Here Comes the Sun

by Nina Simone

Overview

Just past the point where a great artist reaches too far for new material, 1971's Here Comes the Sun presented Nina Simone in a contemporary setting with eight covers of recent rock hits. Though the title track isn't very embarrassing -- her voice betrays a few technical faults -- there are few successes with the rest of the material. Simone's versions of "O-o-h Child," "Mr. Bojangles," "Just Like a Woman," and "My Way" are historical curiosities and sound terribly dated (the furious bongos and sweeping strings on the last is a denouement). Much of the problem lies with the arrangements, though several times these passable rock songs get the best from Simone's interpretive skills. ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	06/10/2014
Label:	Music On Vinyl
UPC:	8718469535316
Rank:	614

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist
Harold Wheeler   Conductor

Technical Credits

Turner Layton   Composer
Stan Vincent   Composer
Berlin   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Jacques Revaux   Composer
Claude Francois   Composer
Cynthia Weil   Composer
George Harrison   Composer
Weldon Irvine   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer,Performer
Samuel Waymon   Production Coordination
Harold Wheeler   Arranger,Producer
Kermit Moore   Orchestra Assembly
Henry Creamer   Composer
Paul Anka   Composer
Chip Taylor   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Ed Begley   Engineer
Jerry Jeff Walker   Composer
Gilles Thibaut   Composer
The Havens   Composer