Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

O post da Nina Simone me fez lembrar dessa música que atravessa décadas fazendo sucesso com diferentes intérpretes. Aí vão alguns exemplos.

Da descrição do video do Animals no youtube:

“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus for the singer/pianist Nina Simone, who first recorded it in 1964. “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” has been recorded or performed by many artists, and is widely known by the 1965 blues rock hit recording from The Animals.
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The Animals’ lead singer Eric Burdon would later say of the song, “It was never considered pop material, but it somehow got passed on to us and we fell in love with it immediately.”[4] The Animals gave it one of their trademark R&B-unto-rock workups, speeding up the tempo and starting off with a memorable electric guitar-and-organ doubled riff from Hilton Valentine and Alan Price, that was picked out and expanded from an element that originally appeared in the Simone recording’s outro. This riff immediately led into Burdon’s trademark deep, impassioned vocal line:
Baby, do you understand me now?
If sometimes, you see that I’m mad …
Don’t you know no one alive can always be an angel,
When everything goes wrong, you see some bad.
(group harmony) But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good:
(just Burdon) Oh Lord! Please don’t let me be misunderstood …

The group gained a trans-Atlantic hit in early 1965 from their rendition, rising to number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, number 15 on the U.S. pop singles chart, and number 4 in Canada.

This single was ranked by Rolling Stone at #315 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” – Wiki