Various Artists: A Change Is Gonna Come: The Voice Of Black America 1967-73 - COMPACT DISCS

Title: A Change Is Gonna Come: The Voice Of Black America 1967-73
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Kent Records UK
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 029667227025
Genre: Soul/R & B
Release Date: 2007-03-20
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

A companion piece to Kent's two volumes of Vietnam War-related soul, a Change Is Gonna Come is an audio documentation of how it felt to be black and American in the 1960's. 23 exceptional tracks, covering everything from interracial relationships to poverty, hardship to emancipation, from segregation to the rise of the Black Power movement, by leading artists of their generation. Contains many songs that have achieved anthemic status over the past five decades. More than half of the featured tracks have never been on CD prior to this compilation.

Tracks:
1.1 A Change Is Gonna Come - Otis Redding
1.2 Only in America - the Drifters
1.3 Forty Acres and a Mule - Oscar Brown JR
1.4 Blues for Mr Charlie PT 2 - Lou Gossett, Paul Sindab, Joe Lee Wilson ;
1.5 Stay with Your Own Kind - Patrice Holloway
1.6 We're a Winner - the Impressions
1.7 Have You Ever Seen the Blues - Yaphet Kotto
1.8 When Will We Be Paid - the Staple Singers
1.9 I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door I'll Get It
1.10 And Black Is Beautiful - Nickie Lee
1.11 The Ghetto - Homer Banks
1.12 Message from a Black Man - the Spinners
1.13 Oh Lord, Why Lord - Parliament
1.14 We Are Neighbours - the Chi-Lites
1.15 Cryin' in the Streets PTS 1 ; 2 - George Perkins and the Silver Stars
1.16 The Prayer - Ray Scott
1.17 I Was Born Blue - Swamp Dogg
1.18 Run Charlie Run - the Temptations
1.19 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
1.20 Free at Last - Jackie Day
1.21 To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Nina Simone
1.22 George Jackson - JP Robinson
1.23 Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway