Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free — PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture

Billy Taylor originally composed this gospel jazz song as I Wish I Knew in 1952. He was spurred to write the tune when his daughter Kim came home from school singing a spiritual. The song served as an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement in America in the 1960s. Nina’s version was recorded in 1967 on her Silk & […]

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