Nina Simone - Sinnerman/I Ain't got no, I Got Life

Nina Simone - Sinnerman/I Ain't got no, I Got Life

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NINA SIMONE - Sinnerman (1965)

Did you watch the 2 part series over the festivities about the Great Train Robbery. I recorded it and watched it a couple of days ago. It was rather good. The first part was in the perspective of the Gang and part two was about the lead detective and how he eventually managed to arrest all the participants. Not a paticulary nice guy and it had me rooting for the Robbers.

Bruce Reynolds was the main man and the brains behind the operation. Ronnie Biggs was incredibly, just a small part player and was lucky (or unlucky) to be apart of it at all.  The gang were really quite amateurish and succeeded with a lot of luck. There were too many people in the gang and it was really doomed as soon as they did the job. If you get the chance it is certainly worth a watch.

The sound track was exceptional and the highlight was Nina Simone's version of Sinnerman which runs throughout both episodes.

What a track, but you have got to listen to the whole version. I believe it was also used in the film The Thomas Crown Affair.

For good measure take a look at this fabulous video below I found of Nina in London 1968 with her classic from Hair. 

If you like that, check out this Dylan Cover of Nina's chilling, intense, claustraphobic take on  Ballad of Hollis Brown.  It will leave you shell shocked and breathless.

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DYLAN COVERS #90 Lisa Hannigan/Nina Simone - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

DYLAN COVERS #90 Lisa Hannigan/Nina Simone - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

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I'm Lisa Hannigan and i'm lost in the rain

 

LISA HANNIGAN - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (2008)

This is just fabulous song, it is Dylan at his street poetry best. It is just cool personified. Both these covers are truly magnificent. The Nina Simone's version is one of my favourites, it is a slowed down and world weary. I did not think it could be improved but this version by Lisa Hannigan, clearly influenced by Nina is not to shabby either. It was a joy to hear it.

The Lisa Hannigan take was recorded in Dick Macs, Dingle Pub in County Kerry, S.W. Ireland,. on 16th June 2008. The Nina Simone version was first released on her To Love Somebody album in 1969. It can still be found on various Best Of's, and rightly so.

 

NINA SIMONE - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues(1969)

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WEDNESDAY CLUB - The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody

WEDNESDAY CLUB - The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody

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Its MIDWEEK, we have had a Tragedy, come to WEDNESDAY CLUB and rejoice in a fabulous track by the brilliant Bee Gees.

Theres a Light

THE BEE GEES - To Love Somebody(1967)

If you are a child of the sixties then the Bee Gees will be part of at least 40 years of your life. I first heard 'New York Mining Disaster' and I was hooked. Within the next few years they had knocked out many other memorable songs, 'Massachusetts' is one of many classics. They were always there.

Then the seventie's, I was abroad somewhere and all I heard was 'Jive Talking' it was fabulous, the birth of Disco as we know it. If you were around at the time, 'Saturday night Fever' was a film you had to see and the Sound track is of course essential, everyboy has it. I got a copy from a guy at work for a quid. But it is worth a lot more than that, it is a soundtrack of a time an era. (but we also  loved the sub culture).

I bought 'How Deep is Your Love' for my Wife as a little pressie.

The track I selected 'To Love Sombody'is one of my favourite tracks of all time. It was 'a first love' the sixties, we did not know any better in theses days.

It has been covered brilliantly by Nina Simone and also by James Carr, fabulous stuff'.

In the eighties they gave us 'You Win Again' another great tune.

I remember coming back from living in Saudi Arabia in the early nineties, all I heard in the radio was 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' it sticks vividly in the memory. To me another great song.

Four decades and they were still knocking them out.

They were a sountrack to anybodies life. They certainly were for mine.

To me the Beauty of the Bee Gees is, that I liked them, everybody else liked them, my dead granny liked them and so did Jacko my Parrot. Not many artist or groups had that universal appeal. Maybe the Beatles thats all.

Robin Gibb, R.I.P. One of the true greats, And from what you read, a down to earth good guy.

'Theres a light
a certain kind of light
That never shone on me'

You don't know what it's like?

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DYLAN COVER #25 - Nina Simone - Ballad of Hollis Brown

DYLAN COVER #25 - Nina Simone - Ballad of Hollis Brown

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NINA SIMONE - Ballad of Hollis Brown

NINA SIMONE - Just like Tom Thumb's Blues

Oh my! When I saw the video for Hollis Brown, it just knocked me into complete silence. I was totaly mesmerised and was transfixed to that little sceen. What an amazing performace it is! It is just as if she is living and breathing every last syllable of the song. The tension in the song just builds and builds, you know something bad is going to happen. At the end Nina, like me, looks as if she is breathless. Totally stunning.

I have always loved Nina's interpretations of Dylan songs and my favourite must be 'Just like Tom Thumb's Blues'. It is a slowed down version and has a sad feel to it. If you have not heard it before then you are in for a treat, 'and its Easter time too'.

NINA SIMONE - Ballad of Hollis Brown(Live)

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BREAKUP # 1 - Nina Simone - 'Do What You Gotta Do'

BREAKUP # 1 - Nina Simone - 'Do What You Gotta Do'

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Nina Simone - 'Do What You Gotta Do'

We have all got out breakup songs but the first time I heard this, I knew I had to break up. Because this must be what it would be like, this is sheer pain and resignation...similar to Ray Charles ..'I cant stop loving You', That girl must have done the dirty and probably with his best friend but he still loves her (for ever)...'get a life mate'! We are stronger now but that pain still jags deep...'I loved you better than you own kin' ..'It's my own fault what happes to my heart.'....wheeUhh!

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