\u2018Sam Cooke<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s change from gospel to secular music yielded a outstanding 20 songs that made the R&B Top 10, six of them No. 1s, in lower than seven years. On September 16, 1964, he was releasing the follow-up to the most recent of these chart-toppers, \u201cGood Times,\u201d which like a lot of his 45s, had successful B-side in \u201cTennessee Waltz.\u201d No one may have guessed that the brand new single can be the final of his lifetime.<\/p>\n The high facet of the brand new launch was the swinging \u201cThat\u2019s Where It\u2019s At,\u201d penned by the nice singer himself with common co-writer J.W. Alexander. Cooke had recorded it a yr earlier at RCA Studio in Los Angeles, and it was launched on RCA Victor with the B-side \u201cCousin Of Mine.\u201d The pairing once more gave him a double chart presence.<\/p>\n Both sides of the one turned Top 10 R&B hits, respectively reaching No.6 and No.8. \u201cThat\u2019s Where It\u2019s At\u201d didn\u2019t make a lot headway on the pop chart, reaching solely No.93, however \u201cCousin Of Mine\u201d managed a Top 40 rating, at No.31. Yet it was \u201cThat\u2019s Where It\u2019s At\u201d that went on to develop into the better-known staple of Cooke\u2019s repertoire, helped partially by later covers by mates and collaborators equivalent to Lou Rawls and Bobby Womack, amongst many others.<\/p>\n Listen to the Greatest Soul 45s<\/a> playlist.<\/strong><\/p>\n Cooke\u2019s demise on the age of simply 33, the next December, made this the final time he would see his identify on the charts. But in January 1965, yet one more double-sided hit supplied one among his most interesting hours<\/strong><\/a>, sadly posthumously, when \u201cShake\u201d was accompanied by the era-defining \u201cA Change Is Gonna Come.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s Where It\u2019s At\u201d went on to draw covers by such fellow soul males as Johnnie Taylor, in 1968 and Lou Rawls with Ray Charles<\/a>,<\/strong> in 1989. Van Morrison lower it as a part of a medley with \u201cSo Quiet In Here\u201d in 1994.<\/p>\n