Songs to Sing: The Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 2
  See Line Woman
  2:40
  2.6 ★
• 3
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:38
  3.9 ★
• 4
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:22
  4.6 ★
• 5
  Strange Fruit
  3:28
  4.5 ★
• 6
  I Put a Spell on You
  2:36
  4.3 ★
• 7
  Break Down and Let It All Out
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  4:40
• 9
  The House of the Rising Sun
  6:57
  2.0 ★
• 10
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:43
• 12
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 13
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:10
• 14
  Mood Indigo
  4:02
  5.0 ★
• 15
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 16
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 17
  Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair
  3:29
  3.5 ★
• 18
  Four Women
  4:28
  3.5 ★
• 19
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:40
  3.5 ★
• 20
  No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  4:04
• CD 2
• 1
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  5:06
• 2
  After You’ve Gone
  5:40
• 3
  I’ll Look Around
  2:45
• 4
  When I Was in My Prime
  4:17
• 5
  Ain’t No Use
  2:46
• 6
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:47
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Little Girl Blue
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 8
  African Mailman
  3:10
• 9
  Central Park Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 10
  He Needs Me
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Good Bait
  5:28
  3.6 ★
• 12
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• 13
  The Assignment Song
  4:55
  1.0 ★
• 14
  I Sing Just to Know I’m Alive
  2:33
  1.5 ★
• 15
  Gin House Blues
  4:56
• 16
  The Other Woman
  4:17
• 17
  You Took My Teeth
  1:09
• 18
  Pirate Jenny
  4:45
• 19
  Zungo
  2:33

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Nina Simone Sings the Blues 1967

Pastel Blues

Pastel Blues 1965

The Greatest Hits

The Greatest Hits 2003

The Diva Series

The Diva Series 2003

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

Nina Simone

Nina Simone 1997

Release credits

• Al Schackman
  electric guitar [3], guitar [3-4, 19], harmonica [18]
• Al Shackman
  bass [1.10, 2.16-18]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2.6-12, 1.3-4, 1.12-16]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [1.10, 2.16-18]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [1.7, 1.18, 2.3, 2.19]
• Chris White
  bass [3], double bass [3, 19]
• Hal Mooney
  arranger [6], conductor [6], producer [2, 5-7, 17-19]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [1, 7], conductor [1, 7]
• Horace Ott's Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2.6-7, 2.11-12, 1.12-14], double bass [1.3-4, 1.15-16, 2.8-10]
• Lisle Atkinson
  bass guitar [18], double bass [7, 18], percussion [18]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [2, 9, 17], conductor [2], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.5, 2.7, 2.10, 2.12-13, 2.15, 1.3-4, 1.8-9, 1.12, 1.14-15], piano [2.6-12, 2.16-19, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.12-18], vocal [1.1-2, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.16-18, 2.4, 2.19]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [2.16-18, 1.10]
• Rudy Stevenson
  flute [18], guitar [6-7, 18]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [19]

Issues

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  Songs to Sing: The Best of Nina Simone

  2x CD
  2006
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  S
  Songs to Sing: The Best of Nina Simone

  2x CD
  29 January 2010