This is the night on johnny carson that sam cooke sang a change is gonna come live. They don't want that part to be known. What a shame. We would love to see it.
Damn I saw your comment and thought I was the first to deem Ms.King "Great" on another video...anyway she is now very relevant to the African American Community.
The date of this broadcast, February 7, 1964 a Friday was the day the Beatles arrived in New York City. Two days later they would play on the Ed Sullivan Show. And the rest is HISTORY!
This is an absolute *Masterclass* in Vocal Phrasing. His sense of timing and rhythm, his ability to go from dragging-to rushing, all while being so smooth-that you don’t even notice it… 0:48 . . .1:04. . . 1:10 . . .1:44. . .1:57. . . 2:03 He was literally _The Perfect Singer,_ in every possible way.
Indeed...his phrasing is in a class by itself...subtle yet distinctly different from most singers. Many singers with lesser voices, today, would be great by studying his phrasing alone.
As I understand, the recording of A Change Gonna Come does exist, but is tied up in legal mess, but was not lost or destroyed. Basin Street Blues was a cover tune, while Change was one of Sam's original compositions, thus the legal mess. As a long-time Sam Cooke fan, I pray that the tape is released one day soon..
MALZZZZification I worked with a producer who coordinates tributes to Sam each year. Plus, I read about the tape in Peter Guralnick's book, Dream Boogie, a bio on Sam.
@@torrebrannon8180 Let's hope that someday that tape will be released. Sam's only ever public performance of 'Change' would immediately be recognized as one of the greatest musical performances ever caught on tape.
@@daveidmarx8296 100% !! I hope that comes out. Man I wish there was a visual to his show at the Harlem Square Club.. One of the best live performances ever
Don't believe it it's not true. There's two legal tangle other than the fact that Sam's wife is trying to keep his children from getting any proceeds. Sam never sang A change is going to come on The Tonight Show. He did not intend for it to be commercialized. He wrote the song for dr. Martin Luther King with the proceeds to go to the SCLC. When he died Alan Klein stuck it on the flip side of shake. Tells you who wanted to see Sam Cooke dead. Sam was promoting ain't that good news his hit single that the time at the Basin Street Blues when she was singing at the Copacabana. Renee Hall do the arrangements with Johnny Carson references.
His sure has this incredible voice that nobody else can duplicate...he surely stands his own ground and that voice really wows me... love his songs ...sad he was gone too young
What a beautiful voice something that you will never hear again to me I listen to the youngsta music to me they want to be seen and heard and just as phony as they can be they need to pay attention to music like this they can learn something
My parents raised me listening to artists like Sam, Jackie, Aretha, Otis, Marvin, and other great soul singers so I already knew how phenomenal of a talent Sam was. I just finished watching One Night in Miami and had to look up this video.
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February 7, 1964 a Friday the day the Beatles arrived in New York City. Two days later they would play on the Ed Sullivan Show. And the rest is HISTORY!
One Night in Miami brought me here. But I’ve really appreciated “A change change is gonna come” since we sung it at my great Uncle’s funeral in 2016, That was his favorite song.... Sam Cooke is forever a Legend 💯
WOW. what a masterful performance. those handclaps! such an incredible shame that his ONLY performance of 'A Change Is Gonna Come' from later on this same broadcast was not saved.
Exactly what I was thinking! I'd love to hear an explanation of how that happened - that one part of the Feb 7th show survived and the other one didn't. My more skeptical side wonders if, given the volatile racial climate of the time, archivists weren't exactly eager to save the performance. Think of it: during a period that just had the March on Washington and Kennedy's assassination months earlier, "Change" would have been a very jolting, urgent and provocative comment on current events. Its dark, haunting tone would have stood in deep contrast to this cheery performance, and might have been interpreted as the singer's direct message to the nation. As if with doing both performances side by side, he's trying to say, "As happy as I usually am, I'm not going to pretend like something isn't deeply wrong with our country." Remember also that "Change" was the first and only serious song Cooke ever did, so such a shift in performance style surely shook his audience, who was used to seeing a happy-go-lucky Cooke. It would have stood far apart from all his previous performances, and on such a "third rail" topic. Maybe all of that made the performance "too hot to handle"? In any case, we might be pleasantly surprised in the future. After all, we certainly didn't think we'd see "Metropolis" (the 1927 film by Fritz Lang) in full ever again.
