
@TheFoxyDavid Oh, I'm sure those teenagers were "planted" there by the "Shindig!" producers; they were just waiting for their "cue". That was the style of that show, frenetic choreography and dramatic staging. I'm sure some of those youngsters didn't even know who Sam was! But Sam put such a nice gospel twinge to this great folk song. And I dug Sam's shirt, too. I'd like to find one of those bad boys...
I don't mean to bring negativity but, people have been telling me that Sam Cooke was a better singer than Marvin Gaye. So I've been looking up a lot of Sam Cooke, and while I already knew he was great, I just don't see it. I don't think he can hold a candle to Marvin.
@KrfNYC2 I'm at a disadvantage, because anything I say about Sam is weighted and bias....But even Sam's Gospel is the best....He birthed a vocal style that made legions.Marvin, Al, Johnny Taylor,James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Isleys, Womacks, Lead singers for The Ovations, Alston with the Manhattans, Spinners, Highway QC's, Soul Stirrers.....Even me...Type in larry hilton cooke 4...LOL....He opened doors and owned before Motown...But really..Check out his gospel....Cooke
@KrfNYC2 I have to agree with larrycancooke2. Sam's gospel music is where he really shines. If I'd only heard his secular hits, I'd think Marvin was better, too. Marvin's a close third, though, in my opinion--right behind Ray Charles.
@windowpain1 Ray had a really unique and compelling voice. But I still take Marvin in a landslide. I guess I still need to look up Sam's gospel work. But I have a hard time imagining that I'll be convinced.
@KrfNYC2 Yeah. Sam's gospel work is the stuff of legend. He was a much better gospel singer than he was a secular singer. Which is saying a lot, because most consider him the greatest soul singer of all time!
@KrfNYC2 Marvin was good. But, vocally, he couldn't hold a candle to a lot of people. Sam Cooke, David Ruffin, Jackie Wilson and other could blow him away, vocally. Marvin could never do what Sam Cooke did on "Live at the Harlem Square Club". Marvin didn't have the confidence in his own voice to let loose like Sam did.
@JayGatz01 I disagree. I doubt that either one of will be able to convince the other to adopt our opinion. But everytime someone says that Cooke or Stevie or Hathaway etc. is better than Marvin I just ask them to acknowledge two things. Those are:
1.That Marvin could hit a far wider range of notes (And I'm talking astronomical distnce)
2. That Marvin was a far more gifted overall musicina (assuming that what we hear is truely he work of the artist who it's widley creited to)
@KrfNYC2 Marvin learned from Sam, Marvin just took it to another level. That's all. I wish both of them could've sang together. I know this for a fact. Marvin was offered a role to play Sam Cooke, but Marvin said that he couldn't play a person that got shot. (Marvin was still hurt by Sam Cooke's being shot). And it's so strange that Marvin also got shot. Damn the good always go first.
@KingMellow11 I don't know for sure how much, or if, Sam influenced Marvin. It's definitely a strong possibility though. Either way, all I'm saying is that Marvin's best vocal work sounds better than Sam's best vocal work...to me. And musically...Marvin's albums blow Sam's out of the water...no contest. I hear there's a movie coming out about Marvin. I'd love to see that. I wonder who would play him.
@KrfNYC2 Remember now. Sam and Marvin are from different eras. There's no telling what Sam would do if he was still here .I can't say it would be a no contest. Believe me , I'm not taking not one thing from Marvin. In his time , Marvin was and I must say still is the man. But Sam is also the man. Sam was 50's and early 60s. His life got cut short. Marvin is mid 60s , 70s, and early 80s. In my book, Marvin got cut short as well. I feel what you're saying though. They both were legends.
Cover By Bob Dylon
LeeRoyG1947 3 days ago
There are racial tensions in the audience: Half of them are clapping on 1 and 3, the other half on 2 and 4.
