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Gin House Blues", Simone re-recorded this song in a more upbeat way on 'Nuff Said! (1968). "Work Song", written by Oscar Brown, Jr and Nat Adderley tells the story of a chain gang. This song also appears on Nina’s Choice (1963), Nina Simone with Strings (1966) and, newly recorded, on High Priestess of Soul (1967).
In 2022, American Songwriter ranked "Feeling Good" number one on their list of the 10 greatest Nina Simone songs, [13] and in 2023, The Guardian ranked the song number four on their list of the 20 greatest Nina Simone songs. [14] An official music video for Simone's version was released on YouTube 56 years after the release of her recording in ...
She is the subject of Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone, a one-woman show first performed in 2016 at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone" [122] —and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
(1930), the song became a signature tune for Eddie Cantor who sang it in the movie. [1] [2] A stylized version of the song by American singer and songwriter Nina Simone, [2] recorded in 1957, was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom after it was used in a 1987 perfume commercial and resulted in a renaissance for Simone. [3]
"Go Limp" is the penultimate track on Nina Simone's 1964 album Nina Simone in Concert, and is an adaptation of a protest song originally written by Alex Comfort during his involvement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. [1] The melody and part of the chorus is taken from the folk ballad "Sweet Betsy from Pike".
American experimental band Xiu Xiu covered "Four Women" on its 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina. The song inspired the 2016 play Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham. In the play, Nina meets the first three women (she is the fourth) at the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and they become the characters in her song.
"Ain't Got No, I Got Life" is a 1968 single by American singer-songwriter Nina Simone, from her album 'Nuff Said. It is a medley of two songs, "Ain't Got No" and "I Got Life", from the musical Hair, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. The combination of the two songs was rewritten by Simone to suit her purpose.
"To Be Young, Gifted and Black" is a song by Nina Simone with lyrics by Weldon Irvine. Simone introduced the song on August 17, 1969, to a crowd of 50,000 at the Harlem Cultural Festival, captured on broadcast video tape and released in 2021 as the documentary film Summer of Soul. [1] [2] Two months later, she recorded the song as part of her ...