Based on a brief conversation that I had some years ago with Peter Guralnick, he’s of the opinion that it’ll turn up one day. You know why? Because he’s seen it. His description in ‘Dream Boogie’ is too detailed NOT to have seen it. ABKCO probably has it in their ‘vault.’
That night the four Beatles were at the Plaza Hotel, watching TV after a busy day, their first day in America, quite posibly watching Sam at The Tonight Show.
The world’s greatest singer/entertainer of that era should have been invited to sit in the guest chair with Johnny. That underhanded comment by Johnny about Sam standing receiving his applause was unnecessary! What an insult!
After hearing this unique magnificience of a performance, I am superbly enticed to make my maiden sojourn into New Orleans's "Basin Street Blues" Square. Sam's delivery is sweet, soulful and persuasive; don't you approve? Well, let's solicit an encore from the man who has invented Classical Soul; shall we not? Most assuredly!
I don't know if the tape still exist or has been destroyed by yt people but I am still mad that we will never get the change to watch him perform "A change gonna come" but I hope one day that tape will be released if it's ever alive or hidden somewhere.
I have written this so many times. There is no tape of A Change is Gonna Come because Sam never sang the song commercially. He wrote it for Dr. Martin Luther King's SCLC never seeking to profit from it. The two songs he sang on The Tonight Show were Ain't that Good News and Basin Street Blues. Nobody sang three songs on The Tonight Show; there wasn't enough time. Also something to consider: If you think RCA would let Sam sing a song like that on National Television think again about the mid-60s. Didn't happen
The movie is fictional none of that happened. The playwright admitted it when it was a play in Miami. In fact the conversations that were had between Malcolm Sam Muhammad Ali and only occasionally Jim Brown happened at Dolphins of Hollywood in SLA, which the LAPD had tried to shut down for breaking segregation laws of the time. Amazing that LA had such a thing but it did. The Tonight Show seldom featured someone singing three songs. Two was generally the limit. The only exception might be someone like Tony Bennett but for the most part an artist sang one, maybe two songs. Sam never sang that song for money. I'm telling you his nephew, his sister's son, told me this family truth about the song. In fact when Sam first did the tape of the recording he brought it over to his parents house in Chicago and they listened in stunned silence. Goosebumps. His brother David relay this to me. You can read about it in One More River to Cross: the Redemption of Sam Cooke of which a new edition is coming out very shortly but the Kindle version is still available. There never was a tape of A Change is Gonna Come because he never sang it there.
If people are claiming there is a tape they are misinformed. There is no tape. The tape of Sam on that show has him singing Ain't That Good News and Basin Street Blues. That was plenty for a singer of his stature at that time. This was the first time he was ever on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson was a comedian and the bulk of the show was comedy. Music provided variety and a break, that was it. Sam had felt badly that he had not done enough to contribute to the movement and when he met Dr. King at the Atlanta airport shortly after the March on Washington which he could not attend due to a touring commitment, he promised him a song and thought perhaps he could even get other artists to contribute music to an album. You have to remember things like this were not done in the music business. They felt they owned these artists. If you know how the movie Studios owned actors it was even rougher for artist in music. They did not like somebody like Sam Cooke producing other young singers. The mob ran the music business and RCA was just as mobbed-up as the rest of them. That's why they took Sam out. That and the fact that he discovered they had stolen his titles of operation and fraudulently registered a new one under Allen Klein's name in the Reno, NV courthouse.
The movie was fictional but inspired by true events. The 4 iconic Blacks didn’t meet each other one night at Miami. Guess Regina King thought it d be epic for Leslie Odom JR to sing “Good Times” at the end of the movie.
Just understand that that movie is pure fiction. These meetings did not go on in Miami they went on at dolphins of Hollywood Record Shop which was closed down by LAPD for not adhering to segregation laws. Also say I'm never Saying A change is going to come on The Tonight Show. He never sang it publicly anywhere. He was promoting ain't that good news kiss new singel and Basin Street Blues which he would be singing at the Copa. I will have a new edition of my book One More River to cross the Redemption of Sam Cooke which will detail this, as as have my other editions.
The movie One Night in Miami brought me here to see Awesome Sam Cooke! What a talent.
