Just Like A Woman: Nina Simone Sings Classic Songs Of The '60s
Nina Simone
Producer: Harold Wheeler, Nina Simone, Stroud Productions And Enterprises,Inc., Joe Rene, Nat Shapiro, Danny Davis, Creed Taylor, Richard Seidel
Legacy Recordings, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 82876851742
EAN: 0828768517420
UPC: 828768517420
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Personnel: Nina Simone (piano); Jim Madison (drums); Gina Rothchild (vocals); Henry Young, David Spinoza, Emile Latimer, Eric Gale, Al Schackman, Rudy Stevenson, Stuart Scharf, Tom Smith, Richie Resnicoff (guitar); Barry Finclair, Marvin Morgenstern, Herbert Sorkin, Harry Glickman, Harry Lookofksy, Charles Libove, David Nadien, Richard Sortomme, Max Ellen (violin); Lamar Alsop, Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi (viola); Jonathan Arramowitz, Alan Schulman, Charles McCracken (cello); Buddy Lucas (harmonica); Daviv Matthews (electric piano); Ernest Hayes, Sam Waymon, Samuel Waymon, Weldon Irvine (organ); Homer Mensch, Charles Israels, Gary King, Gene Perla, Gene Taylor, John Beal, John B Williams, Bob Bushnell (bass guitar); Buck Clarke, Don Alias, Bernard Purdie (drums); Emedin Rivera (conga drum); Essien K. Nkrumah, Nadi Qamar, Nicky Marrero (percussion); Virdia Crawford, Doris Willingham (background vocals).
During her late-1960s and early-'70s tenure at RCA Records, Nina Simone sang a number of then-current pop covers in her inimitable piano-and-voice style. This 14-track anthology gathers many of the best, including versions of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" and "In the Morning" and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" that rank among the finest takes on those oft-covered tunes. Others include Simone's version of familiar folk songs popularized by pop acts, including "House of the Rising Sun" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone was a great pianist, a riveting vocalist, and an uncompromising personality. Her sociopolitical consciousness and eclecticism set her apart from the pack. Her interpretations of soul, jazz, blues, and standards are both striking and unique; not for nothing do her fans refer to her as "the Goddess." She established her jazz credentials with an emotive interpretation of George Gershwin 's 'I Loves You Porgy' in 1959. Her influential '60s work included "Forbidden Fruit" and "I Put A Spell On You." One of her singles, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," later became a worldwide hit for the Animals. In later years, she recorded less frequently, but in 1987, while in self-imposed exile in France, she had a fluke hit after her '50s version of "My Baby Just Cares For Me," was resurrected in a TV commercial. Simone died in 2003 at her home in France at age 70.
