Joe writes: My favourite Nina Simone recording, as covered recently
by Laura Mvula. It was the title track of Nina's debut album from 1958,
released on the seasonal-sounding Bethlehem Records. But there was no room at the inn for Nina - according to Wikipedia, she sold her rights to the album (which also included the much-synched My Baby
Just Cares For Me) outright for $3000. I suspect Joni Mitchell might have got the idea for the Jingle Bells piano part in River from Little Girl Blue's similar reference to to Good King Wenceslas.
Anyway, Rodgers & Hart wrote Little Girl Blue; Nina immortalised it.
Anyway, Rodgers & Hart wrote Little Girl Blue; Nina immortalised it.
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