Rasbiff 1 week ago
How many roads, how many times, how many seas.....that answer is blowin in the wind
LelandnSonya4eva 2 weeks ago
I wonder where all those people dancing at the end are today... To be so lucky to have experienced this. Jealous.
milkcowmani 3 weeks ago 3
Yes, this style is Caribbean and folk influences, popular at the time.
kerrykliveinreality7 3 weeks ago
True playa
bassboi2001 3 weeks ago
Just an amazing voice. Very sad the day you died.
circa1838 1 month ago
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indure08 1 month ago
after sam heard (and performed) dylan's blowin' in the wind, he thought "hmmm, i need to write me one of those".....and he subsequently penned the iconic "a change is gonna come".
what a brilliant artist on so many levels.....and with apologies to ray charles, marivn gaye, otis redding and david ruffin, sam's is the soulful voice of all time in my opinion.
jaygatsby1 1 month ago
Baddest R&B Singer off all time
marcell714 1 month ago 2
@marcell714 obvious troll is obvious
sickcellmate 3 weeks ago
Best thing in the entire Internet. Voting is over. Awards have been sent. Thank you and you're welcome.
djezi 1 month ago 2
"how many years can people exist before they are allowed to be free? oh, the answer, my friend, blowing in the wind..."
soulrebelnki92 1 month ago 2
The prototypical rock star.
RevoShaggy 1 month ago
this guy shuda lived on. Not only for his own sake, but also to see how he would of held-up during the Beatle rock era !
poffy8888 1 month ago
QUE BOSTA!
leolimap1 1 month ago in playlist Bob Dylan
q bosta
leolimap1 1 month ago in playlist Bob Dylan
In my opinion, the Occupy Wall Street movement won't be remember 10 years from now unless they get some attractive ideological-songs-of-the-movement like this.
Good bless Sam Cooke and Dylan.
InvestorClass 2 months ago 2
Not a big "folk music" fan, but good lord...Sam was f'ng amazing! This is the RIGHT sound for this song! And, get a load of Sam staying on beat even with the typical audience idiots who clap in 4/4 time vs. on the swing beat...and that was before good P.A. systems with quality audio monitor systems, ya know! He was a national treasure!
BigJH37 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sam Cooke 2
The most legendary singer ever
LelandnSonya4eva 2 months ago
Brilhante!!!
elisangela11000 2 months ago
Brilliant! Bobs wunderful lyrics preformed by sam! Great!
fisknyll1 2 months ago
i know who wrote the song. dont give me that comments. that was what i ment by getting over race issues. sam feels bob. thats not gay. thats human.
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this should help us getting over race - issues. life and music are universal, maybe the black people did have more problems to sing about back then. maybe today too. some people always have. because it is so. one world. love and peace. lets stay together. :) positive
popizm 3 months ago
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popizm 3 months ago
grande cancion ,grande interpretacion, grande musica, grande mundo en el que todos seamos libres ynos respetemos viva la vida
springteen11 3 months ago
Is it me or does anyone else recognize that Sam doesn't wear a process. (Slick hair prepared with a lye process) (burned the heck out of yur head). All entertainers during this era, straightened their hair. Very few African American males wore their hair natural. Social consciousness??
Sizzle1247 4 months ago 24
@Sizzle1247 I think on one of his documentaries, it is said that he had his hair in that style when he was doing the gospel circuit, but after becoming confident and proud of his culture, began to wear it natural.
mahcuz 3 months ago
@mahcuz you had to live in that era to understand how hard it was to be a black entertainer. had to come in the back door, couldn't use the washroom, couldn't eat in the dining rooms. they did what they had to in order to ply their craft. i am white but i had to hide to listen rhythm and blues stations because my church said that this is the devil's music. we have all grown a great deal but we still have a long way to go.
denisjl100 3 months ago
@mahcuz Did he live long enough to change his hairstyle? I love Sam Cooke and he would be handsome bald, I wish he had lived a long life. We lost so much!
retasueus 3 months ago
@retasueus See the comment I was replying to.
mahcuz 3 months ago
@Sizzle1247 Yes. Sam was a very conscious Black man. Well versed in Black history. He had a fairly large library of books on Black history. He was also close to Ali and Malcolm X. Sam was ahead of his time.
platesnforks 2 months ago 10
@Sizzle1247 He did wear it when he first broke from the church but then he went back to his roots soon after.
daxeboy9 2 months ago
@Sizzle1247 Yup he decided to wear his hair natural in 1959, NINE (9) years before James Browns hit in 1968...
indure08 1 month ago
I love Sam Cooke, the king of soul!
SuperTourinho 4 months ago
Thanks for Up Loading this!
AroundTheWaymon 4 months ago
wen the lights comes on, the 3rd lady frm the left fucks up big time
caddy37531 4 months ago
dude walks off the stage sayin im sam cooke biotch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
caddy37531 4 months ago
The voice of an angel.
