This is another of my personal top ten Nina Simone song with several different versions. (Also try: From the Little Girl Blue album: My Baby Just Cares for Me, Porgy.)ģ. And you have an example of Simone taking a musical standard and creating her own distinct version of it. Simone is great with blues and love songs. And in this case, instead of any political message, the lyric and the story she tells is personal. You have a great piano solo in the middle of it which clearly displays Simone’s classical piano training.

This song (there are several Simone versions) also shows off a lot of quintessential Nina Simone.

It’s sort of a civil rights song, sort of a folk song, a cover of a song other people have done but which Simone sings in her own, unmistakable way. This song, to me, is all things Simone: there’s sweetness, a call for justice and power, beautiful piano, soft and loud sections showcasing different aspects of Simone’s famed raspy voice. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free. Anyone who likes Nina Simone is likely to find another ten, or twenty, or thirty, just as good without even looking very hard. So here are ten top songs from Nina Simone. But all I can do, coming up with a Top Ten for Nina Simonem is list ten songs I love and think well display different aspects of this famed singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist’s extensive songbook. Simone’s singing was best or her piano playing, or where her arrangements of classic songs were spectacular or when her original compositions were most effective and evocative.

Nina Simone’s top ten songs? How can anyone really rank the top ten (or top whatever number) songs of any great musician with a vast, diverse and long-lived career like Nina Simone’s? Some musicians might be able to tell you ten songs where Ms.

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