The Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:34
  3.9 ★
• 2
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:07
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out
  2:37
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair
  3:32
• 5
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:19
  4.6 ★
• 6
  The Other Woman
  2:56
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 9
  He Needs Me
  2:27
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Little Girl Blue
  4:15
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Just in Time
  6:35
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Mood Indigo
  3:59
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Good Bait
  5:25
  3.6 ★
• 14
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:44
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:38
• 16
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 17
  Exactly Like You
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 18
  African Mailman
  3:06
• 19
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:07
• 20
  For All We Know
  3:57
• 21
  House of the Rising Sun
  4:29
  5.0 ★
• 22
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:44
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Gin House Blues
  3:00
• 24
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Solitaire
  3:22
  5.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  I Got It Bad
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Blue Prelude
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Work Song
  2:33
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Just Say I Love Him
  6:31
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Come on Back, Jack
  2:13
• 6
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:11
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Summertime
  2:45
• 8
  I Love to Love
  3:22
  3.0 ★
• 9
  That’s Him Over There
  2:29
  4.4 ★
• 10
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:08
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 12
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:53
  3.6 ★
• 13
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:07
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Memphis in June
  2:35
  5.0 ★
• 15
  It Don’t Mean a Thing
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:42
• 17
  Since My Love Has Gone
  2:46
• 18
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:06
  4.0 ★
• 19
  I’ll Look Around
  5:01
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Under the Lowest
  5:25
• 21
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:06
  4.5 ★
• 24
  You Can Have Him
  5:54
• 25
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:47
  3.5 ★
• 26
  Central Park Blues
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Satin Doll
  3:34
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Theme From “Middle of the Night“
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Fine and Mellow
  3:26
• 4
  If Only for Tonight
  3:00
• 5
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  8:16
  1.0 ★
• 6
  He Was Too Good to Me
  5:02
• 7
  Brown Baby
  5:43
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Return Home
  5:27
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Something to Live For
  2:53
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Hey, Buddy Bolden
  2:24
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Merry Mending
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Solitude
  3:42
  5.0 ★
• 13
  No Good Man
  3:36
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Nina’s Blues
  6:09
• 15
  I Like the Sunrise
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Children Go Where I Send You
  7:47
• 17
  You Better Know It
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Trouble in Mind
  5:41
• 19
  If He Changed My Name
  4:00
• 20
  Zungo
  3:01
• 21
  Li’l Liza Jane
  4:32
• 22
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:49
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Summertime “Instrumental“
  2:55
• 24
  You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
  5:23

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Nina Simone Sings the Blues

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
  guitar [3.13-14, 3.18, 3.21-22, 3.24, 1.21-22, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.14, 2.19, 2.23]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [3.3, 3.8, 3.23, 2.7, 2.20, 2.24, 2.26, 1.1-2, 1.5-10, 1.12-20], membranophone [3.8, 3.23, 2.7, 2.20]
• Bob Blake
  producer [2.7, 2.20, 2.24, 3.3, 3.8, 3.23, 1.6, 1.15-17]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [1.21-22, 3.13-14, 3.18, 3.21-22, 3.24, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.14, 2.19, 2.23]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [2.3-4, 2.8, 2.14, 2.19, 2.23, 3.13, 3.22, 1.22]
• Chris White
  bass [1.21-22, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.14, 2.19, 2.23, 3.13-14, 3.18, 3.21-22, 3.24]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [3]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [1.24-25, 3.2, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9-12, 2.18, 2.21-22]
• Jack Gold
  producer [3.3, 3.8, 3.23, 1.6, 1.15-17, 2.7, 2.20, 2.24]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.6-8, 1.10, 1.12-17, 1.19, 2.7, 2.20, 2.24, 3.3, 3.8, 3.23], double bass [2.26, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.9, 1.18, 1.20]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [23]
• Nina Simone
  lead vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.11-12, 2.15, 2.24, 3.3, 3.10, 3.12, 3.15, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.21-22], piano [2.2-4, 2.6-12, 2.14, 2.18-24, 2.26, 1.1-2, 1.5-10, 1.12-20, 1.22, 1.24-25, 3.2-3, 3.8, 3.13-14, 3.18, 3.21-24], vocal [1.6, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.24-25, 3.2, 3.13-14, 3.18, 3.21-22, 3.24, 2.1-4, 2.7-10, 2.14, 2.18-19, 2.21-23]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [3.12, 2.5, 2.16], conductor [2.5, 2.16, 3.12]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [3.2, 1.24-25, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9-12, 2.18, 2.21-22]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [3.2, 1.24-25, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9-12, 2.18, 2.21-22]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [2.17, 3.4, 1.3], producer [16]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [12]
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  The Best of Nina Simone

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  21 November 2025