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Nina Simone
Blues for Porgy
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Fields wrote the words, and Nina Simone was the first to record them, back in 1960. Same pen as the standards your grandparents danced to, a very different voice carrying it.
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Liner notes
Written by Dorothy Fields.
First recorded by Nina Simone in 1960.
Also recorded by Ethel Waters (1993).
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Dorothy Fields, the lyricist behind standards everyone hums, wrote "Blues for Porgy." Which singer was the first to put it on record?Nina Simone
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