To Love Somebody

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To Love Somebody

Studio album by Nina Simone
Released	1969
Recorded	RCA Studio's New York City 1968, September 16 & October 1
Genre	Vocal Soul Pop Folk
Label	RCA victor
Producer(s)	Stroud Productions, Danny Davis
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Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone and Piano (1969)	To Love Somebody (1969)	Black Gold (1970)

To Love Somebody is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003). It was released as quickly as possible to prolong the unexpected succes of Nuff Said. The title is taken from the Bee Gees' song "To Love Somebody", her cover of the song became her second British hit single after "Ain't Got No-I Got Life".

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"Suzanne", originally by Leonard Cohen.
"Revolution, Part 1 & 2" was Simone's third subsequent single released in the UK after "Ain't Got No-I Got Life" and "To Love Somebody" both became hits. The song was released around the time of the same titled song by the Beatles, but bears no resemblance with that song. It is actually one song, but because of an unknown reason chopped in two by a two-second silence. "Revolution" didn't do well in the UK charts, and only had a mild succes in the United States R&B charts. Simone didn't expect this lack of succes and said to Sylvia Hampton, author of the biography Break Down and Let It All Out about this:

(...) I don't get it. It's about a revolution, man: not just colour, but everything! It's about barriers being broken down, and they sure as hell need getting rid of. (...) We need a revolution to sort it all out and get back to God. You know how lost we are, man - it's sad.^[1]

"To Love Somebody" & "I Can't See Nobody" are songs by the Bee Gees, the first one later being covered by Billy Corgan.
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", "I Shall Be Released", & "The Times They Are A-Changin'" are songs by Bob Dylan.