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"The song (of course there were many more factors) that inspired Sam to write 'A Change Is Gonna Come' was Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind'. Sam couldn't understand how a white man could write such a powerful and meaningful song like this and he himself, a black man had not. Sam thought he should have written Blowing in the Wind. He told J.W. that he was almost ashamed. It wasn't how Bob sang the song "it was what he had to say" said Sam. #SamCooke #HappyBlackHistoryMonth #BlowinInTheWind #TheManWhoInvintedSoul #Pioneer #TheGreatest #SamCook #SamCookeOfficial"

"The song (of course there were many more factors) that inspired Sam to write 'A Change Is Gonna Come' was Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind'. Sam couldn't understand how a white man could write such a powerful and meaningful song like this and he himself, a black man had not. Sam thought he should have written Blowing in the Wind. He told J.W. that he was almost ashamed. It wasn't how Bob sang the song "it was what he had to say" said Sam. #SamCooke #HappyBlackHistoryMonth #BlowinInTheWind #TheManWhoInvintedSoul #Pioneer #TheGreatest #SamCook #SamCookeOfficial"

"Basin Street, my basin street; where the young and the old folk meet, down in New Orleans, in that land of dreams.You don't know how nice it really seems. But it's dear to me, yes-sirree. And that's the place I'm so longing to be.Where maybe I can lose, these old Basin Street blues.' Sam Performed this song on the Mike Douglas Show in February of 1964. I like the clip of the later performance of Sam singing Basin Street Blues but I couldn't upload it. If you haven't already, go check it out on YouTube! #SamCooke #SamCookeOfficial #TheGreatest #Pioneer #OneOfAKind #BasinStreetBlues #SamCook #1964 #MikeDouglasShow" #BlackHistory