Blackbird: The Colpix Recordings (1959 - 1963)

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Amazing Nina Simone (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Blue Prelude
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:08
  4.0 ★
• 5
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:55
  3.8 ★
• 6
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:10
  5.0 ★
• 7
  That’s Him Over There
  2:31
  4.2 ★
• 8
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Theme from “Middle of the Night”
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:12
  3.2 ★
• 12
  Solitaire
  3:26
  5.0 ★
• 13
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:06
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It)
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Spring Is Here
  3:57
• 16
  That’s All
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 17
  The Man With a Horn
  3:17
  5.0 ★
• CD 2: Nina Simone at Town Hall (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Exactly Like You
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Other Woman
  2:59
  4.6 ★
• 4
  Under the Lowest
  5:35
• 5
  You Can Have Him
  5:51
• 6
  Summertime (instrumental)
  2:55
• 7
  Summertime
  2:47
• 8
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Return Home
  5:29
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:39
• 11
  Fine and Mellow
  3:26
• 12
  Under the Lowest (short version) (edit)
  3:10
• 13
  You Can Have Him
  3:35
• CD 3: Nina Simone at Newport (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Trouble in Mind
  5:42
• 2
  Blues for Porgy
  5:12
  1.5 ★
• 3
  Little Liza Jane
  4:35
• 4
  You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  5:23
• 5
  Flo Me La
  7:12
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Nina’s Blues
  6:11
• 7
  In the Evening by the Moonlight
  6:16
• 8
  Since My Love Has Gone
  2:48
• 9
  If Only for Tonight
  3:02
• 10
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Trouble in Mind (edit)
  2:11
• 12
  In the Evening by the Moonlight (edit)
  2:10
• CD 4: Forbidden Fruit (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:08
  4.6 ★
• 2
  No Good Man
  3:39
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Gin House Blues
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 4
  I’ll Look Around
  5:04
  3.6 ★
• 5
  I Love to Love
  3:24
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Work Song
  2:34
  4.6 ★
• 7
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Just Say I Love Him
  6:34
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Memphis in June
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Gimme a Pigfoot
  2:16
• 12
  Tain’t Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
  4:40
• 13
  Try a Little Tenderness
  3:21
• 14
  Lonesome Valley
  3:39
• 15
  Everytime We Say Goodbye
  3:27
• 16
  My Ship
  3:33
• 17
  Golden Earrings
  4:47
• 18
  Od Yesh Homa
  3:15
• 19
  Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Porgy, I Is Your Woman Now
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• CD 5: Nina Simone at the Village Gate (Expanded Edition}
• 1
  Just in Time
  6:34
  3.0 ★
• 2
  He Was Too Good to Me
  4:52
• 3
  House of the Rising Sun
  4:37
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  8:17
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Brown Baby
  5:48
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Zungo
  3:00
• 7
  If He Changed My Name
  3:59
• 8
  Children Go Where I Send You
  7:49
• 9
  Eretz Zavat Chalav U’Dvash
  7:12
• 10
  Vaynikehu
  2:21
• 11
  Sinner Man
  8:00
  3.0 ★
• 12
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  5:27
• CD 6: Nina Simone Sings Ellington! (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:50
  3.6 ★
• 2
  I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
  4:06
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Hey, Buddy Bolden
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Merry Mending
  2:34
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Something to Live For
  2:54
  3.0 ★
• 6
  You Better Know It
  2:24
  4.0 ★
• 7
  I Like the Sunrise
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Solitude
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:10
  4.6 ★
• 10
  Satin Doll
  3:37
  4.6 ★
• 11
  It Don’t Mean a Thing
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Come on Back Jack
  2:16
• 13
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:45
• 14
  Chain Gang (Work Song)
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• CD 7: Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall
• 1
  Black Swan (from “The Medium”)
  6:04
• 2
  Theme from Samson and Delilah
  5:48
• 3
  If You Knew
  3:28
• 4
  Theme From Sayonara
  3:17
• 5
  The Twelfth of Never
  3:27
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Will I Find My Love Today
  6:41
• 7
  Medley: The Other Woman/Cotton Eyed Joe
  7:24
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Will I Find a Resting Place
  4:39
• 9
  Little Liza Jane
  4:43
• CD 8: Folksy Nina (Expanded Edition)
• 1
  Silver City Bound
  5:05
  4.0 ★
• 2
  When I Was a Young Girl
  6:05
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Eretz Zavat Chalav U’Dvash
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Lass of the Low Country
  6:08
  3.0 ★
• 5
  The Young Knight
  5:33
  3.6 ★
• 6
  Vaynikehu
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Mighty Lak a Rose
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Hush Little Baby
  4:08
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Work Song
  10:24
• 10
  Blackbird
  3:52

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [5.3, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5-7, 3.1-7, 4.1-10]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1-11], membranophone [4, 6-7, 9]
• Bob Blake
  producer [1-11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [4.1-10, 3.1-7, 5.3]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [1-10]
• Chris White
  bass [5.3, 3.1-7, 4.1-10]
• Dick Alderson
  recording [1-3, 5-7]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [10]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [1-12]
• Jack Gold
  producer [2-11]
• Jack Lewis
  producer [8.10, 7.1-3, 7.5-7]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1-11]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [1]
• Lisle Atkinson
  double bass [1, 3, 5-7]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [8.10, 7.1-3, 7.5-7], lead vocals [7.5, 6.2-3, 6.7-8, 6.11, 4.3, 4.6, 4.10-11, 4.15, 4.19, 5.3, 1.2, 1.5, 1.11, 2.5, 2.10-11], piano [7.2, 1.1-12, 2.1-11, 4.1-10, 8.6, 3.1-7], vocal [8.6, 2.1-3, 2.7-8, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-10, 1.12, 3.1-7, 6.2, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5-7, 4.1-2, 4.4-9]
• Phil Orlando
  guitar [1, 3, 5-7]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [6.8, 6.12-13, 3.12], conductor [6.8, 6.12-13, 3.12]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [1-12]
• Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders
  membranophone [1, 3, 5-7], percussion [6]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1-12]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [8-10], producer [3.12, 6.13]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [8]
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Issues

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  Blackbird: The Colpix Recordings (1959 - 1963)

  8x CD
  29 March 2024