Nina Simone Feelings July 3, 1976

Morris Albert's 1975 easiest-of-listening hits "Feelings" hardly seems like an obvious choice of covering for a song reinterpreter as substantive as Nina Simone, but goddamn if the legendary singer doesn't find the cruel devastation and bleeding heart at the center of Albert's woah-oh-oh hit in this Montreux performance. Simone herself seems to be feeling the song a dangerous amount, so much so that it feels uncomfortable to watch during the song's extended a capella intro and free-associative outro. No wonder the audience needed prompting to start clapping.