The Very Best of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1: Greatest Hits 1
• 1
  Mood Indigo
  4:00
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 3
  He Needs Me
  2:27
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Little Girl Blue
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:20
  4.6 ★
• 6
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:35
  3.9 ★
• 7
  Good Bait (instrumental)
  5:25
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 9
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 10
  I Love You, Porgy
  4:02
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Central Park Blues
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:48
  3.5 ★
• 13
  I Got It Bad
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Hey Buddy Bolden
  2:24
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Merry Mending
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Something to Live For
  3:27
  3.0 ★
• CD 2: Greatest Hits 2
• 1
  You Better Know It
  2:18
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Like the Sunrise
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Solitude
  3:43
  5.0 ★
• 4
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:04
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Satin Doll
  3:35
  4.5 ★
• 6
  It Don’t Mean a Thing
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:08
  4.5 ★
• 8
  No Good Man
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Gin House Blues
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 10
  I’ll Look Around
  5:05
  3.5 ★
• 11
  I Love to Love
  3:25
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Work Song
  2:33
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:52
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Just Say I Love Him
  6:36
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Memphis in June
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• CD 3: Greatest Hits 3
• 1
  Blue Prelude
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:10
  4.0 ★
• 5
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:54
  3.6 ★
• 6
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:10
  5.0 ★
• 7
  That’s Him Over There
  2:29
  4.4 ★
• 8
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Theme From Middle of the Night
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:11
  3.4 ★
• 12
  Solitaire
  3:25
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Just in Time
  6:22
  3.0 ★
• 14
  He Was Too Good to Me
  4:53
• 15
  House of the Rising Sun
  4:39
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  8:14
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Brown Baby
  5:58
  2.0 ★
• 18
  Zungo
  2:51
• 19
  If He Changed My Name
  3:48
• 20
  Children Go Where I Send You
  7:46
• CD 4: Live at Town Hall (1959)
• 1
  Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Exactly Like You
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Other Woman
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Under the Lowest
• 5
  You Can Have Him
• 6
  Summertime (instrumental)
• 7
  Summertime (vocal)
• 8
  Cotton Eyed Joe
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Wild Is the Wind
• 10
  Return Home
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Fine and Mellow
• 12
  Trouble in Mind
• 13
  Blues for Porgy
  1.5 ★
• 14
  Little Liza Jane
• 15
  You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
• 16
  Flo Me La
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Nina’s Blues
• 18
  In the Evening by the Moonlight
• CD 5: Nina Simone
• 1
  He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
• 2
  For All We Know
• 3
  African Mailman
• 4
  I Love You Porgy
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Cottage for Sale

  Chris Connor
• 6
  Good Bye

  Chris Connor
• 7
  Try a Little Tenderness

  Chris Connor
• 8
  What Is There to Say

  Chris Connor
• 9
  Last Time for Love

  Carmen McRae
• 10
  Old Devil Moon

  Carmen McRae
• 11
  Too Much Love to Care

  Carmen McRae
• 12
  You Made Me Care

  Carmen McRae

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [2.7-16, 3.15, 4.12-18]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1.1-9, 1.11, 4.1-11, 5.1-4], membranophone [4, 6-7, 10]
• Beverly Peer
  bass [8]
• Bob Blake
  producer [1-11]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [4.12-18, 3.15, 2.7-16]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [7-16]
• Chris Connor
  vocal [8]
• Chris White
  bass [2.7-16, 3.15, 4.12-18]
• Ellis Larkins
  piano [8]
• Everett Barksdale
  guitar [8]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [1-12]
• Jack Gold
  producer [2-11]
• James E. Bond
  bass [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7-9, 5.1, 4.1-11], double bass [5.2-4, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.11]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [7]
• Nina Simone
  lead vocals [5.4, 2.2-3, 2.6, 2.9, 2.12, 2.16, 1.1-6, 1.8, 1.13-14, 4.5, 4.9, 4.11, 3.2, 3.5, 3.11, 3.15], piano [2.7-16, 4.1-18, 5.1-4, 1.1-9, 1.11, 3.1-12], vocal [1.13, 2.7-8, 2.10-15, 5.1-2, 3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-10, 3.12, 4.1-3, 4.7-8, 4.12-18]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [3], conductor [3]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [1-12]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1-12]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [3]
• Show all credits (19)

Issues

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  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  Digital Media
  1 April 2013
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  The Very Best of

  Digital Media (Digital download)
  1 April 2013
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  The Very Best of Nina Simone

  5x CD
  2013