Displaced Persons soundtrack, part 22: 1969 (pg. 66-67). Nina - TopicsExpress



          

Displaced Persons soundtrack, part 22: 1969 (pg. 66-67). Nina Simones 1969 version of The Bee Gees To Love Somebody strikes me as a natural accompaniment to the thrift shop romance depicted in this scene. The Gibbs actually wrote this song for Otis Redding, who died before he could record it. Its a song about unrequited love, but here it plays for a couple whose love is not so much unrequited as unmaintained. I prefer the Nina Simone version to the original Bee Gees version here, partly because Id prefer the Nina Simone version of anything to the Bee Gees version of anything, but mostly because I really want there to be a female vocal on it for this scene—with the couple in question, I dont see the feelings in this song being expressed the other way around. At least not yet.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:20:34 +0000

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