Scooterblue1 4 months ago
awesome voice great song..
emanuel1193 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sam Cooke
i love this song but the beat be throwing me off some times with the clapping and shit.
caddy37531 4 months ago in playlist Sam Cooke Playlist
One of the baddest motherfuckers of all time covering one of the baddest motherfuckers of all time.
neonatalpenguin 4 months ago
@neonatalpenguin Wach your language and do not insult.
calihartley2010 3 months ago
@calihartley2010 I wasn't insulting anyone. On the motherfucking contrary.
neonatalpenguin 3 months ago
@neonatalpenguin Your language is insulting enough.
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@calihartley2010 Only to you. Get the fuck over it.
neonatalpenguin 3 months ago
I wish I was one of those kids Sam walked up to in the audience because you know that somewhere in this world those people are still alive with the best story ever.
sharks27 4 months ago
Share the song? Yes.
I can feel his frustration when he sings these lyrics like I can feel gospel singer's faith. It is strung out in every verse, note, and phrase. I heart the same yearning when I hear Stevie Wonder sing the song.
When I see the clips of either singing and watch people dancing, I wonder if they hear the words too. The lyrics make a person want to act and change whatever underlying thing that creates this level of hurt.
Does it really matter if one artist bleeds more.
GennaSt 4 months ago
Nothing compares to this ....... NOTHING
RadioCarino 4 months ago
Ok I just have to type this. He walked out onto the stage like "Yeah I'm Sam Cooke bioootch". He walked out with such swag...lol....
indure08 4 months ago
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indure08 4 months ago
HO LA PELLE D'OCA!
abbbio 4 months ago
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abbbio 4 months ago
@jovonwilliams77 it is completely unnecessary to throw race at this matter, you are not helping at all. Although racism was strong in the 60's against black people Bob Dylan wasn't a racist he made a song about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter which was about Rubin (a black boxer) being falsely imprisoned over a crime he didn't commit. Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan are both AMAZING artists they can share the damn song!!
DTanks1 5 months ago
Bob Dylan and Sam Cooke... such great writers... and fuck you if you disagree
FamousEddieFortune 5 months ago
this is a true song
Sandiforty 5 months ago
I really enjoyed this performance , thanks for posting.
metro121000 5 months ago 2
Like if timothy de laghetto brought u here..
polash101 5 months ago
No disrespect to the new songs, but if i had to choose, it would be oldie goldies. This is one f them.
Sandiforty 5 months ago
I had to replay Sam Cooke's records thousands of times on the record player for my mother asa child. "Play it again," is thus etched in my memory and it is linked to Sam Cooke's voice. Thank you for sharing this video. I'd never seen this before now.
miss30427 6 months ago
I just noticed this...look at the girl in the 1st seat at top right at 1:53...she's clapping like her life depends on it...lol.
indure08 6 months ago
Vocal chords on steroids = Sam Cooke....and if you've listened to his gospel, you know that his pop stuff is him basically trying to tone DOWN his voice.
indure08 6 months ago
Stevie Wonder cover was better
kingaeonsage9012 6 months ago
My great great uncle! I found out today!
Aaronc7775 6 months ago
@Aaronc7775 How amazing! Be sure and tell your children. His "A Change is Gonna Come' was anthem for Civil Rights Movement. He was a very big name in music during the 60's. You should be very proud. When he was alive there were signs throughout the entire South saying "Negros Not Allowed" in almost every outhouse, hotel, store and restaurant. Wish he had lived till 2008 to see that a change had come. Obama was elected President..
TamarZucker 6 months ago
Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding in one person. Amazing.....
nicdreic 6 months ago
Dont hate this song is better than all the white folk that song it....
jovonwilliams77 6 months ago
this version is for people who needs to exercise. lol. but peter paul and mary version is for broken hearts.
Sandiforty 6 months ago
Sam Cooke is my father. And I'm white, dammit.
Isthisitforme 6 months ago
You say Justin Bieber-I say sam cooke
You say Lil Wayne-I say temptations
You say Drake-I say louie armstrong
You say Soulja Boy-I say ben e. king
You say katty perry- i shout bobby darin
You say New school-i say shut the fuck up
You say Hannah Montana-i fucking punch you in the face
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gameruiners007 7 months ago
@gameruiners007 People have different tastes in music. It's not hard to comprehend.
