The Very Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ne me quitte pas
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Loves You, Porgy
  2:32
  5.0 ★
• 3
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:04
• 4
  Strange Fruit
  3:31
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Feeling Good
  2:56
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Love Me or Leave Me
  4:06
• 7
  Mood Indigo
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 8
  If You Knew / Let It Be Me
  5:24
• 9
  That’s All I Ask
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Images
  2:52
  2.5 ★
• 11
  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  2:47
• 12
  Be My Husband
  3:21
• 13
  I Love My Baby
  4:08
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Lilac Wine
  4:17
  4.5 ★
• 15
  See Line Woman
  2:38
  2.6 ★
• 16
  What More I Can Say
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Plain Gold Ring
  6:19
• CD 2
• 1
  Tell Me More and More and Then Some
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Work Song
  3:08
  3.4 ★
• 3
  Blues on Purpose
  3:16
• 4
  I Love You Lovin’ Ways
  2:30
• 5
  Little Girl Blue
  4:20
  4.0 ★
• 6
  For Myself
  2:08
  2.5 ★
• 7
  The Last Rose of Summer
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 8
  If I Should Lose You
  4:00
• 9
  Don’t Explain
  4:21
• 10
  Wild Is the Wind
  6:59
  4.5 ★
• 11
  The Other Woman
  3:05
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Mississippi Goddam
  4:54
• 13
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  5:26
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Take Me to the Water
  2:51
  2.5 ★
• 15
  Four Women
  4:27
  3.5 ★
• 16
  I Put a Spell on You
  2:37
  4.3 ★
• 17
  Just Like a Woman
  3:39

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone 1997

Legends

Legends 1994

Release credits

• Al Schackman
  harmonica [1.13-14, 2.1, 2.10, 2.15]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [5, 11]
• Arthur Adams
  guitar [8]
• Bob Blake
  producer [11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [1.2, 1.9, 1.13-14, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.10, 2.13, 2.15]
• Hal Mooney
  arranger [2.7, 2.16, 1.1, 1.5], conductor [2.7, 2.14, 2.16, 1.1, 1.5], producer [2.1, 2.10, 2.15-16, 1.1, 1.4-5, 1.9, 1.14-16]
• Hal Mooney & His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [7]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [9, 16], conductor [9, 16]
• Jack Gold
  producer [11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [5, 11]
• Lisle Atkinson
  bass guitar [2.1, 2.15, 1.13], double bass [2.10, 2.13, 2.15, 1.2, 1.9, 1.14, 1.16-17], percussion [2.1, 2.10, 2.15, 1.2, 1.13-14]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [2.1, 2.10, 2.13-14, 1.2, 1.14-15, 1.17], conductor [15], lead vocals [2.5, 2.13, 1.2, 1.17], piano [2.1, 2.5, 2.7, 2.10-11, 2.13-16, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.8-10, 1.13-17], vocal [2.7, 2.10-11, 2.14-16, 1.1, 1.5, 1.8-10, 1.14-16]
• Rudy Stevenson
  flute [1.2, 1.13-14, 1.16, 2.1, 2.10, 2.15], guitar [1.1-2, 1.5, 1.13-14, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.10, 2.13, 2.15-16]

Issues

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  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  2x CD
  2 December 2003