Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1964
Pass it on
RCA · Sony Music Entertainment
A Change Is Gonna Come
85Living historically.
RCA, under Sony. Hope, after a door is shut in his face.
The review
RCA released it. Sony owns RCA. Cooke had sung smooth songs. This is the one he wrote after he was turned away, and after he heard a voice from his own generation say the country was not finished. He did not live to see much of the change. The record did.
Play it when the house is tempted to say nothing moves. Then do one thing that moves.
Journal
Keep A Change Is Gonna Come in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 85. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
He wrote it, sang it, and knew it might be the last serious thing.
- 6Household
A mother, a home he is not sure he will see.
- 8Piety
He asks a question of heaven and does not sneer at the asking.
- 9Courage
He tells the truth about the theater that would not seat him.
- 9Republic
A citizen, refused, who still believes the country can be corrected.
- 7Temperance
Grief held in a line. Not spilled for effect.
- 10Truth
The refusal is described exactly.
- 10Stewardship
A song the house should know by heart.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · A Change Is Gonna Come · 85IMDb
