Artist: Nina Simone Label: RCA Orig. Released: 1970 Catalog No.: LPRCA4248 Condition: Sealed-Reissue Format: LP Retail Price: $ 9.75 (0 available) Quantity: add to cart

Description Black Gold is a live album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone recorded in 1969 at the Philharmonic Hall, New York. The album is especially notable because it features the civil rights anthem song "To Be Young Gifted And Black". Read more at Wikipedia about this album or artist ... This description is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Any changes made to the Wikipedia article will not be immediately reflected here.

Track Titles 1 Introduction 2 Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair (Simone) Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair (Latimer) 3 Ain't Got No - I Got Life (Ragni-Rado-MacDermot) 4 Westwind (Salter-Semenya) 1 Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Denny) 2 The Assignment Sequence (Hendin) 3 To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Simone-Irvine)

Liner Notes * "BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR", THE ALBUM FEATURES TWO VERSIONS OF THE SONG, THE FIRST SUNG BY NINA, THE SECOND SUNG IN A MODIFIED VERSION BY HER GUITARIST, EMILE LATIMER. * "AIN'T GOT NO-I GOT LIFE", A LIVE REPRISE OF THE HITSINGLE FROM NUFF SAID (1969). * "WESTWIND", A SONG SIMONE LEARNED FROM HER FRIEND, THE AFRICAN SINGER MIRIAM MAKEBA. * "TO BE YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK", NINA WROTE THIS SONG TOGETHER WITH WELDON IRVINE IN MEMORY OF HER LATE FRIEND LORRAINE HANSBERRY, WRITER OF RAISIN IN THE SUN. THE SONG WAS ALSO RELEASED AS A STUDIO RECORDING SINGLE, WHICH BECAME A TOP 10 R&B HIT. [2] IT BECAME A CIVIL RIGHTS ANTHEM. NINA IS JOINED BY THE SINGING MALE DUO THE SWORDSMEN. IT WAS COVERED BY VARIOUS ARTISTS, AMONG THEM ARETHA FRANKLIN (YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK, 1972), DONNY HATHAWAY, DIONNE WARWICK AND BOB & MARCIA. SIMONE INTRODUCES THE SONG BY SAYING: "IT IS NOT ADDRESSED TO WHITE PEOPLE PRIMARILY. THOUGH IT DOESN'T PUT YOU DOWN IN ANY WAY...IT SIMPLY IGNORES YOU. FOR MY PEOPLE NEED ALL THE INSPIRATION AND LOVE THAT THEY CAN GET." TMK(S)(R) REGISTERED "¢ MARCA(S) REGISTRADA(S) RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA

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