SONG BY SAM COOKE, PERFORMED BY HUNTER, JOSH RADIN AND THE SCARY POCKETS Hunter joined forces with friend Josh Radin to perform a Sam Cooke tune with one of Hunter's favorite bands, The Scary Pockets. 'AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH' ...
Cooke’s 'A Change Is Gonna Come' Was Released Posthumously And Became A Civil Rights Anthem Cooke began his careeras a gospel singerbefore he became involved with pop music. Until he wrote "A Change Is Gonna Come," he often kept social politics out of his songs. As he became more invo...
the song quickly began puncturing hearts and became the #1 Most Added at UAC Radio, with 60+ stations added on impact. Two weeks later, “Lie To Me†had risen to #3 on the Mediabase Urban AC chart. The single was #1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Songs Chart for...
” he says. The two began selecting songs for her to cover on the album, and ended up with everything from R&B classics like Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” to the wistful folk
in 2008. That mix of mostly orignals and covers of songs by The Beatles and Stevie Wonder earned him a Grammy nomination in the best R&B traditional vocal category for his cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” putting him alongside such heavy-hitters as Al Green, Rap...
"I really love to sing. Growing up I was always playing piano and singing along with records. Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye." Also, after years of studying and playing jazz, Dosik says, "I felt a bit scarred by the context in which live jazz is played these days. There can...
I was working with Mac Miller—rest in peace—I was working onSwimming. One of the songs that I had, we made it, and it was really beautiful. I was kind of removed from the process, so one day the song was on the album, and the next day it wasn’t on the album. He was work...
Sometimes I'll look back at songs and I can't believe that was my way of thinking, or I can't believe I was so emotional back then. I think it's such a beautiful thing that I'm going to look back on in 30 years and see how much I evolved as a person. This outlet for me ...
They got their break when Zappa signed them to his independent label for their first album in 1969. The Persuasions performed with everyone from Liza Minnelli to Joni Mitchell to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and covered the songs of Motown, Sam Cooke and Paul Simon. ...
Teaser and the Firecat, with Stevens’ colorful and whimsical artwork on the cover, was released on Oct. 1, 1971, and eventually sold more than three million copies. His mid-’70s follow-up albums did nearly as well, with “Oh Very Young” and his version of Sam Cooke’s “Another Sat...