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To Love Somebody [Remastered]

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To Love Somebody Nina Simone CD
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  • Artist: Nina Simone
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2002, 2004, 2005
  • UPC: 4988017621561
  • Item Number: MSI762156
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • 1. Suzanne
  • 2. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
  • 3. Revolution, Pt. 1
  • 4. Revolution, Pt. 2
  • 5. To Love Somebody
  • 6. I Shall Be Released
  • 7. I Can't See Nobody
  • 8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
  • 9. Times They Are A-Changin'
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To Love Somebody [Remastered] by Nina Simone on CD


No slouch as a songwriter herself, Nina Simone ably picked a variety of compositional classics from the new rock era for her 1969 LP To Love Somebody. Opening with a beautiful, introspective version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," Simone shows an obvious affinity for social statements with the Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" and a trio of Dylan standards: "I Shall Be Released," "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," plus a dramatic, meditative "The Times They Are A-Changin'." The title track, originally a 1967 hit for the Bee Gees and one year later for the Sweet Inspirations, suffers slightly from a weak, commercial-slanted arrangement, but her lone original, the two-part "Revolution," is a great blend of blues-rock and soul testifying. Among a rut of jazz vocalists making the worst of a bad situation during the late '60s, To Love Somebody, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Nina Simone
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2002, 2004, 2005
  • UPC: 4988017621561
  • Item Number: MSI762156
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • Label: BMG, BMG Japan, BMG/RCA
  • Genre: Jazz, VocalMusic
  • Style: Ballads, Standards, Torch Songs, Vocal Jazz

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  • To Love Somebody Nina Simone CD
To Love Somebody Nina Simone CD