Good Times (Sam Cooke song)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". "Good Times" is a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke, released as single in 1964.

Critical reception

In a retrospective review in 1971, music critic Dave Marsh wrote that "at his very best, Cooke utilized a perfect lyrical sentimentality... listen to 'Good Times' – It might be one o'clock and it might be three/Time don't mean that much to me/Ain't felt this good since I don't know when/And I might not feel this good again/So come on baby, let the good times roll/We gonna stay here til we soothe our soul. That summed up perfectly what rock and roll was about, and still is, in so many ways."[1]

Personnel

Featured musicians are John Ewing (trombone), Edward Hall (drums and percussion), John Pisano (guitar), Clifton White (guitar) and Johnnie Taylor (back-up vocals).

Chart positions

Sam Cooke

The Sam Cooke version of the song hit number one on the Cash Box R&B chart and number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

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Dan Seals version

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Dan Seals' version was a Number One hit on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in mid-1990, and is the second single from his 1990 album On Arrival. His version stayed at number 1 for two weeks, and was his last number 1 hit, as well as his last top 40 hit of his career.[3]

Chart performance

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Year-end charts

Chart (1990) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 32
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 25

Other Cover Versions

Aretha Franklin covered the song for her 1967 album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You.[6] It was described by Rolling Stone as the album's "party starter"[6] and by AllMusic as "on par with the original recording".[7] The Grateful Dead would sometimes open their live shows with the song as well.

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