CertifiedGooner729 7 months ago
What a voice! Nothing like it today.
bkc0761 7 months ago 2
The greatest song writer ever (Dylan) & The greatest singer ever (Cooke) make for a perfect, soulful, powerful performance!!!
1978BABY 7 months ago
whoo who can sing it like Sam Bob Dylan was lucky he covered this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
realbeautyness25 7 months ago
Love it!
dearmalika 7 months ago
Amazing! Amazing!
rb1124 7 months ago
Oh man this is great music!!!!!!!!!!!!!
telecaster1964 8 months ago
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Cerandubois 8 months ago
@NOLAsoulchild
AFICT the only version of this is on At the Copa.
Odelayful 8 months ago
aha
damn bob dylan, robber of other's people songs and being famous for them
grasthube 8 months ago in playlist Buddy Holly
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actually, sam cooke loved this song and covered it with dylan's permission. it inspired him to write "a change is gonna come".
kbuechner 8 months ago 25
@kbuechner What are you talking about Dylan..The truth is this is Sams song..Research about Sams life...A black man couldnt do what he wanted to in the 60s,you know that...Bio of Sam tells the truth...Bob Dylan is a LIE,and a damn theif...dONT REPLY UNTIL YOU KNOW THE TRUTH READ SOME,AND DONT GO OFF WHAT YOU HEARD thank you very much.I know you're White..and the truth makes you people mad ...
jovonwilliams77 5 months ago
@jovonwilliams77 The song was written by Bob Dylan in 1963 you stupid prick and i'm mixed race! and to disregard Bob Dylan just shows how brain dead you are when it comes to music!!!....any chance you are white?
zamr1982 5 months ago
@grasthube Check the fuckin backround before you write anything stupid, It's originally written by Bob Dylan.
beatlespoju 7 months ago 3
@beatlespoju still doesn't change the point that bob dylan sucks :)
grasthube 7 months ago
@grasthube Still doesn't change that you're a giant cocksucker : )
beatlespoju 7 months ago
@beatlespoju you can insult me, but bob dylan still sucks...prove me wrong (or else go buy his last crappy album)
grasthube 7 months ago
@grasthube No one can prove wrong your opinion. It's retarded, sure, seeing as Dylan was inarguably the most inspirational popular folk/rock singer songwriter of the early to mid 60s. That's inarguable man.
AllWalksofLife 7 months ago
He was SO sexy!
obiesheila 8 months ago
Did Sam ever record a studio version of this song? Because I've been looking for it for quite awhile.
NOLAsoulchild 8 months ago
@NOLAsoulchild He did indeed. Can't seem to find it anywhere though.
Great song however - a shame we didn't get to see anymore of Sam Cooke.
toofymoose 8 months ago
@toofymoose Well, I 'll keep searching and if I luck up and find it, I'll let cha know and please do the same if you find it. Thanks
NOLAsoulchild 8 months ago
Sam Cooke the most influential singer the world ever heard.
Gospel,Soul,Rock &Roll and even Reggae.
Omega1st 8 months ago
Among the notable songs written by by Sam Cooke: Ain't That Good News; Another Saturday Night; Bring It On Home To Me; Chain Gang; A Change Is Gonna Come; Cupid; Having A Party: Mean Old World; Only Sixteen; Sad Mood; Talkin' Trash; Twisting The Night Away; You Send Me.
By no means an all-inclusive list of Sam's song writing credits but pretty damn impressive.
notthemayor 9 months ago
my idol
LarryBrown1958 9 months ago
Yeah... whoever said Sam didn't write songs is a jackass. Sam wrote all of his best material - Change is Gonna Come; You Send Me; Bring it on Home to Me - which was somebody else's melody he wrote new words for. Chain Gang...
And sides - writing material and being great artist have nothing to do with eachother. Elvis and Sinatra - two of most post powerful & brilliant entertainers of all time didn't write their own songs. Only Jackasses think you have to write your own songs to be great.
MattMonks123 9 months ago
So the greatest singer of all time covering the greatest songwriter of all time... My soul thanks you
bensthompson 9 months ago
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tampatodabay 9 months ago
sam cooke=flawless!
is this the only live version from him on youtube?
