Playlist: The Very Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• 1
  Ain’t Got No – I Got Life
  2:57
• 2
  To Love Somebody
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Sunday in Savannah
  3:16
• 4
  Mississippi Goddam
  6:54
• 5
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Here Comes the Sun
  3:35
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Suzanne
  4:20
  3.0 ★
• 8
  I Loves You Porgy
  3:27
• 9
  Seems I’m Never Tired Loving You
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 10
  My Man’s Gone Now
  4:17
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
  4:49
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
  5:16
  2.6 ★
• 13
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  5:47
• 14
  I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
  3:07
  4.4 ★

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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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Nina Simone 1997

Release credits

• Al Schackman
  acoustic guitar [13], bass [13], classical guitar [13], guitar [7, 11], sitar [13]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1], timpani [1]
• Bruce Somerfeld
  executive [12-13]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [4, 8]
• Carl Lynch
  guitar [1]
• Danny Davis
  producer [2, 10, 14]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [12]
• Don Alias
  drums (drum set) [2, 7, 11], percussion [11]
• Doris Willingham
  background vocals [7, 11]
• Edwin Begley
  recording [3, 6, 8, 12-13]
• Eric Gale
  guitar [1]
• Ernest Hayes
  organ [1]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [1]
• Gene A Perla
  bass [7, 11-12], electric bass guitar [7]
• Gene Taylor
  electric bass guitar [4, 8]
• Harold Johnson
  trumpet [1]
• Harold Wheeler
  arranger [6], conductor [6], producer [6]
• Henry Young
  guitar [1]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [1], conductor [1]
• Jerry Jemmott
  electric bass guitar [1]
• Jimmy Wisner
  arranger [2], conductor [2]
• Joe René
  producer [3, 8]
• Joe Shepley
  trumpet [1]
• Mark Hartry
  mix [14]
• Mickey Crofford
  recording [10]
• Mike Moran
  recording [2, 7, 11]
• Nadi Qamar
  other instruments [12, 12-13, 13]
• Nat Shapiro
  producer [6]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [6-7, 9, 11-13], conductor [7, 11], lead vocals [1-3, 6-8, 11-13], piano [1-4, 7-9, 11-13], producer [12-13], vocal [1, 4, 9, 14]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [1]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [5], recording [1-2, 7, 9-11]
• Rudy Stevenson
  electric guitar [4, 8]
• Sam Waymon
  instrument [4], organ [8]
• Sammy Lowe
  arranger [14], conductor [14]
• Specs Powell
  percussion [1], tambourine [1], vibraphone [1]
• Stuart Scharf
  guitar [11]
• Virdia Crawford
  background vocals [7, 11]
• Weldon Irvine
  organ [7]
• Wilbur "Dud" Bascomb
  trumpet [1]
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Issues

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  Playlist: The Very Best of Nina Simone

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  15 September 2009