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Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (1958)
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2013
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Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Born in North Carolina, the sixth child of a preacher, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Simone became fully convinced this rejection had been entirely due to her race, a statement that has been a matter of controversy. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed an honorary degree on Simone.
To make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to "Nina Simone". The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music" or "cocktail piano" at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist.
Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".
Simone's musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.
To fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano, which increased her weekly income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone". "Nina" (from niña, meaning "little girl" in Spanish), and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the movie Casque d'Or. Knowing her mother would not approve of playing the "Devil's Music", she used her new stage name to remain undetected. Simone's mixture of jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.
In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage. Playing in small clubs in the same year, she recorded George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only Billboard top 20 success in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue soon followed on Bethlehem Records. Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (notably for the 1980s re-release of My Baby Just Cares for Me) and never benefited financially from the album's sales because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000.
After the success of Little Girl Blue, Simone signed a contract with Colpix Records and recorded a multitude of studio and live albums. Colpix relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them. After the release of her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall, Simone became a favorite performer in Greenwich Village. By this time, Simone performed pop music only to make money to continue her classical music studies and was indifferent about having a recording contract. She kept this attitude toward the record industry for most of her career.
Simone married a New York police detective, Andrew Stroud, in 1961. He later became her manager and the father of her daughter Lisa, but he abused Simone psychologically and physically.
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This recording is 66 years old, yet is sounds as new as the day it was recorded.
In that year I was born on 9 May🥰
The incredible Miss Nina Simone!!❤❤❤
Who the hell would downvote this classic? 😏👌🏽
Fans of Drake.
What a delight like listening to the greats
The best❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Brilliant ❤️
This interpretation is what is meant when people say "a classic." A template that has, and will continue to, inspire vocalists everywhere.
Great rendition of this song by Nina.
This was played during my student days at thé Courtauld Institute of art when there was a party. I did not know this song previously.
❤super
nice swing
love love love this!
Love her!
super class, grandios
Along *"No More doggin" by Roscoe Gordon* this Nina's Blues song Is a antecedent of *SKÁ "off-beat"* (listen the piano).
It's sublime 👌🏽
Great song
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this is the 5th version of this song on youtube that ISN'T the right version? its different than the version i have. what's the deal? where's my version?
I have the version I think you are talking about. I ripped it years ago when uToob just started. It seems that that subtle change in the arrangement has gotten lost in translation. I noticed also that the vocals here are hard-panned to the the left. A common practice in the 50's and 60's when stereo recordings were a new invention. In contemporary recording it is generally realized that panning the voice one extreme side loses a bit of dynamic in the mix, and this would rarely be done today except certain effects. I don't remember if my version is hard-panned left or not. But i'm rippng this version now because it's such a high-quality compression for some reason. I'm almost temped to even out the stereo mix in my studio here! // Thanks for you comment of two years past!
Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
@@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole... i appreciate the info but, it took some doing, but i finally found "my" version. it was on a cd series called "compact jazz: nina simone." i guess it was recorded live at vine st. bar & grill in 1987, released in 1989. when i first discovered nina i didn't know she'd been singing and recording for over 20 years. and i didn't know there was a studio version of the song.
after comparing both versions i like the live version better. her vocal inflections on certain words seem better suited. but i probably wouldn't think so if i'd heard the studio version first. who knows? familiarity has such influence over our tastes and preferences. thanks for the response to my comment.
Covered this song yesterday czcams.com/video/IleDl1WIKsc/video.htmlfeature=shared 😊😊
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