When Soul City records moved uptown in 1967 Musicland opened in its place. It was here that I first heard Nina Simon's My Baby Just Cares For Me, which was, way back then, a rare record. Remarkable that this track was recorded on her first recording session in 1957, when the song was in fact written back in 1928! The track was issued on her first album, Little Girl Blue on Bethlehem BCP6028 us 1959. It was a favourite in those days in the West Indian scene and went on to be a hit in 1987 reaching No. 5 in the charts, and adopted as the theme for a British television advert for Channel No 5 perfume. However, fate had conspired against Nina, as many years earlier she had sold the rights of her recordings to her record company for a (meagre) few thousand dollars. |
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