The Very Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• 1
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
  2:17
• 2
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:37
  3.9 ★
• 3
  Feeling Good
  2:52
  4.2 ★
• 4
  I Put a Spell on You
  2:34
  4.3 ★
• 5
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 7
  The Look of Love
  2:22
  3.2 ★
• 8
  I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
  3:08
  4.4 ★
• 9
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:32
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Do I Move You
  2:45
  4.6 ★
• 11
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:35
  3.0 ★
• 12
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Since I Fell for You
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Nobody’s Fault but Mine
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 15
  I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
  3:20
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Sinnerman
  10:21
  4.7 ★
• 17
  The Times They Are a Changin’
  5:59
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Mr. Bojangles
  4:59
  3.5 ★
• 19
  Here Comes the Sun
  3:33
  4.4 ★
• 20
  To Love Somebody
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (Nina Simone vs. Groovefinder remix)
  3:22

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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
  guitar [17]
• Al Shackman
  bass [11]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [2, 5]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [11]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [7, 17], timpani [17]
• Danny Davis
  producer [7-10, 13, 20]
• Don Alias
  drums (drum set) [20], percussion [17]
• Doris Willingham
  background vocals [17]
• Edwin Begley
  recording [18-19]
• Eric Gale
  electric guitar [7]
• Ernest Hayes
  harpsichord [7], piano [7]
• Gene A Perla
  bass [17], electric bass guitar [17]
• Gene Taylor
  electric bass guitar [7]
• Groovefinder
  remixer [21]
• Hal Mooney
  arranger [3-4], conductor [3-4], producer [3-4, 16]
• Harold Wheeler
  arranger [18-19], conductor [18-19], producer [18-19]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [6], conductor [6]
• Horace Ott's Orchestra
  performing orchestra [6]
• James E. Bond
  double bass [2, 5]
• Jimmy Wisner
  arranger [20], conductor [20]
• Mark Hartry
  mix [8]
• Mickey Crofford
  recording [9-10, 13]
• Mike Moran
  recording [17, 20]
• Nat Shapiro
  producer [18-19]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [14-15, 17-19], conductor [17], lead vocals [2, 5, 17, 19-20], piano [2-6, 11, 14-15, 17, 20], vocal [3-4, 6-8, 14-15]
• Paul Robinson
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [7, 12], recording [9-10, 13-15, 17, 20]
• Rudy Stevenson
  electric guitar [7], guitar [3-4]
• Sam Ellis
  performer [9]
• Sammy Lowe
  arranger [7-8], conductor [7-8]
• Virdia Crawford
  background vocals [17]
• Weldon Irvine
  organ [17]
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Issues

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  T
  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  CD
  1 May 2006
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  T
  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  CD
  2006
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  T
  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  CD (Special edition in book packaging)
  2006
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  T
  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  CD
  2007
• T
  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  CD (All cardboard packaging with slide out holder)