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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