Nina Simone - Cotton Eyed Joe (1959)
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Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Born in North Carolina, the sixth child of a preacher, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Simone became fully convinced this rejection had been entirely due to her race, a statement that has been a matter of controversy. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed an honorary degree on Simone.
To make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to "Nina Simone". The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music" or "cocktail piano" at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist.
Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".
Simone's musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.
To fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano, which increased her weekly income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone". "Nina" (from niña, meaning "little girl" in Spanish), and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the movie Casque d'Or. Knowing her mother would not approve of playing the "Devil's Music", she used her new stage name to remain undetected. Simone's mixture of jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.
In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage. Playing in small clubs in the same year, she recorded George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only Billboard top 20 success in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue soon followed on Bethlehem Records. Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (notably for the 1980s re-release of My Baby Just Cares for Me) and never benefited financially from the album's sales because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000.
After the success of Little Girl Blue, Simone signed a contract with Colpix Records and recorded a multitude of studio and live albums. Colpix relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them. After the release of her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall, Simone became a favorite performer in Greenwich Village. By this time, Simone performed pop music only to make money to continue her classical music studies and was indifferent about having a recording contract. She kept this attitude toward the record industry for most of her career.
Simone married a New York police detective, Andrew Stroud, in 1961. He later became her manager and the father of her daughter Lisa, but he abused Simone psychologically and physically.
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No school like the old School..🎤🎧🎹🖤🤍🖤
I'm going to play this at my wedding
Then I'll play the original at my divorce :D
Nah. Play the emo version
So you planed your divorce?
what is the original?
this is the original
@@totalcrash5006 Nope.
Fiddlin' John Carson (oldest recording)
1928 : Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers, October 1928
1928 : Carter Brothers, November 1928
1941 : Burl Ives
1942 : Adolph Hofner and his San Antonians
1947 : Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
1959 : Nina Simone
Rednex version is great for partying and all but after nearly 30 years I’m just a tad tired of hearing it. Bless this woman ❤❤
Some gems are unknown..case in point.
Yes. Wonderful comment
nitropost. Indeed
Clearly is a known track..
@@JETJOOBOY sort of agree with both sides. It's a known track. Over shadowed by it's cowboy little brother.
This was track #1 on a Greatest Hits collection of Nina Simone’s I got in my senior year in college, 2005. Listened to it every day that fall. Unforgettable artist and music.
Ok boomer
@@la-grave Shut up nerd
One of my absolute favorite in the Nina Simone canon. Delicious vocals, authentic phrasing, dignified piano, understated combo. Everything I need!!
That is so damned beautiful, what a superb rendition.
Huh… I came here to prank my wife, but that was really beautiful.
I find this song as a classic
always makes me wanna shed a tear
If we pay attention to the story it discloses a situation many have experienced.
@@murph3001 yeah, white girls r*ped and m*rd*red. That's what the song was about.
crazy for nina simone to cover this song by rednex
I love this so much.
Thank you
What a talent
I mean I always hated the cotton eyed joe but this is beautiful...
in 1959 I would have turned this off. Now, superb,relaxing and the best version I've heard!
nah bill monroe winning
How did You get out?
@@davidhorn6008 what u on about lad
Clearly beyond Your comprehension.
why? what's the difference from then to now?
Dr. Nina Simone filtered every musical style through the African Black American musical asthestic. Such a wonderful interpretation of a valued folk song. Live well in the land of the Ancestors sista!
How come I am just discovering this soulful rendition. I been listening to the trailertrash remix version for years, yeah I love both. cash me ousside at my best and worst lol yolo
Yolo? What fucking year is it 2012?
This my first time hearing this, but I never listen to the other
@@kayless9728 2021
@@kayless9728 fuckin YOLO is eternal m8
Wow, this is really pleasant and cool
wow 🥺
Takes your heart.
You feel her pains
❤
This version is great but personally I still love the Terry Calliers version more
[2x:]
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to hell broken sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men cause of Cotton-Eye Joe
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?
A lot more real feeling to it than that shitty Rednex crap.
15sixmedia what's your point
15sixmedia. This is a great great piece. Beauty beyond beauty. Comment on its stunning soul rather than some incoherent politic
Hear Clifton Hicks version it has a lot of soul but sticks to its origin.
🤪 because the Rednex dance/ pop version is supposed to be full of "feeling"
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@@RATSinTHEhallway1986 yes i love the original style of this song (bill monroe style not nina) but rednex version isnt bad, its for partying. these people are such party poopers.
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Curiously, this song resemble get reminds of Canary islands folklore.
@childishgambino please make a cover!
gold classic dont need cover from modern trash 😉
This is how it was meant to be sung. Such a beautiful voice, filled with emotion. Not like that tripe from the Rednex. They destroyed this song, honestly. I mean, they made it catchy and fun, sure. Lots of people love it. But it's intended as a sad song. Sing it as a sad song. Nina did this hymn the justice it deserved.
no the way bill monroe sung it is how it was meant to be, sure its meant to be sad, but still a rhytmic fast song
@@hahalol6331 Agree to disagree. Cotton Eyed Joe was a slave hymn going back as far as post or possibly pre-Civil War. It was about a lover lost. A man losing his lover to the persuasions of another man. It was never intended to be sung as a party/dance song. The original was slow and moving. This is much closer to that. And her voice is glorious to boot.
Rednex took that hymn and added a catchy tune. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, like I said before. Lots of people really like it that way, and it remains very popular. I, however, hate it. I prefer the song how it was intended.
@@pennilesswriter1556 i meam it literally says its a country, bluegrass, banjo song when u google it. I hear no banjo no country and no bluegrass in this lol.
@@hahalol6331 must be true if google says so
Hey, didn't she nick this from the Rednex?
🤣
Nah, she stole this from Kanye and Rihanna.
582 likes and ZEEEEERO dislikes!!!
bro they hide dislikeslmaoo
@@hahalol6331 Seriously? LOL, I've noticed recently that lots of videos have zero dislikes. It wasn't always that way. LOL, thanks for pointing this out!
@@mattfraidin8562 yes yt recently did it. They pissed dveryone off haha
twisted LOL
Beautiful. What a shame to be outshined by “Rednex” , almost a poignant kind of metaphor for race relations in Nina’s time.
This lady had a class of her own
My north carolina sister. People from north carolina have so much talec
what in the hell..
LMAO!!
neoperseus yup and here’s proof vm.tiktok.com/7J68YA/
Do you prefer the Rednex version?
@@spacetweek i prefer the bill monroe version, this is trash. rednex is better but its for partying.
Beautiful, but i prefer Terry Callier's version.
Follow Jesus Christ he loves us all repent of your sins amen 🙏🏾
Pretty ordinary.
You cant be serious!!!! Trying to figure if you need a soul doctor or an ear doctor ___ probably both ___ just kidding
Misha. Your comment is misha goss
Sure is especially if you have no taste in great music
Misha's taste equals misha goss