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85. A Change Is Gonna Come (Live) - Playing For Change Band
7 months ago
playingforchange.com - This performance demonstrates what happens when some of the musicians from Stand By Me meet and perform for the first time. This song was recorded and filmed live in New Orleans, and features Grandpa Elliot and Clarence Bekker on vocals. Thousands of people witness first hand the soul and conviction of two men who make us all believe a change is going to come.

"A Change Is Gonna Come" appears on the CD/DVD Playing For Change "Songs Around The World" now available at amazon.com!
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  • mela hatchett 7 months ago
    Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Love this!!
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  • Rhonda Dunn 7 months ago
    WOW!!! Brings tears to my eyes!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
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  • Jean Stevens 7 months ago
    Beautiful!!!
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  • JAZZCRUSADER 7 months ago
    ...grandiose!

    Cheers from Germany,

    Ralf Schulz
    aka JAZZCRUSADER
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  • Ginny Forbes 7 months ago
    I've listened to Sam Cooke singing this a million times, and I never thought anyone else should even attempt singing it. I don't like Seal's rendition. However, I got to say, THIS video is about as close to Cooke's version as can be. I enjoyed this very much. Good luck to all . Yeah.....It's been a long time coming...
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  • Kim Horwood 7 months ago
    Beautiful!!! These guys are amazing. I will definitely be buying the CD. And you guys are helping communities, all I have to say is "AMAZING". Thank you.
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  • Steve Mashburn 7 months ago
    What a wonderful, wonderful, job. Truely AMAZING. Brings Joy to the heart and Love to the Soul.
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  • German Monroy 7 months ago
    can't stop listening to it again and again... in the computer and in my mind

    such good song, so well sung
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  • Robert Tice 7 months ago
    Every time I see and hear the woman from Israel sing I get sick to my stomach thinking about that murderous nation and what it has done to the Middle East. 29 dead from one family! The whole extended family herded into one house and then Israel shelled it, killing innocent women, children and elderly! Destruction of homes, intentional attack on over 60 medical centers, 8 U.N. headquarters, and over 25% women and children killed, the largest percentage of any action in history. If there was a God, it would remove Israel from this sorry world and then we'd need much less "change."
  • R. Source 6 months ago
    One woman is not a nation or a government. Following the line of your thinking, you would be sick to your stomach thinking about your responsibility as a human being for the deaths of innocent people everywhere. For example if you were from the USA, you would sicken yourself thinking about all the innocent Iraqis killed by bombs dropped by US warplanes.
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  • Damon Vinyard 7 months ago
    Absolutely amazing! I watched the Stand By Me video three times in a row when I received it and it brought tears to my eyes each time. As a young filmmaker myself with an infatuation for music, this was absolutely brilliant! Your hard work shows and is appreciated!
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  • Frances Prestidge 6 months ago
    I've just heard stand by me and it went right to my guts it has such power and energy it's brilliant
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  • ruth slinger 6 months ago
    you all beatifull.spread always love and hope.thank you.from ruth slinger from Brasil
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  • lina elmek 6 months ago
    To Robert Tice:


    You are wrong. The easiest way is to blame Israeli. They want to live on their land without fear, that some freak will send the rocket to their day care or school.
    Watch yourself and don't judge. Israel will stay because of GOD will.
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  • rebecca geiger 6 months ago
    Listening to this makes me want even more to be a better person. It doesn't matter what other people say in the way of negativity it is about being the change that you want to see.
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  • nath83 6 months ago
    Thanks !!! Wonderful !!!
    In when a tour in France ??....
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  • carol 6 months ago
    I will definitely buy the CD. I love this and the Stand by Me video! OOps. I just woke the baby playing i! carol in Maine
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  • Naomi Bloch 6 months ago
    Beautiful. Thank you.
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  • edwigeleprin 6 months ago
    fantastic
    ED
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  • Love is the Key for everyone! Justice is the Lock.
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  • Luc Ceulemans 6 months ago
    That's a real artist
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  • OneClickFilms, LLC 6 months ago
    Is it possible for us to download this? I would love to keep this vid. Thanks!
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  • Jerome Escobar 6 months ago
    WOW !
    It gave me goosebumps !
    Thanks !
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  • John Labor 5 months ago
    I would like to e-mail "a change is gonna come", great
    version. I did not think anyone could sing it as good as Sam Cooke, but this is as good as it gets. Someone help me or tell me how to e-mail this. Thank you friends, John Labor [Porchdog]
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  • Chet Kamakawiwo'ole 5 months ago
    All Of These Songs Being Sung From "Playing For Change" and Songs From Around The World, Are All Absolutely Beautiful, When I Hear "Chanda Mama, Don't Worry, A Change Is Gonna Come, or Stand By Me, I sort of get
    Gooseflesh or Chickenskin, Keep Up The Good Work,
    Concord You're On A Roll
    (Scottishrites32)
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  • Robert Tice 3 months ago
    I wish I was wrong, but I'm not. No change is coming because we're to darn cowardly to force it. I'm from America, the cowardly killers who rationalized killing 650,000 kids under 6 years old in Iraq using sanctions, where Bill Clinton's SOS said, "...we'll just have to live with it..." when asked about those deaths. As for Israel, they don't have any of "their land", it was all stolen from the rightful owners, the Palestinians. And, if you knew the Bible, you'd know that Israel isn't to come into existence until the savior arrives, and he hasn't showed up yet! The "God's will" crap is just that, crap. They have stolen property and continue to steal. They just evicted more families that were there for the past 500 years in order to give the land to Jews imported from overseas! It's the ONLY nation on earth that announced it intended to eventually evict everyone of another religion. The two most evil nations on Earth are the United States and Israel, mostly because they refuse to take ownership of the evil they do and cause. No change is coming. We elected Obama, a black Bush, better educated, a better speaker, who has continued literally every Bush program and practice. No change is coming because Americans are to damn cowardly to actually vote for good! Better vote for the lesser evil than good. It a God exists, it would wipe both these nations from the earth and save mankind. After all, the U.S. produces 25% of all the pollution on earth. Wipe it out and that almost solve global warming by itself, and without the U.S. and it's weapons and money, Israel would collapse. We give Isreal enough money to actually PAVE the damn country in dollar bills! We pay for universal health care fo them but we can't afford it for ourselves. It's insane and it can't continue...but it will, won't it? Evil endures.
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