this is sexy—-i love low-voiced women so much better than the masses of baby-voiced women singers out there.
Those low-pitched, husky, breathy, female voices: A friend described them sounding like a saxophone. "The notes come out and you can hear them, but there's all this other sound in there."
Wow! I wish this kind of thing would happen *every* time a real artist decides to cover a "pop tune".
Screamin' Jay Hawkins was pop? Maybe, thinkin' about it, he was. Still, it's funny to read about the song's roots (from wikipedia):
"Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad."<5> The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon."<5> The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales,<6><7> although it failed to make the Billboardpop or R&B charts
Ladies and Gents ... Ms. Nina Simone!! Emotion, passion, technique, cultural bagage ... and many other adjetives I am not able to articulate because her rendering of this tune leaves me just speechless!
Bill, how about the version by Jeff Beck and Joss Stone from his latest CD? There are some other cool tunes on it as well. Interesting CD from El Becko.
You know Dave, in the end, we're all just individuals, singular souls belonging to nothing but the universe....all given gifts to be cherished. You are heartless, a simple thanks so troublesome
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