Hit Parade: Don’t Know Much About History, Part 2

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In Part 2 of this episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy continues his analysis of the music of Sam Cooke. The Oscar-nominated film One Night in Miami… imagines the conversation between Cooke, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay and Jim Brown the night in 1964 they gathered to celebrate the soon-to-be Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight victory. Malcolm X challenges Sam Cooke to use his amazing voice to help “the struggle.” Little did he know Cooke had already recorded his civil‑rights masterpiece, “A Change Is Gonna Come.” In his too-brief career—seven years as a gospel star, then seven more as a chart-conquering superstar—Sam Cooke took a remarkable journey: from the pathbreaking pop of “You Send Me,” to the wistful R&B of “(What a) Wonderful World,” to the yearning romance of “Bring It on Home to Me,” to—of course—the now-legendary “Change Is Gonna Come.” Meet the man who defined what soul music was and could be. Hit Parade episodes are now split into two parts, released two weeks apart. For the full episode right now, sign up for Slate Plus and you'll also get The Bridge, our Trivia show and bonus deep dive. Click here for more info. Podcast production by Asha Saluja. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.6	Welcome back to Hippory, a podcast of pop chart history from Sleet Magazine about the
1:13.5	hits from Coast to Coast.
1:15.5	I'm Chris Malanfee, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Sleet's Why is this song
1:20.6	number one series on our last episode?
1:24.0	I talked about how sole legend Sam Cook began his career as gospel legend, Sam Cook, and
1:32.0	how he pivoted to secular music.
1:35.2	And in the wake of multiple Oscar nominations for the 2020 film One Night in Miami, which
1:41.8	reimagines numerous aspects of Cook's career, I began a fact check of the film, which compresses
1:49.1	multiple years worth of his accomplishments into early 1964.
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