The Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1: In The Studio
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 3
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:10
  1.0 ★
• 4
  Mood Indigo
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 5
  He Needs Me
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 6
  African Mailman
  3:10
  1.0 ★
• 7
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:22
  4.8 ★
• 8
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Good Bait
  5:27
  3.0 ★
• 10
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 11
  Central Park Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 12
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:50
  2.6 ★
• 14
  Little Girl Blue
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• CD 2: Live
• 1
  The House of the Rising Sun
  6:57
  1.5 ★
• 2
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  3:51
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  4:41
• 4
  Ain’t No Use
  2:46
• 5
  The Assignment Song
  4:55
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Gin House Blues
  4:55
• 7
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:44
  3.0 ★
• 8
  See Line Woman
  3:44
• 9
  The Other Woman
  4:14
• 10
  Four Women
  4:51
• 11
  I Sing Just to Know That I’m Alive
  2:31
  1.3 ★

More by Nina Simone

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 Shackman
  bass [7, 9-10]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1-14]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [7, 9-10]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2-4, 9, 12-14], double bass [1, 5-8, 10-11]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [1], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.7-8, 1.13-14, 2.1-6], piano [2.7, 2.9-10, 1.1-14], vocal [1.3, 1.10, 2.10]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [7, 9-10]

Issues

• 

  T
  (Combined release view)
• 

  T
  The Essential Collection

  2x CD
  2003
• 

  L
  Love Me or Leave Me (Essential Collection)

  2x CD
  2011