What do you do when two of your favourite singers both give great performances of the same song? You don’t choose.
Nothing Can Change This Love was written by Sam Cooke, and this is his first unreleased version from February 15, 1962.
He re-recorded it in a different (better) arrangement in August 23, 1962, and it was released as a single on September 11, 1962. It reached No 12 in America.
This is a live performance (sound only).
Otis Redding recorded it for his 1965 album The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads.
Sam Cooke had one of the greatest voices but I never liked Otis Redding – too much grunting and sweating.
I make an exception for Otis’s early single “Shout Bama Lama”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2NyEBmrWCU
It was covered by one of my favourite modern groups, the Detroit Cobras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3XOoO-y2rw