sam cooke

[Norah]

So good.

[McParadigm]

Been playing Night Beat all week long.

[Alex]

bit on the opie side for me.

hey what does this mean

[narr]

I fucking love Sam Cooke.

[Norah]

Well ain't that good news.

[Mine]

sam's music offers that kind of desperation you can only get from a guy who drunkenly assaulted a hotel manager and was killed in what was ruled a justifiable homicide

*50 years ago today to be precise

The older i get the closest Same Cooke is to my idea of the perfect singer. I specifically appreciate how he managed to go trough pretty much every genre that was around at that time without employing genre specific ticks/virtuosism and yet his performances never sound bland.

Everybody and their cousin covered A Change Is Gonna Come yet his version remains the best and by far. It has a certain timeless quality about. I think it's in good part because all of the emotional charge that performance possesses is in subtleties i couldn't even point out. Of course most of the singer who covered it embellished it with exaggerated use of melisma and the song suffered for it even more than one would expect.
I'm curious how the live version he did on Johnny Carson was.

[Alex]

bit on the opie side for me.

hey what does this mean

i'm still waiting for an answer to this, preferably with some supporting details. in other words: i ask to be paid, and for my papers to be stacked, in an edificatory sense.

[Simple Torture]

what song, ST?

"Nothing Can Change This Love."

that song is as romantic as all hell

Great bump! This is Saturday.

[McParadigm]

Had the Harlem Square Club live album in my ears while I rode the bus today. Played it again when I got to work.

Every now and again, the McParadigm account experiences pure and unrepentant joy.

[Jorge]

Every now and again, the McParadigm account experiences pure and unrepentant joy.

[Mine]

[McParadigm]

Every now and again, the McParadigm account experiences pure and unrepentant joy.

[spike]

Had the Harlem Square Club live album in my ears while I rode the bus today. Played it again when I got to work.

Every now and again, the McParadigm account experiences pure and unrepentant joy.

that one is so good. i'm gonna have to dig it up now.

[Simple Torture]

Wedding is today, soon-wife just sent me this:

[Kevin Davis]

Congratulations!

When you return to this thread in a decade and find yourself pondering which Sam Cooke song best sums up your marriage to that point, I hope the song that comes to mind is "Good Times" and not "Chain Gang" (I assume you have already ruled out "Only Sixteen"). Have a great day!

[Kevin Davis]

bit on the opie side for me.

hey what does this mean

i'm still waiting for an answer to this, preferably with some supporting details. in other words: i ask to be paid, and for my papers to be stacked, in an edificatory sense.

I would surmise "Opie" refers to Ron Howard's character on "The Andy Griffith Show," the red-headed, freckle-faced all-American boy that could be seen as a symbol for the imagined, squeaky clean version of 1950s suburban America frequently depicted in sitcoms of the era, where women in perfectly pressed plaid dresses spend all day baking various pies and casseroles, counting down the hours until the joyous moment when father dearest pops his head through the door and announces "Honey, I'm home!" and proceeds to explain that dinner smells wonderful. I think the reference suggests that this is the sort of music that that couple's offspring might listen to whilst making hanky-panky at some sort of high school dance or ice cream social.

That or Opie is one of those weird Bandcamp bands that SNC listens to.

[McParadigm]

Coming up on six months since I put Sam, Nina, and Thn Lizzy on my iPhone, and ditched the rest.

Nowhere near feeling the need to address that.

[evenslow]

Anything with Lou fucking Rawls singing backup is good enough for me.

[bart]

We all enjoy African American music here at Red Mosquito.

[Simple Torture]

We all enjoy African American music here at Red Mosquito.

Pft #AllMusicMatters