I Put a Spell on You by Nina Simone — album cover
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I Put a Spell on You

Nina Simone · 1965 · Jazz / soul

Nina Simone's most pop-facing record, cut in New York in January 1965 while she was channelling the fury of the civil-rights movement into songs like 'Mississippi Goddam'. Twelve interpretations, none of them hers by pen, two of them — the title track and 'Feeling Good' — so completely possessed that the world now hears them as Nina Simone songs.

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