A while later, Spike Lee put a version of it in the souindtrack for Malcolm X.

And a while later, Rob Mathis' band played behind Betty LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi on it.

I heard the latter doing it on NPR while I was driving to the airport for my flight to work, part of the pre-inaugural activities at the Lincoln Memorial.

It was as close to a transcendent moment as any I'll have in my lifetime, and I felt sorrow for all the poor cousins of Rush and Ann and Sean who post here. They have known victories, and will undoubtedly know future victories.

But that's what they'll have to be satisfied with.

Dave,I just regret William Faulkner is not here to savor every moment..

heh heh heh, fpl.

I knew if I posted anything about a Sam Cooke single, you'd be the one to reply to the post.

You're kind of a mixed bag - you know what end is up, but it's like you're scared to cut all of the ropes that bind you to your inherited belief systems.

As Zorba told the Boss, "A man must have a little madness - otherwise, he will never cut the ropes and be free."

I'm no LBJ or Hubert humphrey and I never started a great society that has cost us 40 trillion.I did like Sam Cooke even Harry Belafonte,"I'm Just A Country Boy."

Poor Mr Bill died with wages at 2 dollars an hour.

I'll let my son Scott carry the unification torch.I'll stick with great great grandpa who died at shiloh and owned not a single slave.

I'm off on Friday's (working 4 10's) - post when you'll be in Huntsville on a Friday and I'll drive down to have lunch with you and Scott.

Meanwhile, I'm surprised Obama didn't appoint James Hansen to take Griffin's place - sounds like it would have been a natural for Rahm-at-the-Top to have suggested.

If Griffin is a republican he is toast anyway.We had snow down here that broke my live oak limbs after katrina and gustov left them intact.Overpopulation is the problem but how do you correct that?

sterilization?haa..

Scott would love to find a job in mass spectroscopy.Keep your eyes open and let me know.He is doing more pure research than he was but technology is changing daily.

I'll let you know when I head for Huntsville.I expect it will be around easter.

That's funny - my Mom's best friend's husband - Jim Anderson - "fixed" mass spectrometers for a living. He was never home - went from one weird-ass country to the next, wherever they had one of them things. Don't think that's what your boy has in mind - sounds like he enjoys being a Daddy too much.

I'm sure he enjoys his work now that his handling of personel has decreased and his resident physicist title is back again.I know he had been looking at jobs at research park,NC..lots of competition in his field..

Yes he loves his children.His son is a cool cat.Reminds me of his dad in 1970..