My Baby Just Cares for Me

Nina Simone · 1958 · Recorded in 1958; European hit in 1987 after a Chanel No. 5 commercial.

Context

Music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn, written for the film Whoopee! (1930). Nina Simone recorded it in late 1957 for her first album Little Girl Blue (February 1959). A Chanel No. 5 ad in the United Kingdom in 1987 revived the song, which reached No. 5 on the British chart.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Mississippi Goddam (1964)
• Feeling Good (1965)
• I Put a Spell on You (1965)
• Sinnerman (1965)
• Four Women (1966)
• To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1970)

Sources

• EN: My Baby Just Cares for Me

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