“My Baby Just Cares For Me” by Nina Simone

Walter Donaldson wrote the tune and Gus Kahn the words for "My Baby Just Cares for Me", a number made for the 1930 film of Whoopee! that became a signature for Eddie Cantor, who sang it on screen. Nina Simone got hold of it in late 1957 for her debut album, Little Girl Blue, and made the showtune cool, swinging and hers alone, playing piano as well as singing, with James E. Bond on double bass and Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums.

It sat in the shadows until a Chanel No. 5 commercial on British television in 1987 hauled it back out. Charly Records put it out as a single, and it climbed to number 5 in the UK, topped the Dutch Top 40 and went top 10 across several European charts, handing Simone a second wind some 18 years after she had last charted.

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