• Included in the Music Videos List.
• Peggy and I each had “Greatest Hits” CD’s of Nina Simone in our collections that we had gotten before we met.

Martin Winfree

February 23, 2013 ·

Had she lived, Nina Simone would have been 80 years old a few days ago (Feb. 21); a great, under-appreciated talent. She was even a North Carolinian (born in Tryon, NC) – didn’t know that before. Peggy and I each had “Greatest Hits” CD’s of her in our collections that we had gotten before we met. I think we might have gotten to in the same way (not sure though); I was introduced to her in the 1993 Bridget Fonda film Point of No Return. Here Nina Simone is doing the immortal Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic, “I Put a Spell on You”:
Nina Simone – I put a spell on you