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I Put a Spell On You

Nina Simone

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Album Review

One of her most pop-oriented albums, but also one of her best and most consistent. Most of the songs feature dramatic, swinging large-band orchestration, with the accent on the brass and strings. Simone didn't write any of the material, turning to popular European songsmiths Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, and Anthony Newley, as well as her husband, Andy Stroud, and her guitarist, Rudy Stevenson, for bluesier fare. Really fine tunes and interpretations, on which Simone gives an edge to the potentially fey pop songs, taking a sudden (but not uncharacteristic) break for a straight jazz instrumental with "Blues on Purpose." The title track, a jazzy string ballad version of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic, gave the Beatles the inspiration for the phrasing on the bridge of "Michelle." This LP has been combined with the 1964 In Concert, Rovi

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put a spell on you

i just discovered this album and was completely spellbound by the beauty of this collection. Nina Simone is as special as Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. This album is a treasure. Like a great bottle of wine; age has enhanced its richness.

Seductively haunting

Nina Simone is one of my favorite singers. She has an amazing voice that touches my soul and I feel like singing them myself and doing a sexy little dance while I sing them. If you haven't heard her "I put a spell on you" or "Feeling Good" then you don't know what you're missing!

Agreed

To the above post... This album has great versions of both Feeling good, and her version of Ne Me Quitte Pas. I've browsed the other tracks and i have all the information i need to hit "buy" which is the button i'll be pusing after "Preview" and "Submit" from this post. :)

Biography

Born: February 21, 1933 in Tryon, NC

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. It's perhaps most accurate to label her as a "soul" singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or Dusty Springfield, Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful qualities to whatever material she interpreted. These...
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