Description

  • 180 gram audiophile vinyl
  • 1969 album featuring "Suzanne", "Turn! Turn! Turn!” & "Revolution (Part 1 & 2)"

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 album title is taken from the Bee Gees song "To Love Somebody". Her cover of the song became her second British hit single after "Ain't Got No-I Got Life". Also "I Can't See Nobody" is a song by the Bee Gees. "Revolution" (parts 1 & 2) was Simone's third subsequent single released in the UK, after "Ain't Got No-I Got Life" and "To Love Somebody" both became hits. The song was released around the time of the same titled song by The Beatles and, although it has a similar hook ("Don't you know it's gonna be - all right") and structure, most of the lyrics differ.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Suzanne04:16
  • 2.Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)03:37
  • 3.Revolution (Part I)02:48
  • 4.Revolution (Part II)01:48
  • 5.To Love Somebody02:38

B

  • 1.I Shall Be Released04:00
  • 2.I Can't See Nobody03:06
  • 3.Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues04:48
  • 4.The Times They Are A Changin'05:59

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