NINA SIMONE - My baby just cares for me (LIVE Warsaw 1997)

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Nina Simone - live

Sala Kongresowa
Warsaw, Poland
12/17/1997

My baby just cares for me

Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

"My Baby Just Cares for Me" is a jazz standard written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Written for the film version of the musical comedy Whoopee! (1930), the song became a signature tune for Eddie Cantor who sang it in the movie. A stylized version of the song by Nina Simone, recorded in 1957, was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom after it was used in a 1987 Chanel No. 5 perfume commercial and resulted in a renaissance for Simone.

Simone recorded the song in late 1957 for her debut album, Little Girl Blue, released the following year. The track remained relatively obscure until 1987, when it was used in a UK television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume. To follow up this exposure, the track was released as a single by Charly Records, entering the UK Singles Chart on October 31, 1987 and becoming, after a peak at number 5, one of Simone's biggest hits almost 29 years after her previous chart entry. This single also made the top 10 in several European single charts and peaked at number one in the Dutch Top 40. At this time there was also a twelve inch single released, Special Extended Smoochtime Version, with a 5.23 running time.

The Simone version of the song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1992 film Peter's Friends, the 1994 film Shallow Grave[10], and the 1996 film Stealing Beauty.