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NINA SIMONE

THE HITS (LP) (LTD)
Label NEW CONTINENT
Catalog 101007
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-12-28
Description
・ LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS
・ GATEFOLD EDITION
・ DIRECT METAL MASTERING
・ 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL
This set presents some of Nina Simone’s greatest hits. among them the perennial “I Loves You Porgy” which charted at #2 in the UK and #18 in the USA in 1959 “Nobody Know You When You’re Down and Out” (#23 in the UK; #93 in the USA in 1960) and “Trouble in Mind” (#11 in the UK; #92 in the USA in 1961).
“My Baby Just Cares for Me” wasn’t a hit at the time it was recorded but after director Ridley Scott featured Nina’s recording of that song in a 1987 Chanel commercial starring actress Carole Bouquet it became one of Simone’s biggest hits almost 19 years after her previous chart entry. In 1987 it went to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
This collection presents the incomparable Nina Simone in a variety of musical contexts backed by her trio or quartet or accompanied by big bands conducted by Bob Mersey or Ralph Burns among others

NINA SIMONE vocals & piano
On all tracks plus:
A1-A4 & B7: Jimmy Bond (bass); Albert “Tootie” Heath (drums). New York December 1957.
A5-A7: Orchestra conducted & arranged by Bob Mersey. New York May 1959.
A8: Orchestra conducted by Stu Phillips. New York 1959-60.
B1 B3 B6 & B8: Jimmy Bond (bass); Albert “Tootie” Heath (drums). Town Hall New York September 12 1959.
B2: Al Shackman (g) Chris White (b) Bobby Hamilton (d). Newport Jazz Festival Newport Rhode Island June 30 1960.
B4: The Malcolm Dodds Singers (vocal choir). Orchestra conducted & arranged by Ralph Burns. New York June 1961.
B5: Al Shackman (g) Chris White (b) Bobby Hamilton (d). New York 1960-61.
tracklisting
Side A:
1. MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME (Gus Kahn-Walter Donaldson)
2. I LOVES YOU PORGY (George & Ira Gershwin)
3. LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (Gus Kahn-Walter Donaldson)
4. LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
5. HE NEEDS ME (Arthur Hamilton)
6. CHILDREN GO WHERE I SEND YOU (Traditional; arr. Nina Simone)
7. WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (Ann Ronell)
8. NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT (James Cox)
Side B:
1. BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE’S HAIR (Traditional; arr. Nina Simone)
2. TROUBLE IN MIND (Richard Jones)
3. EXACTLY LIKE YOU (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)
4. DO NOTHIN’ TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (Duke Ellington-Bob Russell)
5. WORK SONG (Nat Adderley-Oscar Brown Jr.)
6. FINE AND MELLOW (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog)
7. MOOD INDIGO (Irving Mills-Duke Ellington-Barney Bigard)
8. THE OTHER WOMAN (Jesse Mae Robinson-Nina Simone)
 

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