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Music CD - Nina Simone: Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone
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Music CD: Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone
Artist: Nina Simone
List Price: $21.99
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Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
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1. Feeling Good
2. My Baby Just Cares for Me
3. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
4. Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)
5. Take Me to the Water
6. I Put a Spell on You
7. Don't Explain
8. Mississippi Goddam
9. Don't Smoke in Bed
10. I Loves You, Porgy
11. Work Song
12. Love Me or Leave Me
13. Strange Fruit
14. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
15. I'm Going Back Home
16. Other Woman
17. Sinner Man
18. Mood Indigo
19. I'm Gonna Leave You
20. See Line Women
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731452274724
Format: Import
Label: Polygram Int'l
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polygram Int'l
Release Date: 2004-03-29
Studio: Polygram Int'l
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Summary: Nina #1
Comment: I needed a collection of Nina Simone and after careful thinking and looking at the selection on Amazon I chose this one. And I have been very pleased.
My first demand was to get "Feeling good" and here it is. Wonderful, sensual, unforgettable. I was also curious about "Mississippi goddamn", which I've never heard on Finnish radio but saw a bit in a documentary about soul. It's a compelling performance, starts so harmlessly, tongue-in-cheek and builds up to a description of racism and plea for liberty - which inspired Sam Cooke to create his "A change is gonna come".
Nina Simone was a marvellous pianist and a great voice, that had more than one side. It's interesting to hear the less heard version of "My baby just cares for me" and then "Don't let me be missunderstood". Her "Ne me quitte pas" is a pretty good cover of Brel's original, which is saying a lot. I hate Brel covers.
The collection is quite a good one, showing more than one side of Simone's personality: the sexy, the bold, the jazzy, the humorous... If there are better collections, I haven't seen them, and I've looked.
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Summary: feeling good the very best of nina simone
Comment: nice love this voice, love her passion, and skill. buy this and any others of hers. you will never be disapointed. A voice that stands apart no cookie cutter top 40 crap here. She is a legend.
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Summary: Pure Talent
Comment: There is none to compare to the sheer & pure God given talent of Nina Simone. This CD is simply perfection! Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul and well deserved, and Nina Simone is the Queen of all.
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Summary: blues/jazz
Comment: vintage nina, some very good songs mixed with some not so good songs, tried to cram too many songs in one cd
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Summary: World Class Music from a World Class Talent
Comment:
The great author James Baldwin once stated that "the artist has always been a disturber of the peace in some way." When we hear Nina Simone sing with composed outrage such songs as "Mississippi Goddam," and "Work Song," in protest against the overt racism practiced during the 1960s in the southern U.S., we know that hers was indeed a politically charged consciousness. The singer's recording of "Mississippi Goddam" was so controversial when first released that Simone would come to attribute the decline of her career in the U.S., and her relocation to France, to the fallout that followed. However, the 20 songs gathered here on FEELING GOOD, THE VERY BEST OF NINA SIMONE, demonstrate that the greater range of her musical talents went far beyond social or political protest.
Trained as a classical pianist at the famed Juilliard School of Music, Simone was an extraordinary interpreter of song lyrics as well as of musical genres. In the title track of this CD, she draws listeners into an inspired celebration of life with a song that dozens of artists are now covering in 2007 (please note review of Randy Crawford's "Feeling Good.") She can croon seductively and vulnerably in songs like "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," "Ne Me Quitte Pas," and "I Put a Spell on You." And yet she can also go straight to church on the gospel presentations "Take Me to the Water" and "I'm Going Back Home." Talent of such amazing caliber doesn't pop up every decade. This generous sampling of Simone's genius makes one very glad she came along and gave the world as much as she could when she did.
By Author-Poet Aberjhani
Author of I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
And Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Fantastic collection from Universal featuring 20 of her most memorable tunes. Highlights include, 'I Put A Spell On You', 'See Line Woman', 'My Baby Just Cares For Me', 'Feeling Good', 'I Love You Porgy' and many more. Polygram International/Universal. 1994.
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