LP   Wild Is The Wind
	Philips (US) PHM 200-207
	Recording studio session 1964, New York
		Why Keep On Breaking My Heart   Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus [00:33]
	Recording studio session 1964 Apr. 1-6, New York
		Wild Is the Wind   Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington [00:58]
		Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Traditional [00:26]
	Recording studio session 1965 Jan. 15, New York -- (LP I Put a Spell on You)
		I Love Your Lovin' Ways   Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus [00:28]
	Recording studio session 1965 May 19-20, New York -- (LP Pastel Blues)
		If I Should Lose You   Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger [00:58]
	Recording studio session 1965 Sep. 30-Oct. 1, New York -- (LP Let It All Out)
		Four Women   Nina Simone [00:24]
		What More Can I Say   Horace Ott, W. Brown jr [00:50]
		Lilac Wine   James Shelton -- vocal unaccompanied [00:15]
		That's All I Ask   Horace Ott [00:27]
		Break Down And Let It All Out   Van McCoy [00:38]
	Recording studio session 1966, New York -- (LP High Priestess of Soul)
		Don't You Pay Them No Mind   R. Ahlert, Bobby Scott [00:62]
	Wild Is The Wind (1966) brings together 11 hitherto unreleased selections which Simone recorded in 1964 and 1965 at sessions for her 4 previous Philips albums. Some of the shorter pieces - "I Love Your Lovin' Ways", "Why Keep on Breaking My Heart?" and "Either Way I Lose", all under 3 minutes - were apparently aimed at the mainstream pop music market. Other performances are more ambitious. "What More Can I Say?", composed by Oscar Brown Jr. and arran ger Horace Ott, is a touching declaration of love and loyalty. Simone reinterprets songs she had recorded before - "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" and "Lilac Wine" - and offers moody versions of the ballads "If I Shou ld Lose You" and "Wild Is the Wind." The most striking selection is Simone's composition "Four Women" - brief, incisive portraits reflecting the experiences and generational perspectives of a variegated quartet of black women: th e aged, long-suffereing Aunt Sara; the confused, racially-mixed Saffronia; the prostitue Sweet Thing; and the militant Peaches who vows to "kill the first mother I see."
	Comments to Mauro Boscarol