The movie immediately drew me here as well
Me too 😀😀
No Cap 🧢
Yup just finished the movie
Same!!! Lol
Here after One Night in Miami.
What a movie, huh!? Loved it
Same!!
Yessssss
Me 2
Me too.
One Night in Miami brought me here.
Me too 😂
This is the night on johnny carson that sam cooke sang a change is gonna come live. They don't want that part to be known. What a shame. We would love to see it.
They need to be petitioned as its of historical interest
Man this guy was so great, what a terrible shame he was gone so soon 😢 there will never be another like Sam Cooke
Had to see this joint again after the: One Night in Miami film by The Great Regina King 🏆
Damn I saw your comment and thought I was the first to deem Ms.King "Great" on another video...anyway she is now very relevant to the African American Community.
I watched one night in miami. It brought me here. 😥😥😥
Nobody to this day can Top this .
The date of this broadcast, February 7, 1964 a Friday was the day the Beatles arrived in New York City. Two days later they would play on the Ed Sullivan Show. And the rest is HISTORY!
This is an absolute *Masterclass* in Vocal Phrasing.
His sense of timing and rhythm, his ability to go from dragging-to rushing, all while being so smooth-that you don’t even notice it…
0:48 . . .1:04. . . 1:10 . . .1:44. . .1:57. . . 2:03
He was literally _The Perfect Singer,_ in every possible way.
Indeed...his phrasing is in a class by itself...subtle yet distinctly different from most singers. Many singers with lesser voices, today, would be great by studying his phrasing alone.
This was on my birthday ❤
As I understand, the recording of A Change Gonna Come does exist, but is tied up in legal mess, but was not lost or destroyed. Basin Street Blues was a cover tune, while Change was one of Sam's original compositions, thus the legal mess. As a long-time Sam Cooke fan, I pray that the tape is released one day soon..
Torrence Brannon Where did you hear that? From what I know the tape doesn't exist anymore
MALZZZZification I worked with a producer who coordinates tributes to Sam each year. Plus, I read about the tape in Peter Guralnick's book, Dream Boogie, a bio on Sam.
@@torrebrannon8180 Let's hope that someday that tape will be released. Sam's only ever public performance of 'Change' would immediately be recognized as one of the greatest musical performances ever caught on tape.
@@daveidmarx8296 100% !! I hope that comes out. Man I wish there was a visual to his show at the Harlem Square Club.. One of the best live performances ever
Don't believe it it's not true. There's two legal tangle other than the fact that Sam's wife is trying to keep his children from getting any proceeds. Sam never sang A change is going to come on The Tonight Show. He did not intend for it to be commercialized. He wrote the song for dr. Martin Luther King with the proceeds to go to the SCLC. When he died Alan Klein stuck it on the flip side of shake. Tells you who wanted to see Sam Cooke dead. Sam was promoting ain't that good news his hit single that the time at the Basin Street Blues when she was singing at the Copacabana. Renee Hall do the arrangements with Johnny Carson references.
His sure has this incredible voice that nobody else can duplicate...he surely stands his own ground and that voice really wows me... love his songs ...sad he was gone too young
Thanks for posting; never heard of this song before. Guess I need to fire up Alexa @ night and listen to ALL of his tunes!!
What a beautiful voice something that you will never hear again to me I listen to the youngsta music to me they want to be seen and heard and just as phony as they can be they need to pay attention to music like this they can learn something
❤️ Listen to him sing Summertime & That’s Where It’s At! ❤️
certainly one of the best voices ever
I wish I could see him sing a change is gonna come ❤️
GREATEST SINGER OF ALL TIME
He really did have one of the best voices of all time.
I definitely agree with you on that
I respectfully disagree.
Imho, he had THE Greatest voice of all time.
My parents raised me listening to artists like Sam, Jackie, Aretha, Otis, Marvin, and other great soul singers so I already knew how phenomenal of a talent Sam was. I just finished watching One Night in Miami and had to look up this video.
February 7, 1964 a Friday the day the Beatles arrived in New York City. Two days later they would play on the Ed Sullivan Show. And the rest is HISTORY!
One Night in Miami brought me here. But I’ve really appreciated “A change change is gonna come” since we sung it at my great Uncle’s funeral in 2016, That was his favorite song.... Sam Cooke is forever a Legend 💯
The greatest of all time! :)
Watched One Night in Miami last night - great film. Hope it wins the nominated Oscars it's in for this month.
