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March 24 , 2007
"Here Comes the Sun: Nina Simone on RCA"
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This week on Night Lights it's "Here Comes the Sun: Nina Simone on RCA." In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of jazz, blues, pop, folk, and soul, recording songs such as Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "The Look of Love," Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," civil-rights anthems such as "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free," and occasional standards such as Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well." We'll hear all of those and more, Saturday, March 24 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU.

Here are some videos of Nina Simone performing at the Central Park Harlem Festival in 1969:

• Young, Gifted and Black
• Ain’t Got No… I Got Life