Qualification to The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians is they must have a minimum of three songs which would make me turn up the radio if they came on. Sam Cooke
Qualifying Songs: Nothing Can Change My Love For You, Wonderful World, Summertime
Back in the mid 80s Levi's 501 made a run of commercials with a 1960's theme and it was from those i was introduced to Sam Cooke and the glorious 'Wonderful World' which on the strength of the commercial, re-entered the UK charts at number 2.
I then got a Sam Cooke's greatest hits album and wondered why i had never come across him before. 'Wonderful World' is a perfect 60s song and just right for flogging stonewashed jeans.
'Summertime' is among the most covered songs in the history of music, the Cooke version is by far the best i have ever heard, the lethargic snare drum and guitar sending your mind to a hazy summer day, on a row-boat on a still river with your hand trailing lazily in the water.
'Nothing Can Change My Love For You' is lyrically faultless, the sort of end of the night slow song when you and your partner hold each other tight and move around in slow circles while the lights come on and the bar staff go around collecting the empty glasses.
He sang many gospel type songs which i don't much care for and it is better to gloss over his death but it it hadn't been for a jean advert in the 1980s i would never had discovered him or a kindred soul who also doesn't know much about trigonometry or algebra.
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