Nina Simone: Blues For Mama

"Blues For Mama" by Nina Simone; Recording session: August 25, 1967 in Berlin (DE) Funkausstellung.

Gala evening on German television for the inauguration of color broadcasting. The gala was a two-days live show from the 25th Funkausstellung IFA in Berlin intended to showcase the new technology of colour TV and international artistes including Gigliola Cinquetti, Freddy, Juliette Greco, Mahalia Jackson, Al Martino, Mireille Mathieu, Ulrik and Ulla Neumann, Ester and Abi Ofarim, Nini Rosso, Sonny and Cher.

The evening was rebroadcast 30 years after, in 1997.
Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), production
Nina Simone piano, vocal