Chicago music and the soul of a president (Globama loves Chicago music, and it shows)
Thursday 9th of February 2012 05:34:15 AM
Posted by admin / Under Stax Earspeakers
| Barack Obama loves Chicago music, and it shows: In his speeches, he echoes the ideals hope, tolerance, determination heard in the songs of such local greats as Sam Cooke, the Staple Singers and Curtis Mayfield President-elect Barack Obama paid homage to Chicago soul in his Grant Park acceptance speech. He riffed on Wendell Phillips High graduate Sam Cooke by saying, Its been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, at this defining moment, change has come to America. This clearly expands on Cookes 1963 hit A Change Is Gonna Come. But... |



