Songs to Sing: The Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:37
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:22
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  4:39
• 4
  The House of the Rising Sun
  6:55
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Just in Time
  4:36
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:42
• 8
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 9
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:08
• 10
  Mood Indigo
  4:01
  5.0 ★
• 11
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:09
  3.5 ★
• 12
  For All We Know
  4:00
• 13
  No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  4:04
• 14
  After You’ve Gone
  5:39
• 15
  I’ll Look Around
  2:44
• 16
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  3:25
• 17
  Central Park Blues
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 18
  When I Was in My Prime
  4:16
• CD 2
• 1
  To Be Young Gifted & Black
  5:05
• 2
  Ain’t No Use
  2:45
• 3
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Zungo
  2:33
• 5
  Little Girl Blue
  4:17
  4.0 ★
• 6
  African Mailman
  3:09
• 7
  He Needs Me
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  3:44
• 9
  Good Bait
  5:26
  3.6 ★
• 10
  It’s Cold Out Here
  5:29
• 11
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• 12
  The Assignment Song
  4:54
  1.0 ★
• 13
  I Sing Just to Know I’m Alive
  2:32
  1.5 ★
• 14
  Gin House Blues
  4:56
• 15
  The Other Woman
  4:16
• 16
  Four Women
  8:53
• 17
  You Took My Teeth
  1:09
• 18
  Pirate Jenny
  4:44

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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 [15], guitar [1.15, 1.18, 2.4]
• Al Shackman
  bass [1.6, 2.15, 2.17-18]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.5-7, 2.9, 2.11, 1.1-2, 1.8-12, 1.17]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [1.6, 2.15, 2.17-18]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 1.15]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Chris White
  bass [15], double bass [1.15, 2.4]
• Gene Taylor
  double bass [5]
• Henry Young
  guitar [5]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11, 1.8-10], double bass [1.1-2, 1.11-12, 1.17, 2.6-7]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [4], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.16, 1.1-5, 1.8, 1.10-11, 1.14], piano [1.1-2, 1.5-6, 1.8-12, 1.17, 2.3-7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15, 2.17-18], vocal [2.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12, 1.18]
• Paolo Hewitt
  liner notes
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [2.15, 2.17-18, 1.6]
• Sam Waymon
  organ [5], percussion [5]

Issues

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  Songs to Sing: The Best of Nina Simone

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

  2x CD
  29 January 2010