The Very Best Of Nina Simone

Tracklist

• CD 1: Disc One
• 1
  Mood Indigo
  4:01
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Smoke in Bed
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 3
  He Needs Me
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Little Girl Blue
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Love Me or Leave Me
  3:21
  4.6 ★
• 6
  My Baby Just Cares for Me
  3:37
  3.9 ★
• 7
  Plain Gold Ring
  3:53
  3.0 ★
• 8
  You’ll Never Walk Alone
  3:45
  5.0 ★
• 9
  I Loves You, Porgy
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Central Park Blues
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:39
  3.5 ★
• 12
  For All We Know
  4:01
• 13
  Blue Prelude
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Children Go Where I Send You
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  2:08
  4.0 ★
• 17
  It Might as Well Be Spring
  3:56
  3.6 ★
• 18
  You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2:10
  5.0 ★
• 19
  That’s Him Over There
  2:31
  4.4 ★
• 20
  Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Theme From Middle of the Night
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Can’t Get Out of This Mood
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:13
  3.4 ★
• CD 2: Disc Two
• 1
  Solitaire
  3:23
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
  3:29
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Exactly Like You
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 4
  The Other Woman
  2:55
  4.5 ★
• 5
  You Can Have Him
  5:51
• 6
  Summertime
  2:43
• 7
  Cotton‐Eyed Joe
  2:53
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Return Home
  5:24
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Wild Is the Wind
  3:27
• 10
  Fine and Mellow
  3:28
• 11
  Trouble in Mind
  5:34
• 12
  Porgy
  5:12
  1.5 ★
• 13
  Little Liza Jane
  4:17
• 14
  You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
  5:24
• 15
  Rags and Old Iron
  4:09
  4.5 ★
• 16
  No Good Man
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Gin House Blues
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 18
  I’ll Look Around
  5:03
  3.5 ★
• CD 3: Disc Three
• 1
  I Love to Love
  3:23
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Work Song
  2:34
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Where Can I Go Without You
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Memphis in June
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Forbidden Fruit
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Just in Time
  6:21
  3.0 ★
• 7
  He Was Too Good to Me
  4:54
• 8
  House of the Rising Sun
  4:31
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Brown Baby
  5:43
  2.0 ★
• 10
  If He Changed My Name
  3:50
• 11
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  2:49
  3.5 ★
• 12
  I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Hey Buddy Bolden
  2:26
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Merry Mending
  2:35
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Something to Live For
  2:55
  3.0 ★
• 16
  You Better Know It
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 17
  I Like the Sunrise
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Solitude
  3:44
  5.0 ★
• 19
  The Gal From Joe’s
  2:06
  4.5 ★
• 20
  Satin Doll
  3:36
  4.5 ★
• 21
  It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
  2:30
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [2.11-12, 2.14-18, 3.1-5, 3.8]
• Albert “Tootie” Heath
  drums (drum set) [1.1-10, 1.12, 2.3-10], membranophone [6, 8]
• Bob Blake
  producer [3-10]
• Bobby Hamilton
  drums (drum set) [2.11-12, 2.14-18, 3.1-5, 3.8]
• Cal Lampley
  producer [2.15-18, 3.1-5]
• Chris White
  bass [2.11-12, 2.14-18, 3.1-5, 3.8]
• Hal Mooney
  producer [2.2, 1.11]
• Hecky Krasnow
  producer [1.13-23, 2.1]
• Jack Gold
  producer [3-10]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2.3-10, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7-8], double bass [3, 5-6, 9-10, 12]
• Layo & Bushwacka!
  remixer [15]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [2], lead vocals [3.2, 3.5, 3.8, 3.12-13, 3.17-18, 3.21, 1.1-7, 1.9, 1.14, 1.17, 1.23, 2.5, 2.9-10, 2.13, 2.17], piano [2.1-12, 2.14-18, 1.1-10, 1.12-23, 3.1-5], vocal [3.1-4, 3.12, 1.12-13, 1.15-16, 1.18-22, 2.1-4, 2.6-7, 2.11-12, 2.14-16, 2.18]
• Ralph Burns
  arranger [18], conductor [18]
• Robert Mersey
  arranger [1.13-23, 2.1]
• Rudy van Gelder
  recording [1.13-23, 2.1]
• Stu Phillips
  arranger [11]
• The Malcom Dodds Singers
  choir vocals [18]
• Show all credits (17)

Issues

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  The Very Best Of Nina Simone

  3x CD
  2015