An earlier version of this song exists, recorded live at The Village Gate, but was never used on the Colpix album Nina at the Village Gate (1962).
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The version they perform on the album is drawn largely from Nina Simone's rendition on her 1965 album Pastel Blues.
This Symbolist painting in pastel blues and pale flesh tones, it depicts a beautiful female nude reclining next to an assortment of flowers and holding to her head a small spray of two rosebuds.