Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood ✯ [Easy]

Simone’s interpretation transformed a standard apology into something much larger.

Horace Ott first conceived the melody and chorus after a heated argument with his then-girlfriend (and later wife), Gloria Caldwell. Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Simone recorded it for her album Broadway-Blues-Ballads as a downtempo, orchestrated ballad . Unlike later high-energy covers, her version featured prominent harp and a brooding, melancholic arrangement. Layers of Meaning and Sol Marcus.

While many associate the track with the rock-and-roll energy of , it was originally written for Simone in 1964 by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott, and Sol Marcus. Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood