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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sorry, but Nina Simone's version is NOT the original! The original is the immortal 1956 version by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and it is infinitely better - indeed, unsurpassable. Technically, the original was an earlier version he did a year or two before, but the 1956 one was the one that was released and which gained him instant notoriety.