The Essential Nina Simone Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:39
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:23
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Mood Indigo
  4:02
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Central Park Blues
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Little Girl Blue
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 7
  See Line Woman
  3:47
• 8
  Good Bait
  5:28
  3.6 ★
• 9
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:47
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• 11
  African Mailman
  3:10
• 12
  When I Was a Young Girl
  4:45
• 13
  Please Read Me
  3:10
• 14
  For a While
  5:27
• 15
  The House of the Rising Sun
  6:54
  2.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand
  3:11
• 2
  Ain’t No Use
  2:46
• 3
  To Love Somebody
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 4
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  5:05
• 5
  Blues
  4:42
• 6
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Zungo
  2:34
• 8
  The Assignment Song
  4:55
  1.0 ★
• 9
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 10
  I’ll Look Around
  2:45
• 11
  After You’ve Gone
  5:39
• 12
  Pirate Jenny
  4:45
• 13
  He Needs Me
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 14
  When I Was in My Prime
  4:17
• 15
  Fodder on Her Wings
  5:08
  3.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  The Other Woman
  4:18
• 2
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  3:52
  2.0 ★
• 3
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  3:26
• 4
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  3:47
• 5
  Four Women
  4:51
• 6
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:44
• 7
  Backlash Blues
  2:46
• 8
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Ne me quitte pas
  5:15
• 10
  Sunday in Savannah
  2:25
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  4:40
• 12
  No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  4:07
• 13
  Gin House Blues
  4:57
• 14
  You Took My Teeth
  1:10
• 15
  I Sing Just to Know That I’m Alive
  2:32
  1.5 ★

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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
  electric guitar [5, 10], guitar [2.5, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14, 3.10]
• Al Shackman
  bass [2.12, 3.1, 3.5, 3.8, 3.14]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.6, 2.9, 2.13, 1.1-6, 1.8-11]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [3.1, 3.5, 3.8, 3.14, 2.12]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 2.7, 2.10, 3.10]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [1.12-13, 3.9]
• Chris White
  bass [2.5, 2.10, 3.10], double bass [5, 7, 10]
• Gene Taylor
  double bass [3.9, 1.12-13]
• Henry Young
  guitar [1.12-13, 3.9]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2.1, 2.6, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8-10], double bass [1.1-2, 1.4-5, 1.11, 2.9, 2.13]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [15], lead vocals [1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15, 3.2, 3.9, 3.11, 3.13, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 2.13], piano [3.1, 3.5, 3.8-9, 3.14, 1.1-6, 1.8-13, 2.1, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.12-13], vocal [3.5, 3.9, 2.1, 2.7, 2.9, 2.14, 1.12-13]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.5, 3.8, 3.14, 2.12]
• Sam Waymon
  organ [1.12-13, 3.9], percussion [3.9, 1.12-13]

Issues

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  The Essential Nina Simone Collection

  3x CD
  6 September 2010