| Lilac Wine song by Nina Simone, album Wild is the wind (1966). Clip created and published for the first time by an unknown author : Nina Simone film inside the TV screen from Leave or Love me www.youtube.com No other record or live version by NS (?). Before NS : Eartha Kitt (1953), an other exiled black singer. After NS : Jeff Buckley, Elkie Brooks, Katie Melula, Cinematic Orchestra, many versions in England. Even Helen Merrill with strings orchestra at the end of her life ! More recently Jeff Beck and Imelda May. In 2009 Lizz Wright in the show homage to NinaSimone "Sing the Truth" with Diana Reeves, Simone Kelly and Angélique Kidjo. In France Fanny Ardant (last french director François Truffaut's wife). Lilac Wine, lyrics and music by James Shelton,1950. From "Dance Me a Song", short life musical revue (35 performances) of 1950 directed by James Shelton on Broadway (Royale Theatre. Creation by Hope Foye, a black singer pursued in 1952 by the McCarthy commission, blacklisted as Paul Robeson and exiled for long years. Eartha Kitt and Nina Simone both also exiled for political reasons 25 years later after the fight for civil rights of the sixties ! Perhaps the meaning of the peculiar emotion of the version of Nina Simone, one of the rare singers of "Strange fruit" after Billie Holliday. Lyrics : "I lost myself on a cool damp night Gave myself in that misty light Was hypnotized by a strange delight Under a lilac tree I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its ... |
