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Sam Cooke - Scott D. Lipscomb

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Influences on <strong>Sam</strong> <strong>Cooke</strong> (cont.)<br />

● R.H. Harris/ The Soul Stirrers<br />

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<strong>Sam</strong> <strong>Cooke</strong> has called Harris his "major stylistic<br />

influence."<br />

● Bob Dylan<br />

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After hearing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind",<br />

<strong>Sam</strong> <strong>Cooke</strong> was upset he had not written that<br />

song "before a white man", which led to his<br />

writing of "A Change is Gonna Come". [10]<br />

Bob Dylan<br />

R.H. Harris

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