Wild Is the Wind (album)
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| Studio album by Nina Simone | ||||
| Released | 1966 | |||
| Recorded | New York, 1964 1965 | |||
| Genre | Vocal Soul Pop Folk R&B |
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| Length | 39:08 | |||
| Label | Philips | |||
| Producer | Hal Mooney | |||
| Nina Simone chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Wild Is the Wind is singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone's (1933–2003) sixth album under record company Philips. The album was made up of several recordings that were left over of recording sessions for previous Philips albums. Therefore it is something of a hodgepodge album (which is typical of a lot of Simone's studio albums), with tracks aimed at the popular market (such as "I Love Your Lovin' Ways") and songs that are more ambitious in nature. It is particularly the songs of this last category that give the album its standard quality.
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[edit] Well known songs on this album
- "Four Women": in this self-written and composed song Simone weaves the monologues together of four African-American women, each reflecting a common stereotype. They are: the hard working but never appreciated Aunt Sarah, the mixed-raced Saffronia, the prostitute Sweet Thing, and finally the angry and bitter Peaches, who is enraged because of her enslaved ancestry and wants to strike out. Upon its release the song was sometimes misunderstood, some black radio stations even refused to play it because they found it racist. It became one of Simone's standards, and has later been covered by Reflection Eternal.
- "Wild Is The Wind" was covered by David Bowie on his 1976 studio recording Station To Station.
[edit] Track listing
- "I Love Your Lovin' Ways" (Bennie Benjamin/Sol Marcus) – 2:35
- "Four Women" (Nina Simone) – 4:24
- "What More Can I Say" (Horace Ott/Made Brown, Jr.) – 2:48
- "Lilac Wine" (James Shelton) – 4:13
- "That's All I Ask" (Horace Ott) – 2:28
- "Break Down And Let It All Out" (Van McCoy) – 2:37
- "Why Keep On Breaking My Heart" (Bennie Benjamin/Sol Marcus) – 2:34
- "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington) – 6:56
- "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (traditional) – 3:24
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger/Leo Robin) – 3:56
- "Either Way I Lose" (Van McCoy) – 2:43
[edit] Charts
| Chart 1966 | Peak position |
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| Billboard 200 | 110[2] |
| Billboard R&B Chart | 12[2] |
