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Cooke landed his first professional job as a lead vocalist with The Soul Stirrers, a renowned gospel group, in 1950. He recorded with them until 1956, releasing several hits such as “Jesus Gave Me Water” and “Touch The Hem Of His Garment.” Cooke’s music career took off when he left The Soul Stirrers and transitioned to ...
SAR was established in 1959 by Sam Cooke, music publisher J.W. Alexander, and S. Roy Crain, Cooke’s road manager and founder of gospel group The Soul Stirrers. The acronymous name...
The first two LPs are glorious Gospel performances, mainly featuring the group he used to front, The Soul Stirrers. Their original lead singer, R.H. Harris,, whose sophistication and poise Cooke modelled himself on, appears with his Gospel Paraders on five tracks. It’s almost like hearing the great man himself. The Womack Brothers ...
Track 2: Bryan Ferry, “The ‘In’ Crowd”. Track 3: The Pretenders, “Message of Love”. Track 4: Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, “Jesus Wash Away My Troubles”. Track 5: Split Enz ...
Among the many we might recall today, particular mention should be reserved for “A Change Is Gonna Come”, written and recorded by Sam Cooke sixty years ago, in 1964. Generally regarded – to quote Mike Marqusee – as “the first masterpiece of socially conscious soul”, the song marks a towering peak in a long tradition of emancipatory imagining by black artists.
Cooke’s career came in two phases. As a member of the groundbreaking Soul Stirrers, a premier gospel group of the 1950s, he electrified the African American church community nationwide with a light, lilting vocal style that soared rather than thundered.
According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father," recorded by the Soul Stirrers with Johnnie Taylor singing lead.
