To Love Somebody | ||||
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Studio album by Nina Simone | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | 1967–69 | |||
Studio | RCA Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz, blues, pop, folk | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Producer | Stroud Productions (Andrew Stroud), Danny Davis | |||
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To Love Somebody is an album by Jazz singer-songwriter/pianist Nina Simone. It was released as quickly as possible to prolong the unexpected success of 'Nuff Said! The 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".
I thought it was interesting that Nina Simone did a sort of answer to “Revolution.” That was very good–it was sort of like “Revolution,” but not quite. That I sort of enjoyed, somebody who reacted immediately to what I had said.
It is actually one song, but because of an unknown reason chopped in two by a two-second silence. "Revolution" didn't do well in the UK charts, and only had a mild success in the United States R&B charts. Simone didn't expect this lack of success and said to Sylvia Hampton, author of the biography Break Down and Let It All Out about this:
(…) I don't get it. It's about a revolution, man: not just colour, but everything! It's about barriers being broken down, and they sure as hell need getting rid of. (…) We need a revolution to sort it all out and get back to God. You know how lost we are, man – it's sad.