Ain't That Good News
by Sam Cooke
- Type: Album
- Released: February 1964
- Label: RCA Victor
- Country: United States
- Length: 33:26
- Community rating: 4.75/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Sam Cooke's final studio album released in his lifetime, 'Ain't That Good News' is defined by its stylistic duality, presenting a side of up-tempo, rock-and-soul numbers before shifting to a second side of lush, deeply soulful ballads. The album's centerpiece is the monumental "A Change Is Gonna Come," an iconic anthem of the Civil Rights Movement that, along with Cooke's sophisticated songwriting and emotionally charged vocal performances throughout, cemented the record's historical and cultural significance.
Genres
Descriptors: soulful, melodic, vocal, rhythmic, harmonies
Tracklist
- (Ain't That) Good News (02:30)
- Meet Me At Mary's Place (02:43)
- Good Times (02:28)
- Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day) (02:34)
- Another Saturday Night (02:41)
- Tennessee Waltz (03:11)
- A Change Is Gonna Come (03:12)
- Falling In Love (02:45)
- Home (When Shadows Fall) (02:31)
- Sittin' In The Sun (03:18)
- There'll Be No Second Time (03:03)
- The Riddle Song (02:30)
Credits
- Sam Cooke - vocals, writer
- Norman Bartold - guitar
- LeRoy Crume - guitar
- Barney Kessel - guitar
- John Pisano - guitar
- Allan Reuss - guitar
- Howard Roberts - guitar
- Clifton White - guitar, writer
- Peter Badie - bass
- Buddy Clark - bass
- Clifford Hils - bass
- Ray Pohlman - bass
- Eddie Tilman - bass
- Joseph Gibbons - banjo
- Harold Battiste - piano, writer
- Ray Johnson - piano
- Lincoln Mayorga - piano
- Hal Blaine - drums
- John Boudreaux - drums
- Edward Hall - drums
- Earl Palmer - drums
- Linwood Mitchell - percussion
- Emil Richards - percussion
- Jewell Grant - saxophone
- William Green - saxophone
- Plas Johnson - saxophone
- Edgar Redmond - saxophone
- Red Tyler - saxophone
- William Hinshaw - french horn
- Israel Baker - violin & viola
- Robert Barene - violin & viola
- Arnold Belnick - violin & viola
- John DeVoogdt - violin & viola
- Harry Hyams - violin & viola
- William Kurasch - violin & viola
- Irving Lipschultz - violin & viola
- Leonard Malarsky - violin & viola
- Alexander Neiman - violin & viola
- Jack Pepper - violin & viola
- Ralph Schaeffer - violin & viola
- Sid Sharp - violin & viola, string section leader
- Darrell Terwilliger - violin & viola
- Tibor Zelig - violin & viola
- Jesse Ehrlich - cello
- Emmet Sargeant - cello
- John Anderson - trumpet
- Melvin Lastie - trumpet
- Milt Bernhart - trombone
- Harry Betts - trombone
- Louis Blackburn - trombone
- Streamline Ewing - trombone
- John Halliburton - trombone
- Ernest Tack - trombone
- David Wells - trombone
- Jimmy Bryant - backing vocals
- Gwenn Johnson - backing vocals
- Carol Lombard - backing vocals
- The Soul Stirrers - backing vocals
- Robert Tebow - backing vocals
- George Tipton - backing vocals