The Essential Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Other Woman
  2:58
  4.6 ★
• 2
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:35
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Trouble in Mind
  5:30
• 5
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:54
  4.6 ★
• 6
  See-Line Woman
  2:36
  2.8 ★
• 7
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 8
  I Put a Spell on You
  2:35
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Ne me quitte pas
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Strange Fruit
  3:31
  3.6 ★
• 11
  Four Women
  4:26
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Sinnerman
  10:21
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Do I Move You?
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:30
  4.1 ★
• 2
  I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Glory of Love
  2:08
  2.0 ★
• 4
  To Love Somebody
  2:38
  3.9 ★
• 5
  Do What You Gotta Do
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  2:08
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
  5:45
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
  3:06
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Revolution
  4:39
  2.5 ★
• 10
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Who Knows Where the Time Goes
  8:11
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Here Comes the Sun
  3:33
  4.4 ★
• 13
  Just Like a Woman
  4:50
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
  5:15
  2.8 ★
• 15
  Rich Girl
  3:13
  2.5 ★
• 16
  A Single Woman
  3:32
  3.0 ★

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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
  guitar [2.9, 1.4], harmonica [11]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Andy Newmark
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.5, 2.9, 1.13], timpani [5]
• Bob Blake
  producer [1]
• Bob Bushnell
  bass [1.13, 2.1]
• Bobby Hamilton
  background vocals [5], drums (drum set) [4-5, 11], membranophone [5]
• Bruce Somerfeld
  executive [14]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Buddy Lucas
  harmonica [2.1, 1.13], tenor saxophone [2.1, 1.13]
• Carl Lynch
  guitar [5]
• Chris White
  bass [4]
• Danny Davis
  producer [2.1-2, 2.4, 1.13]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [14]
• Don Alias
  drums (drum set) [4, 9], percussion [9]
• Edwin Begley
  recording [6-7, 11-14]
• Eric Gale
  guitar [1.13, 2.1, 2.5, 2.9]
• Ernest Calabria
  guitar [9]
• Ernest Hayes
  organ [2.1, 2.5, 1.13]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [5]
• Gene A Perla
  bass [14], electric bass guitar [9]
• Gene Taylor
  electric bass guitar [6]
• Hal Mooney
  arranger [8-9], conductor [8-9], producer [2-3, 6, 8-12]
• Harold Johnson
  trumpet [5]
• Harold Wheeler
  arranger [12-13], conductor [12-13], producer [12-13]
• Henry Young
  guitar [5]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [1.7, 2.5], conductor [1.7, 2.5]
• Horace Ott's Orchestra
  performing orchestra [7]
• Jack Gold
  producer [1]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1]
• Jerry Friedman
  electric guitar [15], solo [15]
• Jerry Jemmott
  electric bass guitar [5]
• Jimmy Wisner
  arranger [4], conductor [4]
• Joe René
  producer [5-7]
• Joe Shepley
  trumpet [5]
• Lisle Atkinson
  background vocals [5], bass guitar [11], double bass [5, 11], percussion [11]
• Mark Hartry
  mix [2]
• Mickey Crofford
  recording [2.1, 1.13]
• Mike Moran
  recording [4]
• Nadi Qamar
  other instruments [14]
• Nat Shapiro
  producer [12-13]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [2.8, 2.11-14, 1.2, 1.5-6], conductor [6], lead vocals [1.5, 1.13, 2.1, 2.4-7, 2.11-12, 2.14], piano [1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.1, 2.4-8, 2.11, 2.14], producer [14], vocal [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-9, 1.11, 2.2, 2.8]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [5]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [10], recording [1.13, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8]
• Rudy Stevenson
  background vocals [5], electric guitar [6], flute [11], guitar [1.5, 1.8-9, 1.11, 1.13, 2.1]
• Sam Ellis
  performer [1]
• Sam Waymon
  organ [6]
• Sammy Lowe
  arranger [2], conductor [2]
• Specs Powell
  percussion [5], tambourine [5], vibraphone [5]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [3]
• Stuart Scharf
  guitar [9]
• Tom Berman
  artists and repertoire [5]
• Wilbur "Dud" Bascomb
  trumpet [5]
• Will Lee
  electric bass guitar [15]
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Issues

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  The Essential Nina Simone

  2x CD
  15 March 2011