A Change Is Gonna Come

~ Recording by Otis Redding

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul (stereo, original release)Otis ReddingAlbum
  • US1965-09-15
Volt (US, Stax subsiduary)412, S-412, SD-412
1.17A Change Is Gonna Come4:22Otis ReddingThe Otis Redding StoryOtis ReddingAlbum + Compilation
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
  • US1991-06-11
ATCO Records7 80318-2
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
  • XE1992-12-17
ATCO Records7567-80318-1
1.26Change Gonna Come (stereo album version)4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (collector’s edition)Otis ReddingAlbum
  • XW2008-04-21
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)
2.3Change Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (collector’s edition)Otis ReddingAlbum
  • DE2008-04-25
ATCO Records, Rhino (reissue label)8122 79938 9
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:19Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
  • XW2008-07-15
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
  • XW2008-07-15
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint), Rhino (reissue label)
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
  • US2008-07-15
ATCO RecordsR2 80318
2.3Change Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
ATCO Records, Rhino (reissue label)081227951856
3.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOriginal Album SeriesOtis ReddingAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2010-02-23
Rhino (reissue label)8122 79827 4
1.3Change Gonna Come4:19Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (24-Bit / 96.0 kHz)Otis ReddingAlbum
  • US2012-10-20
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)[none]
8.3Change Is Gonna Come4:13Otis ReddingAtlantic Soul LegendsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Music France8122797264
3.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingThe Complete Studio Albums CollectionOtis ReddingAlbum + Compilation
  • US2015-06-03
Rhino (reissue label)
3.3Change Gonna Come4:16Otis ReddingSoul Manifesto: 1964-1970Otis ReddingAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2015-10-30
ATCO Records081227951979
2.3Change Gonna Come4:23Otis ReddingOtis Blue / Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
Analogue ProductionsCAPP 095 SA
1.3Change Gonna Come4:23Otis ReddingOtis Blue / Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum
Analogue ProductionsCAPP 095 SA
1.3A Change Is Gonna Come4:21Otis ReddingOtis Blue: Otis Redding Sings SoulOtis ReddingAlbum20P2-2370

Relationships

recording engineer:Tom Dowd
producer:Jim Stewart (US producer, founder for Stax & Volt Records)
baritone saxophone:Floyd Newman (in 1965-07)
bass guitar:Donald “Duck” Dunn (US bass guitarist, session musician, record producer & songwriter) (in 1965-07)
drums (drum set):Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T & The MGs drummer) (in 1965-07)
guitar:Steve Cropper (in 1965-07)
keyboard:Isaac Hayes (in 1965-07)
Booker T. Jones (in 1965-07)
tenor saxophone:Andrew Love (in 1965-07)
trumpet:Wayne Jackson (trumpet/horn, member of The Mar-Keys and The Memphis Horns) (in 1965-07)
Gene “Bowlegs” Miller (American trumpeter) (in 1965-07)
background vocals:Earl Sims (in 1965-07)
sampled by:Fish by Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon (US rapper, Wu-Tang Clan) & Cappadonna
Looking Through Darkness by Guru (alternative rapper from Boston)
recording of:A Change Is Gonna Come (in 1965-07: cover)

A Change Is Gonna Come

lyricist and composer:Sam Cooke
publisher:ABKCO Music, Inc. (this is a music publisher; for release labels, please use “ABKCO”)
Kags Music Corp.