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Ain't That Good News is the thirteenth and final studio album by American R&B and soul singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released March 1, 1964, on RCA Victor Records, in both mono and stereo, LPM 2899 and LSP 2899. Recording sessions for the album took place at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World Studio in February and December 1963 and January 1964. The cover photo was taken by American photographer Wallace Seawell.

A Change Is Gonna Come" is a song by American recording artist Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi and arranged and conducted by René Hall, the song was the B-side to "Shake".

Sam Cooke began his career with his siblings in a group called the Singing Children when he was six years old. He first became known as lead singer with the Highway QC's when he was a teenager, having joined the group at the age of 14. During this time, Cooke befriended fellow gospel singer and neighbor Lou Rawls, who sang In 1963 Cooke signed a five-year contract for Allen Klein to manage Kags Music and SAR Records and made him his manager.

Ain't That Good News", also known as "Good News", is a song written and performed by soul singer Sam Cooke, released on RCA Records in 1964. The song was recorded in three takes for the 1964 album of the same name and reached number eleven on the pop chart, and number one on the Cashbox Magazine's R&B charts as a single. Cooke performed the song live on American Bandstand on April 4 of the same year. It is a modern adaptation of an older gospel song of the same title.

The last of his studio albums released in his lifetime, Sam Cooke's Ain't That Good News offers a lot of superb material, pointing in several directions that, alas, were to go largely unexplored. The central number is, of course, the earth-shattering "A Change Is Gonna Come," with its soaring gospel sound and the most elaborate production of any song in Cooke's output.

Ain’t That Good News (1964) was the last studio album released before he died. Having recently negotiated a new contract with RCA, Cooke had more control in choosing the music he recorded and which backing musicians to use; this control results in one of his most critically acclaimed albums and signaling a more mature direction. Ain’t That Good News includes a mix of Cooke originals and covers, the most popular of which are Another Saturday Night, Good Times, (Ain’t That) Good News, and A Change Is Gonna Come, an anthem for the civil rights movement  . By the time album closer comes on (a cover of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come ) you have been rebirthed by fire and come to worship at the altar of the Queen of Soul. Wilson Pickett: The Exciting Wilson Pickett.

This 1964 R&B hit written and performed by Sam Cooke is among the most recognizable pop songs associated with the African American Civil Rights Movement. One of Cooke’s inspirations for the song was folk/rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s song Blowin' in the Wind. What have the artists said about the song? This song, recorded decades ago, hasn’t lost any of its power. The marches that took place around the world over the weekend showed how necessary citizen action is to bending history toward justice  . Ain’t That Good News Sam Cooke. 1. (Ain’t That) Good News. 2. Meet Me at Mary’s Place. 4. Rome (Wasn’t Built in a Day). 5. Another Saturday Night.