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The song was composed by Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott, and Sol Marcus, and was initially recorded by Nina Simone in 1964 for her album Broadway-Blues-Ballads. The track became widely covered by various artists, with notable transatlantic hit versions released by the Animals in 1965 as a blues-rock interpretation and by Santa Esmeralda in 1977 as a disco arrangement. Elvis Costello's new wave rendition in 1986 also achieved commercial success in Britain and Ireland.
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