XxGrandHustle06xX 9 months ago
I have undone my fears. Yet this vain vessel is nerved with pain. surly if these invisible tears were rain there would be showers everyday. if i say I think of death as my truest friend, would you all abandon me then? if i say when my soul is recycled I truly want to be a tree, rooted, deftly immune to the insane lies and selfish ideals of human-unkind, I wonder if you will dismissively ignore me then? ms. v
zneelrahc 10 months ago
@zneelrahc sooooo your saying, you want to kill yourself because your crying doesn't affect me, and you want me to visit your grave afterward, cause your coming back as a tree.....(I do have to pee..)
berriesandvine 9 months ago
@berriesandvine if i say think this particular way? would you abandon me for drawing such conclusions? if i felt a certain way? i wonder if my feeling that way would be dismissed?
btw I am just trying to understand the cycle of life and my existence as merely an atom of the whole pie, in short. well i've some answers.
zneelrahc 9 months ago
I hate when I have an orgasm and hit the dislike button, lol. Otis Redding is the best artist ever, than Van Morrison, and Sam Cooke.
dominusurfimus 10 months ago
DERS, NEVA! EVA! EVA! like SAM COOKE!;)
TheIkawatay 10 months ago
Bobby Womack said that this song, inspired Sam Cooke to write "A Change is gonna come"
247KBIRI 10 months ago 27
@247KBIRI What a great inspiration then ;) peace !!
joe60ise 6 months ago
amazing...what year was this from??
gbrot001 10 months ago
@gbrot001 1964
MsTruthFinder101 10 months ago
2 people died in an orgasm of sound, collapsing onto the mouse and accidentally hitting the dislike button.
killbob9999 11 months ago 2
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NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL SOUL!
killbob9999 11 months ago
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I wonder if the woman who murdered this great man was ever tormented by her evil act. God bless Sam Cooke.
charlyW34 11 months ago
I wonder if the woman who murdered this great man was ever tormented by her evil act. God bless Sam Cooke.
charlyW34 11 months ago
Interesting question; women of the so-called profession take dangerous risks as do the men they patronize. Sam, as a husband/father;etc, should NEVER have put himself in that position and at such a seedy location. Word has it that he was not the most rational drinker-mood changes and all. So sad that at a time in his life when his music grew so profound, he would lose his life in such a horrible manner. But he was an influence. I 've always felt that Marvin Gaye became what Sam would have been.
NYVoice 10 months ago
Truly amazing, Sam was totally blown away that a white guy (Bob Dylan) actually wrote a song that was so prevalent in it's day. And that is why he sang..
bcgoerke 11 months ago
love ya Sam,love love love ya Bobby Dylan.
satinhell818 11 months ago
How many times can a man turn his head, pretending he doesn't see
HipHop226 11 months ago
Damn, Thanks for uploading this. Never seen an actual vid of him before.. And performing? R.I.P Sam Cooke
MrRealtalk45 11 months ago
Love this cover!
mmedosrombos 11 months ago
Sam is gettin' it!
Treavce 1 year ago 2
This clip is from the premiere episode of "Shindig", aired 16 September 1964.
Cantabrigidian 1 year ago 3
the answer is that itz up to u and me
garyn1953 1 year ago
Does anyone know what year this performance is from?
TrueLight55 1 year ago
@TrueLight55 I'm not sure but i think 63 ou 64. I know that this song inspired Sam for his "A change is gonna come", I know he wrote and recorded it shortly before he got killed in december 1964. And I know he sang "Blowin' in the wind" (on tv and at his concerts, including the "Copacabana" one in 1964) roughly from the moment when he discovered it (when it came out) in 1963.
difolk 1 year ago
The man and sound and genius of Sam Cooke!!! One of a kind !!1
bj103094 1 year ago 4
love anything Sam Cooke!
tmlsage 1 year ago 3
@tmlsage (((Anything)))
Treavce 1 year ago
Wow
jamesdeleonhphs 1 year ago 2
EL SR. FUE GRANDE EN SUS TIEMPOS EXCELENTE INTERPRETE DE ESTE ESTILO
CATEDRATICOMTZ 1 year ago
very nearly ruined by the off-beat clapping....seems like the audience can't decide which beat they want to clap to....otherwise, a truly stunning vocal performance....i don't think a studio version of this is available
kmfdm10392 1 year ago
very nearly ruined by the off-beat clapping....seems like the audience can't decide which beat they want to clap to....otherwise, a truly stunning vocal performance....i don;t think a studio version of this is available
kmfdm10392 1 year ago
he was expressing the behaviour of others to blacks and he used a wonderful way to demonstrate it, through his writing and singing, EXCELLENT
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daidre1 1 year ago
this is a song about blacks were treated back then, he used a wonderful way to express it
daidre1 1 year ago
The greatest there ever was. Probably the greatest there ever will be.
