{"id":3093,"date":"2012-08-16T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2012-09-08T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:58:32","slug":"nina-simone-save-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"Nina Simone – Save Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Nina Simone – Save Me<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of another week is upon is, and so \u2013 as is always the case \u2013 is the regular Friday night get together known as the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, broadcast on Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a> at 9PM. If you cannot join me at the time of broadcast, you can always head into iTunes<\/strong> and subscribe to the show as a podcast, or head over to the archive right here at the blog where you can pick yourself up an MP3 of the show the day after it airs.<\/p>\n

The song I bring you today has been sitting on ice for almost two years, from right around the time we last paid tribute to the greatness of the legendary Miss Nina Simone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If memory serves, I scored both of the 45s in question at around the same time, and didn\u2019t want to post them too close together and ended up hanging onto the second of them (the one you see before you today) for way too long.<\/p>\n

As has been addressed here today, the song \u2018Save Me\u2019 has a long and interesting history, starting out as \u2018Help Me (Get the Feeling)\u2019 by Ray Sharpe<\/strong>, moving on to its best-known incarnation in the version by Aretha Franklin<\/strong> (the first as \u2018Save Me\u2019), then on to be recycled as the rhythm track to King Curtis\u2019<\/strong> \u2018Instant Groove\u2019 and then again as \u2018Help Me\u2019 by Jamaican singer Owen Gray<\/strong> (all the same rhythm track with none other than Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> on rhythm guitar with the King\u2019s band).<\/p>\n

Miss Nina Simone didn\u2019t step into the fray until 1969, but when she did, she came correct.<\/p>\n

To say that Nina layed out the definitive version of \u2018Save Me\u2019 would not be \u2013 as they say \u2013 speaking out of school.<\/p>\n

The arrangement, whipped together by no less a light than Weldon Irvine<\/strong> (who I suspect is also playing the organ) is tight and funky.<\/p>\n

The drums are just heavy enough, the rhythm guitar \u2013 which carries the \u2018Gloria\u2019-esque riff \u2013 has a bright, live sound and Nina is in rare form.<\/p>\n

Where Aretha Franklin, a singer of prodigious technical gifts might have aimed right for the stratosphere, \u00a0Nina Simone, possessed of a deft, artist\u2019s touch, takes her time, working a masterful turn of phrase. Like a great boxer, she bobs and weaves around the lyric, hitting sparingly but when she does, stinging like a gunshot.<\/p>\n

This is as real as it gets, and \u2013 in one of the great bonus deals of all time \u2013 also manages to be danceable.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it as much as I do, and I\u2019ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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