The Essential Album

Tracklist

• CD 1: Studio Recordings
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Mood Indigo
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 5
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 6
  Central Park Blues
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 7
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:48
  2.6 ★
• 9
  Little Girl Blue
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Four Women
  4:26
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 12
  He Needs Me
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:20
  4.8 ★
• CD 2: Live Recordings
• 1
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  6:13
• 2
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  6:20
• 3
  Sugar in My Bowl
  3:38
• 4
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:47
• 5
  See-Line Woman
  5:11
• 6
  Backlash Blues
  3:17
• 7
  After You’ve Gone
  5:40
• 8
  Do What You Gotta Do
  4:08
• CD 3: Live Recordings / Bonus Tracks
• 1
  I Sing Just to Know That I’m Alive
  3:45
• 2
  The Other Woman
  4:19
• 3
  For a While
  5:39
• 4
  No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  4:27
• 5
  Ain’t No Use
  2:46
• 6
  I Loves You Porgy
  5:03
• 7
  Four Women
  4:53
• 8
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  4:29

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The Diva Series

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Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  harmonica [10]
• Al Shackman
  bass [2.5, 3.1-3, 3.7]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1-9, 12-13]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [2.5, 3.1-3, 3.7]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [10]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [11], conductor [11]
• Horace Ott's Orchestra
  performing orchestra [11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [3-4, 7-9], double bass [1-2, 5-6, 12-13]
• Lisle Atkinson
  bass guitar [10], double bass [10], percussion [10]
• Nina Simone
  lead vocals [3.4-5, 2.2, 2.7, 1.1-4, 1.8-9, 1.12-13], piano [3.1-3, 3.7, 2.5, 1.1-13], vocal [3.7, 1.5, 1.10-11]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 3.1-3, 3.7]
• Rudy Stevenson
  flute [10], guitar [10]

Issues

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  The Essential Album

  3x CD
  July 2003