10 months LATER UNTIMELY DEATH,that NIGHT HE SANG "CHANGE GONNA COME" that SEGMENT was never to be seen or LOCATED.. RIP THE KING RIP
Rip Sam Cooke truly a great legend!
On top of Everything else, Why does he have to be so FINE!!!!❤
Basin street blues love it and I always listen to it because im from New Orleans. I grew up listening to his music.
Its sad how he is singing doing what he loves not knowing in a few months he would be gone from us 😩😭💔.
one night in miami is the reason i’m here. RIP MALCOM X
WOW. what a masterful performance. those handclaps! such an incredible shame that his ONLY performance of 'A Change Is Gonna Come' from later on this same broadcast was not saved.
Exactly what I was thinking!
I'd love to hear an explanation of how that happened - that one part of the Feb 7th show survived and the other one didn't.
My more skeptical side wonders if, given the volatile racial climate of the time, archivists weren't exactly eager to save the performance. Think of it: during a period that just had the March on Washington and Kennedy's assassination months earlier, "Change" would have been a very jolting, urgent and provocative comment on current events. Its dark, haunting tone would have stood in deep contrast to this cheery performance, and might have been interpreted as the singer's direct message to the nation. As if with doing both performances side by side, he's trying to say, "As happy as I usually am, I'm not going to pretend like something isn't deeply wrong with our country."
Remember also that "Change" was the first and only serious song Cooke ever did, so such a shift in performance style surely shook his audience, who was used to seeing a happy-go-lucky Cooke. It would have stood far apart from all his previous performances, and on such a "third rail" topic.
Maybe all of that made the performance "too hot to handle"?
In any case, we might be pleasantly surprised in the future. After all, we certainly didn't think we'd see "Metropolis" (the 1927 film by Fritz Lang) in full ever again.
Smh...trust me they have it....the power of technology..and there time machines..if they truly wanted to retrieve it they could. Very sad
Based on a brief conversation that I had some years ago with Peter Guralnick, he’s of the opinion that it’ll turn up one day. You know why? Because he’s seen it. His description in ‘Dream Boogie’ is too detailed NOT to have seen it. ABKCO probably has it in their ‘vault.’
Roy Shuler i hope your right
@@smile4me576Shoot if that were the case... don't you think someone would try an save him from meeting his demise???... weird take man
He kills this on the studio version, I mean kills it!!!!!!!!
The Great Sam Cooke
That night the four Beatles were at the Plaza Hotel, watching TV after a busy day, their first day in America, quite posibly watching Sam at The Tonight Show.
The Beatles wanted to tour with Sam ..but Sam was all booked up
Sam Cooke played no games ☝🏾
Love this song sing sam my favorite.
One night in Miami also bought me here.
Sam we miss u brotha. That 1 night n Miami
How captivating. His entire presence is something to be completely enthralled with ❤️
I want to see the actual footage of a Change is Gonna Come!!
Movie was so beautiful very powerful loved it so much ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
The greatest of all time!
Love this.
Dang the movie was deep
Where's the performance for "A change is gonna come"??? I've been searching YEARS for that
Rest In Peace brother
Man Sam and Johnny could both get it
Also here after One Night in Miami.
A pure Genius.. Black people are amazing!!!
So inspiring
Johnny Carson was in Love with Sam.I don't blame you Johnny, i understand. Sam Cooke was the GREATEST ❤❤
The world’s greatest singer/entertainer of that era should have been invited to sit in the guest chair with Johnny. That underhanded comment by Johnny about Sam standing receiving his applause was unnecessary! What an insult!
After hearing this unique magnificience of a performance, I am superbly enticed to make my maiden sojourn into New Orleans's "Basin Street Blues" Square.
Sam's delivery is sweet, soulful and persuasive; don't you approve?
Well, let's solicit an encore from the man who has invented Classical Soul; shall we not?
Most assuredly!
❤️❤️❤️
sam cooke greatest soul singer, the black sinatra
I pulled up another video of Johnny Carson in the same year this was recorded in (1964) and it was in color and more clear. Why is that?
One night in Miami..!
They should’ve got Denzel to play him in a movie
I don't know if the tape still exist or has been destroyed by yt people but I am still mad that we will never get the change to watch him perform "A change gonna come" but I hope one day that tape will be released if it's ever alive or hidden somewhere.