R.I.P Sam aka "Mr. Soul".
19PoeticSoul 1 year ago 2
Sam Cooke does Dylan. That's a concert I would go see.
marydwyer14119 1 year ago 2
how they clap... like amateurs
SunflowerContest 1 year ago
I just finished the chapter on Sam Cooke in Peter Guralnick's "Sweet Soul Music." I wasn't aware that Sam was inspired by Dylan to write "A Change Is Gonna Come." If this performance is Sam's tribute to Bob, I can't think of a better one. No one could control his voice like the great Sam Cooke. I love how he takes a great song that Dylan delivers in a somewhat solemn way and makes it a joyous, hopeful cry. Miss the man's music.
brotherjahluv 1 year ago
The most perfect voice of them all. Special.
bobstroni 1 year ago 2
the best artist of all time dead or alive
dutchy419 1 year ago 4
I'm not gonna get into the who's the greatest debate, but you haven't heard Sam until you've heard his live albums and his early stuff with the Soul Stirrers. I'm a DJ so I have access to EVERYTHING, and I find myself listening to Sam more than anyone else. Catchy tunes and he wrote most of them himself.
ptelligence 1 year ago
The song which Sam said he"d wished he had written,and led him to write "Change is gonna come"
Bswaneffect 1 year ago
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This song was meant to be sung by Sam. Thanks for the swingin' times. Long live Mr. Soul!
bleejkd73 1 year ago
This song was meant to be sung by Sam. Thanks for a swingin' time. Long live Mr. Soul!
bleejkd73 1 year ago
Man...i belong in that era.
Waardaa 1 year ago
This v ery song caught the attention of Hoover.
Who viewed the new era of music or shift from Love song ballads to what they termed militant & revolutionary (blowing In the wind, Change is gonna come etc.
It was Hoovers orders...assassination of key celebrities that unfortunately ended Sam Cookes life.
AccentsNews 1 year ago
best version of Blowin in the wind...listen to the live one by Samon CD called Live At The Copa.
motreby 1 year ago
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BShears83 1 year ago
1:54 Vintage.
BShears83 1 year ago
This is probably my favorite version because of the soul that Sam gives the song, but considering what the song is about, the dancing is pretty annoying. The song is about people being blind to the suffering of others, and people are bopping to it like it's some zany 60's dance sensation.
windowpain1 1 year ago
@windowpain1 That's the same thing I was thinking, the dancing kind of contradicts the somber tone of the song. But I guess it's really no different from today or any other era, if a song with a conscious message also happens to have a good beat, most ppl are only concerned about dancing to it while a few will take in the message.
drlove1972 1 year ago
@windowpain1 They were "bopping to it" because Sam wanted them to bop to it. Come on. That is what he turned the song into. I wouldn't be surprised if he hand-selected each of the on-stage dancers.
TheFoxyDavid 1 year ago
@TheFoxyDavid Oh, I'm sure those teenagers were "planted" there by the "Shindig!" producers; they were just waiting for their "cue". That was the style of that show, frenetic choreography and dramatic staging. I'm sure some of those youngsters didn't even know who Sam was! But Sam put such a nice gospel twinge to this great folk song. And I dug Sam's shirt, too. I'd like to find one of those bad boys...
hmsheppard 1 year ago
He is me woodoo me magic:)
rakekkubiska 1 year ago
The finest version of them all, Sam Cooke was simply class in a glass ;-)
R.I.P Sam
MrStruth 1 year ago
If they ever get someone to play Sam in a movie.. it will probably be Will Smith.
chrixchua 1 year ago
Well said Jay, well said...
305Navi 1 year ago
What a great voice and an even greater loss!
lindapaintergirl 1 year ago
yea, they shoulda had a clapping lesson for da white folks that never went to a gospel tent. "here's the backbeat, DIS the upbeat."
