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Nina Simone: I Put a Spell on You

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Label: Philips Records
Released: 1965.06.15
Time:
 34:21
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): Hal Mooney
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] I Put a Spell on You (Jalacy Hawkins) - 2:34
[2] Tomorrow Is My Turn (Charles Aznavour, Marcel Stellman, Yves Stéphane) - 2:48
[3] Ne me quitte pas (Jacques Brel) - 3:34
[4] Marriage is for Old Folks (Leon Carr, Earl Shuman) - 3:29
[5] July Tree (Irma Jurist, Eve Merriam) - 2:41
[6] Gimme Some (Andy Stroud) - 2:57
[7] Feeling Good (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 2:53
[8] One September Day (Rudy Stevenson) - 2:48
[9] Blues on Purpose [instrumental] (Rudy Stevenson) - 3:16
[10] Beautiful Land (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 1:54
[11] You've Got to Learn (Charles Aznavour, Marcel Stellman) - 2:41
[12] Take Care of Business (Andy Stroud) - 2:03

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Nina Simone - Piano, Vocals on [1-8,10-12]

Rudy Stevenson - Guitar
Hal Mooney - Arranger, Audio Production, Conductor on [1,3-5,7,8,10], Producer
Horace Ott & His Orchestra - Orchestra
Horace Ott - Arranger, Conductor on [2,6,11,12]

Bryan Koniarz - Producer
Ken Druker - Executive Producer
Jeff Willens - Mastering
Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
Hollis King - Art Direction
Kazumi Matsumoto - Series Design
Bernard Gotfryd - Photography
Roger Short - Liner Notes

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Tracks [1-8,10-12]: Recorded January 1965 in New York City.
Track [9]: Recorded 1964 in New York City.


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 album on a CD reissue.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide



I Put a Spell on You is a 1965 album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933–2003) for Philips Records. It features some of Simone's best known songs.

"I Put a Spell on You", a song originally by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. The original version gave the song an ironic theme, but Simone transformed it into a thrilling love song, complete with horns and strings. It had become one of her most well known songs. She used the title for her autobiography I Put A Spell On You (1992). The Beatles drew inspiration from the song for their song "Michelle". "Tomorrow Is My Turn", an English translation of a French song by Charles Aznavour. "Ne me quitte pas", a rendition of the song by Jacques Brel. It became one of her live repertoire standards. "Feeling Good": Simone's version of this Broadway song, which has been covered by many artists including Muse and Michael Bublé. A sample of the song also featured on Mary J. Blige's song "About You" on the album The Breakthrough (2006).

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