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Posted By: FreddyHeadey
23-Oct-25 - 05:35 AM
Thread Name: Origin: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free
Subject: RE: Origin: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free
Freedom Songs - 2014 The Documentary - BBC World Service
"Immortalised by Nina Simone, I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free, was recorded in the early 60s by Jazz pianist Billy Taylor for his young daughter.
Candace Piette talks to Kim Taylor Thomson, to Nina Simone’s guitarist and to poets and writers and singers about what the song meant when it was first written and what resonance it has now in contemporary America."