it's been a very sam cooke kind of week. sometimes you just need a sweet voice like that singing in your ear, no?
i recently came across this video...
the gang's all here : sam cooke & muhammad ali
from peter guralnick's sam cooke bio:
sam cooke first met cassius clay in 1960, before the boxer changed his name to muhammad ali. he was impressed by clay's burgeoning interest in islam, while the boxer in turn was a fan of his music. at clay's fight with sonny liston in miami on 25 february 1964, cooke was in the audience, just a few seats away from malcolm x. clay won after liston refused to answer the bell for the seventh round, and then interrupted a tv interview in the ring when he spotted cooke, shouting: "this is the world's greatest rock'n'roll singer!"
and this one, i believe, i first saw posted on hossam's 3arabawy. i think it's easily the best recorded version of this song...
blowin' in the wind : sam cooke
ps: ever seen sam cooke cha-cha with jackie wilson? terribly cute.
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