I confess to having never heard this song until now. (I looked it up after seeing the 'For Colored Girls' trailer to which it provides the soundtrack.)

My word, what a song! And what a performance of it in this clip; the groove is hypnotic, and Miss Eunice's vocals and piano playing are fierce!

Quality like this is rare, so I had to share.....

I'd first heard this song some years ago while watching the Sandra Bernhard film "Without You I'm Nothing". She covered it to comical effect at the beginning of the film. I (shamefully) thought it was her song until I looked it up and found out it was a Nina Simone tune. I love the way she says "Peaches" at the end.

Thank you.

love,

Peaches

SEANMAN said:

I'd first heard this song some years ago while watching the Sandra Bernhard film "Without You I'm Nothing". She covered it to comical effect at the beginning of the film. I (shamefully) thought it was her song until I looked it up and found out it was a Nina Simone tune. I love the way she says "Peaches" at the end.

No shame!! I thought the same.

I bought this the year it was released...

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Not the best compilation, but the best overview about her musical career. I remember putting that song on repeat along with "Mississippi Goddam".

The deal was sealed for me by the time she sang the line "What do they call me? My name is PEACHES!" GREAT stylist to the truest sense, it is hard to associate a certain song sung by her with other artists,,,,thats why I thought it was a complete waste of time to do the cover and feature it in the "Colored Girls" movie where it could've been MORE affective had dumb ass TP featured the original instead.

There are no words to describe how much I love this song

I can listen to Nina all day.

Glad we're all loving us some Nina - especially the "Peaches" line! It's a very powerful song, I agree. I couldn't find any details about who's singing it in the movie trailer. Needless to say, it's an impossible task for the poor lass to come close to the original. There's something interesting, too, I think, about the fact that that narrative form and content, which apparently proved too 'in-your-face' for black radio stations at the time it was recorded, should be exactly what's being adopted by Af-Am filmmakers like Tyler Perry, and resonates with his audience, nearly half a century later.

I love this performance, too. I often find that musically, her records and performances seem to anticipate styles and forms that are yet to come in music; or were perhaps simply very influential. In fact, when it started playing, I thought perhaps someone had put older performance clips with a more modern recording, because the feel of the music seems like something that emerged later. There's a few of her records I feel like that about, like her cover of Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, which feels to me like something that could easily have been recorded decades later. I think perhaps they just stand out, since the musicianship makes much of what was contemporaneous to it seem so much less rich and nuanced by comparison.

Will check out the Anthology set, too. Cheers for the recommend!

It kind of sounds like it may be Anina Noki Rose singing it in the trailer.

great, great artist and song. my bf is a huge fan of hers. of course that means I have heard most of her catalog. very creative and yes she had some hypnotic grooves.

SEANMAN said:

It kind of sounds like it may be Anina Noki Rose singing it in the trailer.

In that case, I take back all I said!