I have written this so many times. There is no tape of A Change is Gonna Come because Sam never sang the song commercially. He wrote it for Dr. Martin Luther King's SCLC never seeking to profit from it. The two songs he sang on The Tonight Show were Ain't that Good News and Basin Street Blues. Nobody sang three songs on The Tonight Show; there wasn't enough time.
Also something to consider: If you think RCA would let Sam sing a song like that on National Television think again about the mid-60s. Didn't happen
@@SamCookeFan11 so you are saying that the people who happened to be there during the time was lying about him singing it?
The tape hasn't being destroyed, its tied up on a legal battle, only time will tell weather it will be released or not
The movie is fictional none of that happened. The playwright admitted it when it was a play in Miami. In fact the conversations that were had between Malcolm Sam Muhammad Ali and only occasionally Jim Brown happened at Dolphins of Hollywood in SLA, which the LAPD had tried to shut down for breaking segregation laws of the time. Amazing that LA had such a thing but it did. The Tonight Show seldom featured someone singing three songs. Two was generally the limit. The only exception might be someone like Tony Bennett but for the most part an artist sang one, maybe two songs. Sam never sang that song for money. I'm telling you his nephew, his sister's son, told me this family truth about the song. In fact when Sam first did the tape of the recording he brought it over to his parents house in Chicago and they listened in stunned silence. Goosebumps. His brother David relay this to me. You can read about it in One More River to Cross: the Redemption of Sam Cooke of which a new edition is coming out very shortly but the Kindle version is still available. There never was a tape of A Change is Gonna Come because he never sang it there.
If people are claiming there is a tape they are misinformed. There is no tape. The tape of Sam on that show has him singing Ain't That Good News and Basin Street Blues. That was plenty for a singer of his stature at that time. This was the first time he was ever on The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson was a comedian and the bulk of the show was comedy. Music provided variety and a break, that was it. Sam had felt badly that he had not done enough to contribute to the movement and when he met Dr. King at the Atlanta airport shortly after the March on Washington which he could not attend due to a touring commitment, he promised him a song and thought perhaps he could even get other artists to contribute music to an album. You have to remember things like this were not done in the music business. They felt they owned these artists. If you know how the movie Studios owned actors it was even rougher for artist in music. They did not like somebody like Sam Cooke producing other young singers. The mob ran the music business and RCA was just as mobbed-up as the rest of them. That's why they took Sam out. That and the fact that he discovered they had stolen his titles of operation and fraudulently registered a new one under Allen Klein's name in the Reno, NV courthouse.
Terrible they have him singing A Change Gonna To Come this same night but somehow it don’t exist
I am so happy to see this footage. Yet they say the footage of his performance of “A Change Gonna Come” on the “Tonight Show” didn’t survive????? 👀 😢
Wonder why in Night In Miami they had “him” singing Good Times instead of Basin Street Blues.
The movie was fictional but inspired by true events. The 4 iconic Blacks didn’t meet each other one night at Miami. Guess Regina King thought it d be epic for Leslie Odom JR to sing “Good Times” at the end of the movie.
Because ABKCO owns the song.
Allen Klein may be gone but his legacy lives on😅
@@jasondeleaver2318 they were in that motel though. Nobody knew what they spoke about. But it did happen
Rare kinescope I assume.
Why was this in black and white when everyone had color tv in 64.... hmmmmm stop trying to make sam look ancient.
why they remove the a change gonna come performance
No one removed it. The film isn't officially known to exist.
Sam never intended to profit from the song oh, never singing it publicly. Wrote it for Dr. King's SCLC.
When Malcolmsaid shit Sam got more money then any of us that's causedhe owned his master's deep
Insanity.
Stubborn singer
Answer the question boy
Yeah what do u. Mean boy.
Just understand that that movie is pure fiction. These meetings did not go on in Miami they went on at dolphins of Hollywood Record Shop which was closed down by LAPD for not adhering to segregation laws. Also say I'm never Saying A change is going to come on The Tonight Show. He never sang it publicly anywhere. He was promoting ain't that good news kiss new singel and Basin Street Blues which he would be singing at the Copa. I will have a new edition of my book One More River to cross the Redemption of Sam Cooke which will detail this, as as have my other editions.