The Platinum Collection

Compilation by Nina Simone

Released 30 June 2017

jazz blues soul

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
My Baby Just Cares for Me
3:43
3.9 ★
2
Love Me or Leave Me
3:24
4.6 ★
3
Porgy (live)
5:08
1.5 ★
4
Mood Indigo
4:03
5.0 ★
5
Plain Gold Ring
3:51
3.0 ★
6
Don’t Smoke in Bed
3:13
4.0 ★
7
Central Park Blues
6:47
5.0 ★
8
Solitaire
3:25
5.0 ★
9
You’ve Been Gone Too Long
2:09
5.0 ★
10
Just Say I Love Him
6:27
11
Merry Mending
2:35
3.0 ★
12
Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
2:40
4.0 ★
13
Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
2:58
4.0 ★
14
Under the Lowest (live)
5:20
15
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2:43
16
Cotton Eyed Joe (live)
2:54
2.0 ★
17
Nina’s Blues (live)
6:09
18
It Don’t Mean a Thing
2:31
4.0 ★
19
Can’t Get Out of This Mood
2:30
4.0 ★
20
You’ll Never Walk Alone
3:47
5.0 ★
CD 2
1
I Loves You Porgy
4:09
3.5 ★
2
Forbidden Fruit
3:43
3.0 ★
3
African Mailman
3:08
4
He Needs Me
2:24
5.0 ★
5
Little Girl Blue
4:20
4.0 ★
6
Come on Back, Jack
2:14
7
No Good Man
3:36
4.0 ★
8
Brown Baby (live)
5:44
2.0 ★
9
I Love to Love
3:20
3.0 ★
10
Summertime (live)
5:36
11
It Might as Well Be Spring
3:52
3.6 ★
12
Bye Bye Blackbird (live)
8:17
1.0 ★
13
Hey, Buddy Bolden
2:29
3.0 ★
14
Solitude
3:46
5.0 ★
15
Stompin’ at the Savoy
2:07
4.0 ★
16
Wild Is the Wind (live)
3:31
17
Rags and Old Iron
4:04
4.5 ★
18
Willow Weep for Me
3:10
3.4 ★
19
Gin House Blues
3:00
3.0 ★
20
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
2:50
3.5 ★
CD 3
1
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
3:08
2
Work Song
2:32
4.5 ★
3
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
2:39
3.5 ★
4
Blue Prelude
3:18
4.0 ★
5
That’s Him Over There
2:28
4.4 ★
6
Children Go Where I Send You
2:49
4.0 ★
7
Theme From “Middle of the Night”
2:27
3.0 ★
8
Fine and Mellow (live)
3:21
9
You Better Know It
2:26
4.0 ★
10
Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair (live)
3:26
11
He Was Too Good to Me (live)
4:54
12
Something to Live For
2:56
3.0 ★
13
In the Evening by the Moonlight (live)
6:11
14
The Other Woman (live)
3:01
4.5 ★
15
Return Home (live)
5:14
16
For All We Know
3:59
17
Exactly Like You (live)
3:08
3.0 ★
18
Little Liza Jane (live)
4:32
19
The Gal From Joe’s
2:14
4.5 ★
20
I Like the Sunrise
3:01
3.0 ★

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Release credits

Al Schackman
guitar [3.2, 3.13, 3.18, 1.3, 1.17, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.17, 2.19]
Albert “Tootie” Heath
drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.8, 3.14, 3.16-17, 2.1, 2.3-5, 2.16, 1.1-2, 1.4-7, 1.14, 1.16, 1.20], membranophone [14]
Bob Blake
producer [1.14, 1.16, 2.16, 3.8, 3.14, 3.17]
Bobby Hamilton
drums (drum set) [1.3, 1.17, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.17, 2.19, 3.2, 3.13, 3.18]
Cal Lampley
producer [3.2, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.17, 2.19]
Chris White
bass [2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.17, 2.19, 1.3, 1.17, 3.2, 3.13, 3.18]
Hal Mooney
producer [3]
Hecky Krasnow
producer [1.8-9, 1.12-13, 1.19, 2.11, 2.15, 2.18, 3.4-7]
Jack Gold
producer [3.8, 3.14, 3.17, 2.16, 1.14, 1.16]
James E. Bond
bass [1.4-7, 1.14, 1.16, 1.20, 3.1, 3.8, 3.14, 3.17, 2.5, 2.16], double bass [3.16, 2.1, 2.3-4, 1.1-2]
Layo & Bushwacka!
remixer [17]
Nina Simone
lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.11, 2.13-14, 2.16, 2.18-19, 3.2, 3.6, 3.8, 3.20, 1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.18], piano [1.1-9, 1.12-14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 2.1-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15-19, 3.1-2, 3.4-8, 3.13-14, 3.16-18], vocal [3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.7, 3.13-14, 3.16-18, 2.7, 2.9, 2.15, 2.17, 1.3, 1.8-9, 1.12-13, 1.16-17, 1.19]
Ralph Burns
arranger [6], conductor [6]
Robert Mersey
arranger [1.8-9, 1.12-13, 1.19, 3.4-7, 2.11, 2.15, 2.18]
Rudy van Gelder
recording [2.11, 2.15, 2.18, 1.8-9, 1.12-13, 1.19, 3.4-7]
Stu Phillips
arranger [3]

Issues

T
The Platinum Collection: 42 All Time Classics
3x 12" Vinyl
30 June 2017
T
The Platinum Collection: 60 All Time Classics
3x CD
2017