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Cover to Cover: Young, Gifted and Black

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
in Not Sports Related
The majestic but troubled Nina Simone original from 1969 or the 1970 reggae hit for Bob and Marcia?

Listen to both without prejudice (in all senses of that phrase) and say which you prefer.

https://youtu.be/RTGiKYqk0gY

https://youtu.be/ubDVUQon5BE

Comments

  • raytreacy69
    raytreacy69 Posts: 955
    Bob and Marcia for me -Great song
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    raytreacy69 said:
    Bob and Marcia for me -Great song

    +1
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    No contest for me, Bob and Marcia. I didn't like the Nina Simone one at all, another one of hers with that awful school piano sound and dreadful pregnant pauses. Great singer, but but I wish she'd found a better producer. The Bob and Marcia one was another kettle of fish altogether. So uplifting and positive, as an old, ordinary and white man I couldn't help tapping along to its infectious rhythm. Wonderful stuff. 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    It's Bob and Marcia for me 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Another vote for Bob and Marcia, the uptempo arrangement was a far more effective way of spreading the message too
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Nina is musical genius but in this instance I prefer Bob and Marcia.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Every other cover to cover someone pops up saying they prefer the Nina Simone version not mentioned so I include one of her songs and no one picks her!

    😁
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Nina Simone for me. 

    I’ll listen to it later when I can find my headphones 👍
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Bob and Marcia
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Henry Irving said:
    Every other cover to cover someone pops up saying they prefer the Nina Simone version not mentioned so I include one of her songs and no one picks her!

    😁

    Well I will changed that, love Nina Simone one of the greatest female singers of all time, like the  Bob and Marcia version as well.
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  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    Bob and Marcia
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Perhaps the most one-sided cover to cover yet?
  • danny777
    danny777 Posts: 222
    Love them both, but Nina Simone for me.

  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Bob and Marcia for me too, even got a copy of it on 7" vinyl.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,716
    Bob and Marcia for me. 

    just watched the really good documentary "I am not your Negro" - that was on last week. BBC2. which James Baldwin mentions the play/film. 

    the original song sung by Nina Simone was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry who wrote the play "A Raisin in the Sun" (the first play to be written by a black woman for Broadway) with Sidney Poitier in the lead role. 
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Bought the B&M album 70/71? Hearing this now just sounds very light weight. Reggae with strings ? Guess there were a few doing it to try & get some commercial success. I'll have to go with Nina.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    can I say I prefer the Areatha Franklin version?
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    LargeAddick said:
    can I say I prefer the Areatha Franklin version?

    No
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    LargeAddick said:
    can I say I prefer the Areatha Franklin version?
    No.

    You can mention the Elton John version though.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Bob & Marcia  without doubt.

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