To Love Somebody (Reissue) (Vinyl LP)

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 Aint Got No-I Got Life. Also I Cant See Nobody is a song by the Bee Gees. Revolution (parts 1 & 2) was Simones third subsequent single released in the UK, after Aint 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 (Dont you know its gonna be - all right) and structure, most of the lyrics differ.

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 Cohens 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 Thumbs Blues, plus a dramatic, meditative The Times They Are A-Changin.

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