The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (265): Nina Simone gets Leonard Cohen

E says:

December 19, 2020 at 10:13 pm

Incredible! What an artist…thank you for posting.

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Bogna says:

December 20, 2020 at 2:21 am

Young Leonard was better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svitEEpI07E

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Micaela Bonetti says:

December 20, 2020 at 9:07 am

Ahhhhh Nina, Nina!
Miss you sooo madly!
Nina would transform any music, no matter how banal, in a gem!
With her voice, playing the piano, dancing, just being there…

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V. Lind says:

December 20, 2020 at 7:56 pm

Sorry to dissent. I was introduced to the poetry of Leonard Cohen in schooldays, long before he became a singer. I have heard Suzanne since I was a sprog, in his and many versions. While in no way denying the greatness of Nina Simone, this is far from my favourite version — it does not seem to me to capture the sense of the song at all. (To be fair, although many singers have done many excellent covers of a lot of his songs, Suzanne is one that has eluded most others (though Judy Collins’ version was quite appealing, but even it did not manage the pathos of his own).

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