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Series
NET Festival
Episode Number
24
Episode
Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul
Producing Organization
London Weekend Television (Firm)
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/75-02c8684w
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Description
Episode Description
Dubbed "the high priestess of soul," Nina Simone demonstrates her highly personal vocal style in a program of jazz, blues, folk and pop music. The program, produced by London Weekend TV, was taped during Miss Simone's first television appearance in England. When it aired here, critics called it "exceptional" (The Philadelphia Inquirer); "sold pop-entertainment" (Newsday); and "very moving and brooding performance" (Boston Globe). Performing before a studio audience, Miss Simone is heard in "Backlash Blues," a poem by Langston Hughes which she adapted into a protest song; "GoLimp," a humorous song about a girl on a freedom march; "Mississippi Goddam," Miss Simone's first protest song; "Four Women," a succession of musical vignettes on how women's circumstances and outlooks vary according to their gradations of skin color; and "in the Morning." Miss Simone is accompanied by Sam Wayman, organ; Henry Young, guitar; Gene Taylor, bass; and Buck Clark, drums. Nina Simone became a top entertainer in 1959 through her recording of "I Love You Porgy." It started her on a long series of personal appearances in leading clubs and concert halls in this country and abroad. Born Eunice Waymon in 1939 in Tryon, North Carolina, she was the sixth of eight children in a very poor family. Her father was a handyman, and her mother, who worked as a house keeper during the day, at night donned the robes of an ordained Methodist minister. At the age of four Nina was playing the piano, and by seven had attracted the attention of a woman for whom her mother worked and who paid for her to have piano lessons with a local teacher, Mrs. Lawarence Mazzanovich. When after two years Nina could no longer afford the lessons, Mrs. Mazzanovich, recognizing her talent, continued them without charge, and also established a Eunice Waymon Fund to insure advanced studies for her. With this money, she attended high school in Asheville, NC, and later studied for a year and a half at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Her money ran out, and she returned to her family, which had moved to Philadelphia. There she gave piano lessons and worked as accompanist in a vocal studio. In 1954, when the studio closed for the summer, she got a job in a night club in Atlantic City. Though she had been hired as a pianist, she found she was also expected to sing. Having never sung before, in desperation she tried and amazed herself at her success with the audience. It was then fearing her parents ' displeasure at her working in a night club that she changed her name to Nina Simone. After her success in Atlantic City, she returned to the studio, but soon decided to try her luck with a show business career. From then on she gravitated to fame. "A great singer, she has also been described as a spokeswoman for morality," who expresses her personal feelings in her songs. She herself has said "I can 't sing a song without meaning it." The following is the complete rundown of musical items on this program: Go To Hell Ain 't Got No ,AeP I Got Life Please Read Me Backlash Blues Sea Lion woman Be My Husband Go Limp In the Morning Four Women I Put a Spell on You Misunderstood The Other Woman Mississippi Goddam Peace of Mind The King of Love is Dead Fanfare "Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul" is a presentation of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. A production of London Weekend TV. This hour-long piece was recorded in color on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
NET Festival is an anthology series of performing arts programming.
Description
This hour with American jazz-blues singer and pianist Nina Simone was taped during her first British television appearance.
Broadcast Date
1971-03-21
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:58:08
Credits
Designer: Austen, Leo
Director: Beckett, Keith
Executive Producer: Granger, Derek
Performer: Simone, Nina
Performer: Taylor, Gene
Performer: Young, Henry
Performer: Wayman, Sam
Performer: Clark, Buck
Producing Organization: London Weekend Television (Firm)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_2487 (WNET Archive)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_5103 (WNET Archive)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-5 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:57:41
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:57:41
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-6 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:57:41
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1849194-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Citations
Chicago: “NET Festival; 24; Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul,” 1971-03-21, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-02c8684w.
MLA: “NET Festival; 24; Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul.” 1971-03-21. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-02c8684w>.
APA: NET Festival; 24; Nina Simone: The Sound of Soul. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-02c8684w