The Ultimate Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1: Love Songs & Ballads
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:38
  3.9 ★
• 2
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:22
  4.6 ★
• 4
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 5
  He Needs Me
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Please Read Me
  3:10
• 9
  For a While
  5:28
• 10
  To Love Somebody
  3:15
• 11
  After You’ve Gone
  5:39
• 12
  Ne me quitte pas
  5:14
• 13
  When I Was a Young Girl
  4:43
• CD 2: Jazz & Blues
• 1
  Mood Indigo
  4:03
  5.0 ★
• 2
  African Mailman
  3:10
• 3
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  3:52
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Good Bait
  5:28
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Central Park Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Ain’t No Use
  4:40
• 7
  Blues
  4:42
• 8
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  3:27
• 9
  Backlash Blues
  2:47
• 10
  Gin House Blues
  4:56
• 11
  Four Women
  4:51
• 12
  Little Girl Blue
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Sunday in Savannah
  2:25
  2.0 ★
• 14
  I’ll Look Around
  2:45
• 15
  House of the Rising Sun
  6:55
  2.0 ★
• CD 3: Classics & Roots
• 1
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:10
• 2
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 3
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  5:05
• 4
  You Took My Teeth
  1:09
• 5
  The Other Woman
  4:17
• 6
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:44
• 7
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  3:46
• 9
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  2:45
• 10
  See Line Woman
  3:47
• 11
  Zungo
  2:34
• 12
  The Assignment Song
  4:55
  1.0 ★
• 13
  No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
  4:05
• 14
  Pirate Jenny
  4:45
• 15
  When I Was in My Prime
  4:16

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  electric guitar [7, 14], guitar [3.11, 3.15, 2.7, 2.13-14]
• Al Shackman
  bass [3.4-5, 3.7, 3.14, 2.11]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.12, 3.1-2, 1.1-7]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [3.4-5, 3.7, 3.14, 2.11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [2.7, 2.13-14, 3.11]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [8, 12-13]
• Chris White
  bass [7, 13-14], double bass [2.7, 2.14, 3.11]
• Gene Taylor
  double bass [8, 12-13]
• Henry Young
  guitar [8, 12-13]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.6-7, 3.1-2, 2.1, 2.4, 2.12], double bass [1.1-5, 2.2, 2.5]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [15], lead vocals [3.3, 3.12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.11-13], piano [1.1-8, 1.12-13, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.11-12, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.7, 3.11, 3.14], vocal [2.11, 3.1, 3.11, 3.15, 1.4, 1.8, 1.12-13]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [2.11, 3.4-5, 3.7, 3.14]
• Sam Waymon
  organ [8, 12-13], percussion [8, 12-13]

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