Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It’s been an Otis Redding kind of night. This cover of the Sam Cooke classic is just breathtaking. Buy Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul Download: MP3: Otis Redding-”A Change is Gonna’ Come”
The Economist (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Sarah Palin on Palestine IT IS growing disturbingly clear that if Sam Cooke had sung about Sarah Palin, that song would have lasted twelve days. Jeffrey Goldberg flags the purest example I've ever seen of the talking point in action. Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin, "What happens if the goal of democracy doesn't produce the desired outcome? In Gaza, the US pushed hard for elections and Hamas won."And...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Sam Cooke forgive me, but McCain certainly doesn't know anything about economics. In fact, he's a total ignoramus, even by Keynesian standards. So he suspends his campaign to help gin up panic over not giving taxpayer money to billionaires, and...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Filed under: I Freakin' Love This Song Spinner.com : 'Touch the Hem of His Garment,' Sam CookeFrom 1956I was born three months premature and deaf, with minimal chance of ever gaining my hearing. On Easter Day four months later, the organs rang out at church, I let out a cry and my hearing was... Read more
A Plague of Angels (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
[ MP3 ] JENTRI COLELLO/"Bird of Prey" [2008] [ MP3 ] ELECTRIC SIX/"Heavy Woman" [2008] [ MP3 ] MARY LOU LORD/"Sunspot Stopwatch" [1997] [ MP3 ] RADIOHEAD/"Let Down" [1997] [ MP3 ] R.E.M./"Let Me In" [1994] [ MP3 ] SAM COOKE/"Chain Gang" [1960]
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
A true Renaissance man of the blues, Gary Brooks is a whiskey-throated vocalist, versatile keyboardist and showman who can handle everything from cocktail lounge shows to stadium concerts. Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Seeger, Otis Redding, Joe Cocker, B.B. KIng, Sam Cooke, Allman Bros.- you name the act - Gary probably covers some of their tunes. He's a frequent host of the Albany,...
Spread the Good Word! (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
People ! I’m back ! Hope everyone’s ok...well let me see, let’s start with dynamite shall we. Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club ! Yeah ! Sam Cooke is one of my secret hero, I bet he’s one of yours too ! Frankly, most of Sam Cooke's pop hits were sugary, blanched affairs (don’t get me wrong, I love the tracks that way). But this live album was the real deal, giving us the church-reared R&B singer...
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME By Sam Cooke I was born by the river in a little tent And just like that river I've been running ever since It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die Cos I don't know what's out there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will And then...
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
He is an artiste who has graced many stages, a hybrid redolent of soul, pop, rock, blues and R&B influenced by luminaries such as Queen, Prince and Sam Cooke and a man who has proved, across the years that he...
The Agonist (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Rush, man Lee Dorsey The Animals Sam Cooke Chrissy Hynde Donna Summer Cannonball Adderly Enjoy your day off (if you have one); remember why it's a National Holiday in the U.S.; remember how much Saint Ronnie and the Republicans have done to destroy it.
on 205th magazine (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
England is pretty fired up about doing so well in the Olympics. They are also very excited about getting to host the next Summer Games. So excited in fact, that they are now painting their boobie girls up with gold paint. Case in point... Sam Cooke... Does ZOO deliver to the States? Can I get a comp subscription? For 'research purposes' of course.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
"There've been times that I thought I couldn't last for long/But now I think I'm able to carry on/It's been a long time coming/But I know a change is gonna come." Sam Cooke, the great R&B singer, wrote those words in 1963 following a visit to a civil rights event in what was then Jim Crow North Carolina. Thursday evening, an era and more than a thousand miles away, Barack Obama echoed Cooke. "America,...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
How about a little Monday Night Soul? Jesse Dee from Boston (the city, not the band) is working on bridging the gap between Paul Weller and Jamie Cullum. Here’s the official word: Jesse Dee’s influences read like a Who’s Who of classic soul music. Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Al Green and many [...]
Althouse (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch. The source material is the great old Sam Cooke song "What a Wonderful World," and you can hear it on this video, which, like the new ad, has a political theme: blog advertising blog advertising
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Obama's newest ad: It's okay, but I agree with Josh Orton : It uses the infectious riff from Sam Cooke's classic " Wonderful World, " but is it too cute? McCain's ignorance of economics is dangerous - why give the impression that the problem is benign? And why not use McCain's quote about the economy's supposed "strength?" Maybe this will catch on. The song sure gets stuck in your head.
