Essential Original Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Mood Indigo
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:15
  3.0 ★
• 4
  He Needs Me
  2:32
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Little Girl Blue
  4:21
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:24
  4.8 ★
• 7
  Good Bait
  5:30
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:55
  2.6 ★
• 9
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 10
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:13
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Central Park Blues (instrumental)
  6:53
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:52
  3.6 ★
• 13
  I Got It Bad
  4:09
  2.5 ★
• 14
  Hey, Buddy Bolden
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Merry Mending
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Something to Live For
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 17
  You Better Know It
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 18
  I Like the Sunrise (From the Liberian Suite)
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Solitude
  3:48
  5.0 ★
• 20
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:14
  4.6 ★
• 21
  Satin Doll
  3:39
  4.6 ★
• 22
  It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Exactly Like You
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Other Woman
  2:55
  4.6 ★
• 4
  Under the Lowest
  5:24
• 5
  You Can Have Him
  5:51
• 6
  Summertime (instrumental)
  2:55
• 7
  Summertime
  2:42
• 8
  Cotton‐Eyed Joe
  2:54
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Return Home
  5:23
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:31
• 11
  Fine and Mellow
  3:32
• 12
  Blue Prelude
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:11
  4.0 ★
• 16
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:57
  3.8 ★
• 17
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:12
  5.0 ★
• 18
  That’s Him Over There
  2:33
  4.2 ★
• 19
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Theme From “The Middle of the Night”
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:15
  3.2 ★
• 23
  Solitaire
  3:26
  5.0 ★
• 24
  Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  Trouble in Mind
  5:43
• 2
  Porgy
  5:11
  1.5 ★
• 3
  Little Liza Jane
  4:34
• 4
  You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
  5:25
• 5
  Flo Me La
  7:12
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Nina’s Blues
  6:11
• 7
  Evening by the Moonlight
  6:16
• 8
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:11
  4.6 ★
• 9
  No Good Man
  3:41
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Gin House Blues
  3:06
  3.0 ★
• 11
  I’ll Look Around
  5:06
  3.6 ★
• 12
  I Love to Love
  3:26
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Work Song
  2:37
  4.6 ★
• 14
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:54
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Just Say I Love Him
  6:37
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Memphis in June
  2:41
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:47
  3.0 ★

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The Greatest Hits

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The Diva Series

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Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972

Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972 1998

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [1-17]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2.1-11, 1.1-11], membranophone [4, 6-7, 9]
• Bob Blake
  producer [1-11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [1-17]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [8-17]
• Chris White
  bass [1-17]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [24]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [12-23]
• Jack Gold
  producer [2-11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.7-9, 1.11, 2.1-11], double bass [1, 4, 6, 10]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [8]
• Nina Simone
  lead vocals [1.1-6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.13-14, 1.18-19, 1.22, 2.5, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.22, 3.10, 3.13, 3.17], piano [1.1-11, 2.1-23, 3.1-17], vocal [2.1-3, 2.7-8, 2.12, 2.14-15, 2.17-21, 2.23, 1.13, 3.1-9, 3.11-16]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [19], conductor [19]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [12-23]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [12-23]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [24]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [19]
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Issues

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  Essential Original Albums

  3x CD
  2016