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Quintette du Hot Club de France
Exactly Like You
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McHugh wrote it, Quintette du Hot Club de France cut it first in 1937, and Nina Simone picked it up in 1959. Play them back to back and you can hear how far one song can travel from the pen that wrote it.
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Liner notes
Written by Jimmy McHugh.
First recorded by Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1937.
Also recorded by Abbey Lincoln (1958), Nina Simone (1959), Aretha Franklin (1962), Rita Reys & The Dutch Swing College Band (1963), Mike Taylor Quartet (1966).
How you get here
Jimmy McHugh wrote "Exactly Like You," a song that passed through many hands. Which of these singers made her own recording of it?Nina Simone
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