709 Sam Cooke (1931-1964) “A Change Is Gonna Come” 1964

After Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston, he “was in the middle of an interview with television announcer Steve Ellis and former champ Joe Louis when he spotted Sam, almost disheveled with excitement, his tie removed, shirt open. ‘Sam Cooke!’ the new champion called out with unabashed enthusiasm. ‘Hey, let that man up here…Let Sam in,’ he insists with all the fervor he has put into the fight. ‘This is the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll singer’” (Peter Guralnick, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, 2005). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 

Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come”