Nina’s Blues 1959–1962

Tracklist

• CD 1: Little Girl Blue / The Amazing Nina Simone
• 1
  Mood Indigo
  4:00
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 3
  He Needs Me
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Little Girl Blue
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:20
  4.6 ★
• 6
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:35
  3.9 ★
• 7
  Good Bait
  5:26
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 9
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:44
  5.0 ★
• 10
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:08
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Central Park Blues
  6:51
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Blue Prelude
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:08
  4.0 ★
• 16
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:55
  3.6 ★
• 17
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:11
  5.0 ★
• 18
  That’s Him Over There
  2:31
  4.4 ★
• 19
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Theme From “Middle of the Night”
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:13
  3.4 ★
• 23
  Solitaire
  3:24
  5.0 ★
• CD 2: Nina Simone at Town Hall / Nina Simone Sings Ellington
• 1
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:32
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Exactly Like You
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Other Woman
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Under the Lowest
  5:33
• 5
  You Can Have Him
  5:53
• 6
  Summertime
  2:53
• 7
  Summertime (vocal)
  2:47
• 8
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Return Home
  5:27
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:37
• 11
  Fine and Mellow
  3:30
• 12
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:51
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Got It Bad
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Hey, Buddy Bolden
  2:28
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Merry Mending
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Something to Live For
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 17
  You Better Know It
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 18
  I’ll Like the Sunrise
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Solitude
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 20
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:14
  4.5 ★
• 21
  Satin Doll
  3:38
  4.5 ★
• 22
  It Don’t Mean a Thing
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• CD 3: Nina at Newport / Forbidden Fruit
• 1
  Trouble in Mind
  5:41
• 2
  Blues for Porgy
  5:11
  1.5 ★
• 3
  Little Liza Jane
  4:33
• 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
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:09
  4.5 ★
• 9
  No Good Man
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Gin House Blues
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 11
  I’ll Look Around
  5:03
  3.5 ★
• 12
  I Love to Love
  3:23
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Work Song
  2:34
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Just Say I Love Him (English version)
  6:34
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Memphis in June
  2:38
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• CD 4: Nina Simone at the Village Gate / 45's
• 1
  Just in Time
  6:36
  3.0 ★
• 2
  He Was Too Good to Me
  5:02
• 3
  House of the Rising Sun
  4:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  8:16
  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
  African Mailman
  3:11
• 10
  For All We Know
  4:03
• 11
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  2:39
• 12
  If Only for Tonight
  3:04
• 13
  Nobody Knows You When You Re Down and Out
  2:42
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Come On Back Jack
  2:17
• 15
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:44

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [3.1-17, 4.3]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [4.9-11, 1.1-11, 2.1-11], membranophone [4, 6-7, 9]
• Bob Blake
  producer [1-11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [3.1-17, 4.3]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [8-17]
• Chris White
  bass [3.1-17, 4.3]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [13]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [12-23]
• Jack Gold
  producer [2-11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7-9, 1.11, 2.1-11], double bass [4.9-11, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.10]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [8]
• Nina Simone
  lead vocals [2.5, 2.10-11, 2.13-14, 2.18-19, 2.22, 1.1-6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.13, 1.16, 1.22, 3.10, 3.13, 3.17, 4.3], piano [2.1-11, 3.1-17, 1.1-23, 4.9-11], vocal [4.10-11, 2.1-3, 2.7-8, 2.13, 1.12, 1.14-15, 1.17-21, 1.23, 3.1-9, 3.11-16]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [4.14-15, 2.19], conductor [2.19, 4.14-15]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [12-23]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [12-23]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [12-13], producer [15]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [19]
• Show all credits (17)

Issues

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  Nina’s Blues 1959–1962

  4x CD
  2021