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Obskurni wrote:

In 1963, Sam Cooke -- America's first great soul singer and one of the most successful pop acts in the nation, with eighteen Top Thirty hits since 1957 -- heard a song that profoundly inspired and disturbed him: Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." What struck Cooke was the challenge implicit in Dylan's anthem. "Jeez," Cooke mused at the time, "a white boy writing a song like that?"

Cooke's response, "A Change Is Gonna Come," recorded on January 30th, 1964, with a sumptuous orchestral arrangement by Rene Hall, was more personal: in its first-person language and the experiences that preceded its creation. On October 8th, 1963, while on tour in the South, Cooke and members of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to register at a white motel -- an incident reflected in the song's third verse. And Cooke's mourning for his eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who died that June in a drowning accident, resonates in the final verse: "There have been times that I thought/I couldn't last for long."

On December 11th, 1964, nearly a year after he recorded the song, Cooke was fatally shot at a Los Angeles motel. Two weeks later, "A Change Is Gonna Come" was released as a single -- Cooke's farewell address and final hit.

dale cooper wrote:Ljudi obično izdvajaju naslovnu pjesmu What's Going On, međutim taj kompletan album
je remek djelo. Jedan od ranih primjera koncept albuma u soulu. Marvin je imao dosta
problema sa šefom Motown Records Berry Gordyem zbog toga jer je ovaj htjeo feel good
singl hitove, a ne pesimistični i politički angažovani koncept album koji je bio kao ogledalo
rasnih tenzija Amerike u to doba direktno nakon Vijetnamskog rata. Uspjeh album je pokazao
da je Marvin bio u pravu. Poslije je snimio isto tako odlični Let's Get It On album koji je čisti seks
u muzičkom obliku, a krajem 70-tih i Here My Dear koji je bio druga strana ljubavne medalje i kao
hronologija raspada braka sa tadašnjom ženom. Oba albuma kao stvorena za forumaše sa LJ&S.

Obskurni wrote:Apsolutno nevjerovatno i bezvremenski

Well, that was one song on there we did a lot of sound on, you know. We put the guitar through the Leslie speaker of an organ, and it sounds like jelly bread, you know….It’s based on a very, very simple American Indian style, you know, very simple. I got the idea like, when we was in Monterey, and I just happened to…just looking at everything around. So I figured that I take everything I see around and put it maybe in the form of a girl maybe, something like that, you know, and call it 'Little Wing', in other words, just fly away. Everybody really flying and they’s really in a nice mood, like the police and everybody was really great out there. So I just took all these things an put them in one very, very small little matchbox, you know, into a girl and then do it. It was very simple, you know. That’s one of the very few ones I like.