Sam Cooke "Blowin' In The Wind" (1964) on TV

Well, Sam Cooke is essentially without equal according to my impoverished intellect. He had a savvy courage in performing this [I've always thought of as corny] song by a well-known and respected Jewish entertainer (Robert Zimmerman), but the background dancing is hopelessly banal and out of place, but some (the Chasidim) hold its better than crying. In 1964, this song had real and timely context, and the Black-Jewish united front that it flowed from must have made the hater-types very unhappy and prompted them to complain about radical content on television.