SEANFIR 1 year ago 2
This version is so wonderful. The man is a music hero - he takes a great song like this and just owns it.
successincircuit 1 year ago
Sam Cooke in High Quality is great, still doesn't fix the off beat low quality clapping.
skydome29 1 year ago 2
not depths its deaths!
bigreg357 1 year ago
I don't mean to bring negativity but, people have been telling me that Sam Cooke was a better singer than Marvin Gaye. So I've been looking up a lot of Sam Cooke, and while I already knew he was great, I just don't see it. I don't think he can hold a candle to Marvin.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 I'm at a disadvantage, because anything I say about Sam is weighted and bias....But even Sam's Gospel is the best....He birthed a vocal style that made legions.Marvin, Al, Johnny Taylor,James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Isleys, Womacks, Lead singers for The Ovations, Alston with the Manhattans, Spinners, Highway QC's, Soul Stirrers.....Even me...Type in larry hilton cooke 4...LOL....He opened doors and owned before Motown...But really..Check out his gospel....Cooke
larrycancooke2 1 year ago
I will, but I doubt it will change my opinion. Marvin is so far ahead of the rest in my mind.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 I have to agree with larrycancooke2. Sam's gospel music is where he really shines. If I'd only heard his secular hits, I'd think Marvin was better, too. Marvin's a close third, though, in my opinion--right behind Ray Charles.
windowpain1 1 year ago 2
@windowpain1 Ray had a really unique and compelling voice. But I still take Marvin in a landslide. I guess I still need to look up Sam's gospel work. But I have a hard time imagining that I'll be convinced.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 Yeah. Sam's gospel work is the stuff of legend. He was a much better gospel singer than he was a secular singer. Which is saying a lot, because most consider him the greatest soul singer of all time!
JayGatz01 1 year ago 2
@KrfNYC2 Marvin was good. But, vocally, he couldn't hold a candle to a lot of people. Sam Cooke, David Ruffin, Jackie Wilson and other could blow him away, vocally. Marvin could never do what Sam Cooke did on "Live at the Harlem Square Club". Marvin didn't have the confidence in his own voice to let loose like Sam did.
JayGatz01 1 year ago 2
@JayGatz01 I disagree. I doubt that either one of will be able to convince the other to adopt our opinion. But everytime someone says that Cooke or Stevie or Hathaway etc. is better than Marvin I just ask them to acknowledge two things. Those are:
1.That Marvin could hit a far wider range of notes (And I'm talking astronomical distnce)
2. That Marvin was a far more gifted overall musicina (assuming that what we hear is truely he work of the artist who it's widley creited to)
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 Marvin learned from Sam, Marvin just took it to another level. That's all. I wish both of them could've sang together. I know this for a fact. Marvin was offered a role to play Sam Cooke, but Marvin said that he couldn't play a person that got shot. (Marvin was still hurt by Sam Cooke's being shot). And it's so strange that Marvin also got shot. Damn the good always go first.
KingMellow11 1 year ago
@KingMellow11 I don't know for sure how much, or if, Sam influenced Marvin. It's definitely a strong possibility though. Either way, all I'm saying is that Marvin's best vocal work sounds better than Sam's best vocal work...to me. And musically...Marvin's albums blow Sam's out of the water...no contest. I hear there's a movie coming out about Marvin. I'd love to see that. I wonder who would play him.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 Remember now. Sam and Marvin are from different eras. There's no telling what Sam would do if he was still here .I can't say it would be a no contest. Believe me , I'm not taking not one thing from Marvin. In his time , Marvin was and I must say still is the man. But Sam is also the man. Sam was 50's and early 60s. His life got cut short. Marvin is mid 60s , 70s, and early 80s. In my book, Marvin got cut short as well. I feel what you're saying though. They both were legends.
KingMellow11 1 year ago
@KingMellow11 I know. I feel you. But what I'm saying is that...influence aside...I enjoy Marvin's catalogue much more than Sam's.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
@KrfNYC2 Ok I like both
KingMellow11 1 year ago
@KingMellow11 Me too.
KrfNYC2 1 year ago
does anyone know the lyrics???
ndeysaan 1 year ago
How many roads must a man walk down
Before he's called a man
Tell me, how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Tell me, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
No, the answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer: blowin in the Wind.
TheAim666 1 year ago
How many times must a man look above
Before he sees the sky
Tell me, how many ears must one man have
before he can hear people cry
what I wanna know is
how many depths will it take till he knows
too many people have died
oh, the No, The answer, my friend, is blowin In the wind,
The answer: somewhere in the the Wind.
TheAim666 1 year ago 8