Nothing Can Change This Love

Written By Sam Cooke    [Abkco Music Ltd. 1962]

Trivia

• Solomon Burke quotes some lines from the song is 'Can't Nobody Love You': "Sam called you cake and ice-cream, he called you cherry pie".

Version 1 - The Regular

Recording Date August 23, 1962 at RCA Hollywood, Studio 1

Produced by Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore

Orchestra Conducted by Rene Hall    (22 piece orchestra)

Musicians:

• Nathan Griffin (organ)
• Israel Baker (violin)
• Robert Barené (violin)
• Edward Beal (piano)
• Samuel Boghossian (viola)
• Joseph Coppin (cello)
• John DeVoogdt (violin)
• Harold Dickterow (violin)
• Elliot Fisher (violin)
• René Hall (guitar)
• Allan Harshman (viola) 
• William Kurasch (violin)
• Leonard Malarsky (violin)
• Gareth Nuttycombe (violin)
• Earl Palmer (drums)
• Isadore Roman (violin) 
• Ralph Schaeffer (violin)
• Frederick Seykora (cello)
• Darrell Terwilliger (violin)

Charts    #2 R&B and #12 pop in 1962

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Singles    

• RCA 8088 b/w Somebody Have Mercy (Sep 11, 1962)   
• RCA 1310 b/w Somebody Have Mercy (UK)    
• RCA 14146 b/w Bring It On Home To Me

Albums

• The Best Of Sam Cooke - New edition, as a bonus track
• Hits!
• The Man And His Music
• The Man Who Invented Soul (Box) 
• Mr. Soul (original album)
• Portrait Of A Legend 
• The Rhythm And The Blues
• All Hits
• The Golden Age of Sam Cooke
• The Best Of (Paradiso)

Version 2 - The Alternate Version

Info: This version starts with a chorus singing "I want you to know, you're my girl"

Recorded at RCA Hollywood, Studio 1 on February 15, 1962

Producers: Hugo & Luigi

Orchestra Conducted by Rene Hall

Albums    The Man Who Invented Soul (Box)

Version 3 - The Live Version

Albums    

• Live At The Harlem Square Club
• The Man Who Invented Soul (box)

lyrics & Chords.

If I go a million miles away
I'd write a letter, each and every day
'Cause honey, nothing,
Nothing can ever change this love I have for you

Make me weep and you can make me cry
See me comin' and you can pass me by
But honey, nothing
nothing can ever change this love I have for you

You're the apple of my eye, you're cherry pie
and oh yeah, you're cake and ice cream
You re sugar and spice and everything nice
You re the girl of my dreams

But if you wanted to leave me and roam
When you get back, I'd just say "Welcome Home"
'cause honey nothing, nothing
can ever change this love I have for you

Covered By

JoJo Benson	Reminiscing in the Jam Zone (1999)
The Coastline Band
Mike Majik Boyd	Tribute To Sam Cooke
Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws	The King of Nerd-A-Bully	Get it at Amazon.com
Nickey De Paola	Uptown Mood (2003)	Get it at Amazon.com
Z.Z. Hill	Down Home Soul of ZZ Hill (1992)
Kela "Ekolu" Keale	Hawaiian Style, Vol. 5
Loving Kind
Gregg Martinez	All the Days	Get it at Amazon.com
Bitty McLean		Get it at Amazon.com
The Merseys		Get it at Amazon.com
Zoot Money
Otis Redding	The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (1965)	Get it at Amazon.com
Jonathan Richman	You Must Ask the Heart (1995)
Sochi	Taking It Back To The Old School (2002)	Get it at Amazon.com
Sulo & Louise Hoffsten	Soul Folks - The Sam Cooke Concerts (1998)	Get it at Amazon.com
The Supremes	We Remember Sam Cooke (1965)
Gregory "MiracG" Washington	Capitulation	Get it at Amazon.com
Jody Williams	Gold Tapes from the Ace Vault (1996)