As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Thursday, November 13, 2014

#9 A Change Is Gonna Come -- Sam Cooke (1965)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs

This classic civil rights anthem, which wasn’t released as a single until a few weeks after Cooke’s untimely death in December of 1964, is in the National Recording Registry maintained by the Library of Congress. It’s also been recognized as one of the greatest songs of all time by NPR and Rolling Stone magazine, and is in the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Hard to believe, then, that RCA Victor threw it out there as the B-side of the record (“Shake” was the A-side), and it only reached a modest #31 on the Hot 100.
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