The Essential Album

Compilation by Nina Simone

Released July 2003

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Studio Recordings
  • 1
    My Baby Just Cares for Me
    3:38
    3.9 ★
  • 2
    I Loves You Porgy
    4:10
    3.5 ★
  • 3
    Don’t Smoke in Bed
    3:11
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Mood Indigo
    4:01
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    For All We Know
    4:01
  • 6
    Central Park Blues
    3:04
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    You’ll Never Walk Alone
    3:46
    5.0 ★
  • 8
    Plain Gold Ring
    3:48
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    Little Girl Blue
    4:18
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    Four Women
    4:26
    3.5 ★
  • 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
    4.6 ★
  • 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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