The Very Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:37
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Little Girl Blue
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 3
  I Loves You Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 4
  He Needs Me
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:23
  4.6 ★
• 6
  Blue Prelude
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Mood Indigo
  4:03
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:12
  3.4 ★
• 9
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 12
  African Mailman
  3:10
• 13
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
  3:11
• 14
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:42
  3.5 ★
• 15
  That’s Him Over There
  2:32
  4.4 ★
• 16
  Good Bait
  5:29
  3.6 ★
• 17
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 18
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:11
  5.0 ★
• 19
  Theme From "The Middle of the Night"
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair
  3:34
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Exactly Like You
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Other Woman
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Under the Lowest
  5:33
• 5
  You Can Have Him
  5:56
• 6
  Summertime (instrumental)
  2:56
• 7
  Summertime
  2:45
• 8
  Cotton-Eyed Joe
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Return Home
  5:27
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:40
• 11
  Fine and Mellow
  3:29
• 12
  Central Park Blues
  6:50
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:09
  4.0 ★
• 14
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:56
  3.6 ★
• 15
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Solitaire
  3:24
  5.0 ★
• 17
  That’s All
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 18
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 19
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 20
  My Baby Just Cares for Me (extended version)
  5:12
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1.1-5, 1.7, 1.10-13, 1.16, 2.2-12, 2.18-20], membranophone [4, 6-7, 9]
• Bob Blake
  producer [2-11]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [1.14, 2.1]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [1.6, 1.8-9, 1.15, 1.17-20, 2.13-16]
• Jack Gold
  producer [2-11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.2, 1.7, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.16, 2.2-12, 2.19-20], double bass [2.18, 1.1, 1.3-5, 1.12]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [1], lead vocals [2.5, 2.10-11, 2.14, 1.1-5, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 1.17], piano [2.1-16, 2.18-20, 1.1-13, 1.15-20], vocal [1.6, 1.9, 1.13, 1.15, 1.18-20, 2.1-3, 2.7-8, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.18, 2.20]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [1.6, 1.8-9, 1.15, 1.17-20, 2.13-16]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1.6, 1.8-9, 1.15, 1.17-20, 2.13-16]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [14]

Issues

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  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  2x CD
  2010