In a message dated 07/08/01 00:06:16 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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<< Nina Simone -- "Wild Is The Wind"
 
 is this the saem as the one on Bowie's Station To Station? I love his 
version (it is the only one I have heard!)  >>

It is, Colin.  The song was first sung, believe it or not, by Johnny Mathis, 
the theme song to a film of the same name.  Bowie's version, which is indeed 
storming, was heavily indebted to Nina's version, which is proof of her 
genius, especially when you realise at the end, after that incredible singing 
and stunning piano playing, that it was recorded live in concert!

Something I remember about the Bowie version is that the video that was made 
for it (although it wasn't released as a single until some seven or eight 
years after the album came out) featured all white musicans (his superb band 
at that time were all black), including a pretty woman clutching a saxophone, 
even though there is no sax on the song, and if there had been, Bowie would 
have been playing it himself!

Ah, those were the days, when some very strange contortions were undertaken 
to prevent non-caucasian faces getting prominence.  Anyone remember that 
record Mr DJ by The Concept?  The DJ performing the monologue was black, the 
face on the sleeve of the single was... white!

Azeem in London

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