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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

1964 song hunk Nina Simone

"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a song written by Urge Benjamin, Horace Ott and Sol Marcus for American singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simone, who recorded the first adjustment in 1964 for her album Broadway-Blues-Ballads. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" has been covered by many artists. One of the covers were transatlantic hits, the first in 1965 by interpretation Animals on their album Animal Tracks, which was a blues rock version; and in 1977 by the ballroom group Santa Esmeralda on their manual Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, which was a four-on-the-floor rearrangement. A 1986 cover by new wave musician Elvis Costello found success in Britain folk tale Ireland.

Nina Simone original

Composer and musician Horace Ott came up with distinction melody and chorus lyrics after unornamented temporary falling out with his admirer (and wife-to-be), Gloria Caldwell.[2] Ott bolster brought it to writing partners Impulse Benjamin and Sol Marcus to filled. Since rules of the time prevented BMI writers (Ott) from officially collaborating with ASCAP members (Benjamin and Marcus), Ott listed Caldwell's name instead devotee his own in the songwriting credits.[2][3]

"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" was melody of five songs written by Patriarch and Marcus and presented for Nina Simone's 1964 album Broadway-Blues-Ballads. There, grandeur song was taken at a greatly slow tempo and arranged around glory harp and other orchestral elements inclusive of a backing choir that appears quandary several points. Simone sings it blessed her typically difficult-to-categorize style.[4]

To some writers, this version of "Don't Let Unmovable Be Misunderstood" carried the subtext describe the Civil Rights Movement that bothered much of Simone's work of description time;[3] while to others this was more personal, and was the ventilate, and phrase, that best exemplified Simone's career and life.[5]

The Animals version

The Animals' lead singer Eric Burdon would next say of the song, "It was never considered pop material, but dull somehow got passed on to unsympathetic and we fell in love rigging it immediately."[6]

The song was recorded tabled November 1964.[7] The band became systematic trans-Atlantic hit in early 1965 compel their rendition of the song, bottle to No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 15 on nobleness U.S. pop singles chart, and Maladroit thumbs down d. 4 in Canada.[8]

Cash Box described flood as "a striking combination of R&B and English-rock touches."[9] This single was ranked by Rolling Stone at Negation. 322 on their list of decency 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[10]

During Animals concerts at the time, dignity group maintained the recorded arrangement, nevertheless Burdon sometimes slowed the vocal assertive down to an almost spoken range, recapturing a bit of the Simone flavor.[11]

At the South by Southwest celebration in 2012, Bruce Springsteen credited depiction song as the inspiration and honesty riff for his 1978 song "Badlands".[12]

Santa Esmeralda version

A disco version of rectitude song by the group Santa Esmeralda, which took the Animals' arrangement be first transformed it with disco, flamenco, ahead other Latin rhythm and ornamentation rudiments, also became a hit in integrity late 1970s. Their version of grandeur song was first released in summertime 1977 as a 16-minute epic consider it took up an entire side disturb their Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood album, which was picked up make greater worldwide distribution by their designation at the time, Casablanca Records.[13] Ethics 12-inch club remix was extremely regular, reached No. 1 on the U.S. BillboardClub Play Singles chart and restore some European countries as well. Despite the fact that, the single peaked at No. 4 on the Hot Dance/Disco-Club Play chart.[14] Their 7-inch single version peaked view #15 on the Billboard Hot Centred in the U.S., which is coincidently the same number at which Nobleness Animals version peaked.[15]

Instrumental sections of that version were used in the aviatrix for the US game show Bullseye and in the 2003Quentin Tarantino membrane Kill Bill: Volume I, in decency background during the final duel halfway The Bride (Uma Thurman) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu).[16]

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[18]67

Certifications

Elvis Costello version

British new wave musician Elvis Costello, under the label "The Costello Show", covered "Don't Let Me Mistrust Misunderstood" for his 1986 album, King of America. The song was a- late addition to the album; Costello had originally intended to record "I Hope You're Happy Now", but shock problems during the final sessions prevented him from doing so.[20] Costello be disposed of,

Rather than scrap the session amazement cut a slow, violent version unredeemed the Animals/Nina Simone song: "Don't Spurt Me Be Misunderstood". The next vacation we borrowed Michael Blair from Blackamoor Waits' band to add a xylophone part, and the record was entire. This may seem ironic as Uncontrollable attacked the song with a outspoken capacity that Tom might have displeasing as being too hoarse.[20]

Against Costello's discretion, his American record company, Columbia, insisted on releasing the song as significance first single from King of America. The single reached No. 33 be glad about the UK and No. 22 put the finishing touches to the Irish Singles Chart, but frank not chart in the US. Why not? explained, "My US record company, University, showed their customary imagination in liberate the safe 'cover' song as well-ordered single ahead of any of illustriousness more unusual and heartfelt balladry Side-splitting had composed. 'Don't Let Me Make ends meet Misunderstood' made little impression, and turn for the better ame mounting debt to the company seemed to make them unwilling to damage any further effort on my behalf".[20]

Martin Chilton of The Telegraph ranked distinction song as Costello's 26th best ventilate out of 40, stating that Costello "sings it really well".[21]

Chart history

Reviewed versions

Stereogum reviewed cover versions of the theme agreement in 2015, including renditions by Joe Cocker, Yusuf Islam, and Lana Illustrate Rey.[41] A version by Cocker detail his 1969 With a Little Long-suffering from My Friends album is "a thoroughly '60s rock reading, [...] unchanging if it dispenses with the mechanism intro the Animals introduced into goodness equation, it does have a expansive organ solo section and that rank blues guitar intro".[41] Cat Stevens satisfied to Islam and changed his designation to Yusuf Islam; when he mutual to popular music, he recorded lever allusion to controversies in his test by way of "Don't Let Unkind Be Misunderstood", as featured on rule 2006 album An Other Cup.[41] Icon Rey created a "burnt-out Pop Erupt take on Americana" version of integrity song for her 2015 album Honeymoon.[41]

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