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Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
Nina Simone, who would have been 80 today. It's a hard call but this is the one that sticks most clearly in my memory. Ain't got no .... .
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Message 2
Posted by Rhona D aka Meen Bonkers (U219830) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
Good one, OB.
Here's one of my favourites:
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Message 3
Posted by maggiechow- chained to the railings (U6630370) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
My mum would have been 90 today.
I agree Nina Simone was brilliant. -
Message 4
Posted by NoFrillz (U14455049) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
It is a hard call, she had a really special talent.
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Message 5
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
That's brilliant, Rhona. I didn't know it. Was it written before or after Lennon's song, I wonder?
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Message 6
Posted by kentishmannotmanofkent (U14273453) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
Nina Simone, who would have been 80 today. 听
80! - Unbelievable. Time eh, who needs it!!!!
Just you find some more of those clips oldbloke2 -
Message 7
Posted by BasiainBrooklyn (U505001) on Thursday, 21st February 2013
I listened to the 6 Music documentary on her last night, narrated by her daughter. Lots of "mummy", very odd, anyway...what a cantakerous old broad she was, tsk, not showing up like that. Who did she think she was, Whitney?
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Message 8
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
One of those great Ameicans who are too loved to be denied but have never really been fully acknowledged. Lean Horne and Eartha Kitt were two other such ladies. Aretha Franklin stood bail for Angela Davis, IIRC.
PS I watched theLennon New York dvd again recently. Bob Gruen was in fine fettle as usual. Just telling it like it is in his own modest engaging way. Verbal version of his photography in a way - even if he did have problems focussing his camera!. -
Message 9
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Oops! She was quite lean but her name was Lena.
That sounds like the first line from a verse from the Good Ship Venus, dunnit? -
Message 10
Posted by Elnora Cornstalk (U5646495) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
I'm sorry, maggie. Hard day for you. x
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Message 11
Posted by The final throes of Geek The Amazing Dogboy (U1759005) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Her version of Here Comes The Sun is lovely. I thought that would be a favourite of your, OB!!
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Message 12
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
I've been trying to check her Revolution against John's. As it says below there are simillarities, also in the lyrics. Nina's song also puts me in mind of Tracy Chapman's Talking About Revolution. I wonder if there is any artistic kinship there? In A Hard Day's Write there's no mention of Nina's song and I can't recall one anywhere else - until Rhona p眉osted it I'd never heard of it I must admit. Great song though.
"Revolution" is a 2:53 song by American jazz musician Nina Simone and Weldon Irvine. It was released as a single and also featured on the album To Love Somebody (1969). The single release was split over two sides of a 45 rpm disc and, for an unknown reason, these two edits were also used as separate tracks on the album. The song was released the same years as The Beatles "Revolution" and shares some structural similarities.
"Revolution" didn't do as well as expected and Simone has expressed surprise and disappointment at its lack of success.[1] -
Message 13
Posted by Rhona D aka Meen Bonkers (U219830) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
I've been trying to check her Revolution against John's. As it says below there are simillarities, also in the lyrics. Nina's song also puts me in mind of Tracy Chapman's Talking About Revolution. I wonder if there is any artistic kinship there? In A Hard Day's Write there's no mention of Nina's song and I can't recall one anywhere else - until Rhona p眉osted it I'd never heard of it I must admit. Great song though.
"Revolution" is a 2:53 song by American jazz musician Nina Simone and Weldon Irvine. It was released as a single and also featured on the album To Love Somebody (1969). The single release was split over two sides of a 45 rpm disc and, for an unknown reason, these two edits were also used as separate tracks on the album. The song was released the same years as The Beatles "Revolution" and shares some structural similarities.
"Revolution" didn't do as well as expected and Simone has expressed surprise and disappointment at its lack of success.[1]
听 Hi OB, I was just about to post that excerpt.
I'm truly glad that I was able to introduce you to that track. I must admit that it had never occurred to me for an instant that it would be new to you, so feel more than a wee bit chuffed about that. -
Message 14
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Just taken my daily dose of Medium and checked the thread. Glad I did. I googled John Lennon Nina Simone nd came up with some interesting hits. Too many to cite here.
"John Lennon cited Simone's version of "I Put a Spell on You" as a source of inspiration for the Beatles song "Michelle"."
I'l check that lead in my books (I have one or two) by and about Yoko Ono's formere husband. (Yoko was also 80 last week).
is a quote from this interesting somewhat judgemental site:
I must get hold of her autobiography.
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Message 15
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Sorry to go on Rhona but just came across this quote
"I thought it was interesting that Nina Simone did a锘 sort of answer to 鈥淩evolution.鈥 That was very good鈥搃t was sort of like 鈥淩evolution,鈥 but not quite. That I sort of enjoyed, somebody who reacted immediately to what I had said." -John Lennon, 1971
and I have a pretty good idea of where it came from so it won't be hard to trace. -
Message 16
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Just ordered the only copy of the autobiography available on abebooks.de. The reference to Put a Spell on You and Michelle is in Hard Day's Write, by the way. One or two interesting comparisons of the Nina and John Revolutions knocking about. Hers is certainly tougher than his first version, which he revised from count me out to count me in some years later, after he moved to the US. She also changed (?) "Free your mind instead" to "Clean your brains" (owtte - I think she changes ther words a bit with each performance) which is not as elegant as John's phrase but grittier and in fact more apt. I'll be ordering the relevant CDs too. What have you started Rhona? Talk about putting spells on people ---- .
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Message 17
Posted by Rhona D aka Meen Bonkers (U219830) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Hey OB, I knew you would need something to fill your days with after the End of Days.
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Message 18
Posted by oldbloke2 (U2285767) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
Not End of Days, Rhona, Medium. It's one of those US series that sound daft but it's brilliant. And I already have 3 books on the boil, or at least simmering: the Gissing, a biog of the Carlyle marriage and the robot stories of Isaac Asimov. Not to mention a planned re-read of Hemingway, for which dunlurkin is to blame! Your DVD is scheduled for next week, btw.
Please don't recommend anything else for the time being. LOL
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