The Essential Nina Simone by Nina Simone - DeepRiffs

COMPILATION

Volume 1

Volume 2

The Best of Nina Simone presents 12 tracks taken from the many recordings Simone did for Phillips in the '60s. As is often noted, Simone is a dynamic and powerful vocal interpreter who often brought her social consciousness directly into her artistry. Some of the material on this record would have been considered topical for the period when it was first issued. 20 years later (1985) much of it still retains the emotional power of its original time. Ignore the liner note hyperbole; this is in fact certainly some of the BEST of Simone. There's a universality to the emotion and text of this theatrical music - any doubts, just substitute the name "South Africa" for "Mississippi" in "...Goddamn." Too removed? Try your own locale. ~ Bob Rusch, Cadence

Volume 1

1. The Other Woman (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Jesse May Robinson; Composer
Lyricist: Jesse May Robinson; Composer
Producer: Bob Blake
Jack Gold; Production

2. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Emile Latimer; Composer
Lyricist: Emile Latimer; Composer
Producer: Bob Blake
Jack Gold; Production

3. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (Single Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Jimmie Cox; Composer
Lyricist: Jimmie Cox; Composer
Producer: Stu Phillips; Production

4. Trouble In Mind (Single Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Richard M. Jones; Composer
Lyricist: Richard M. Jones; Composer
Producer: Stu Phillips; Production

5. Mississippi Goddam (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Nina Simone; Composer
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

6. See-Line Woman

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Nina Simone; Composer
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

7. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Album Version)

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Horace Ott; Composer
Composer: Gloria Caldwell
Bennie Benjamin
Sol Marcus; Composer
Lyricist: Sol Marcus
Bennie Benjamin
Gloria Caldwell; Composer
Conductor: Horace Ott; Conductor
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

8. I Put a Spell On You

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Hal Mooney; Composer
Composer: Jalacy J. Hawkins; Composer
Lyricist: Jalacy J. Hawkins; Composer
Conductor: Hal Mooney; Conductor
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

9. Ne Me Quitte Pas (Album Version)

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Hal Mooney; Composer
Composer: Jacques Brel; Composer
Lyricist: Jacques Brel; Composer
Conductor: Hal Mooney; Conductor
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

10. Strange Fruit (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Lewis Allen; Composer
Lyricist: Lewis Allen; Composer
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

11. Four Women (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Nina Simone; Composer
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

12. Sinnerman (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Traditional; Composer
Lyricist: Traditional; Composer
Producer: Hal Mooney; Production

13. Do I Move You?

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Nina Simone; Composer
Engineer: Ray Hall; Production
Producer: Danny Davis; Production

Volume 2

1. I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Nina Simone; Composer
Producer: Danny Davis; Production
Recording: Ray Hall; Production

2. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Sammy Lowe; Composer
Composer: William Taylor
Richard Lamb; Composer
Lyricist: William Taylor
Richard Lamb; Composer
Conductor: Sammy Lowe; Conductor
Mixing Engineer: Mike Hartry; Production
Producer: Danny Davis; Production
Reissue Producer: Paul Williams; Production
Remastering: Bill Lacey; Production

3. The Glory Of Love (Previously Unreleased)

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Jimmy Wisner; Composer
Composer: William Hill; Composer
Lyricist: William Hill; Composer
Conductor: Jimmy Wisner; Conductor
Producer: Danny Davis; Production

4. To Love Somebody

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Jimmy Wisner; Composer
Composer: Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb; Composer
Lyricist: Barry Gibb
Robin Gibb; Composer
Conductor: Jimmy Wisner; Conductor
Mixing Engineer: Mike Hartry; Production
Producer: Danny Davis; Production
Recording: Mike Moran; Production

5. Do What You Gotta Do

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Horace Ott; Composer
Composer: Jim Webb; Composer
Lyricist: Jim Webb; Composer
Conductor: Horace Ott; Conductor
A&r: Tom Berman; Production
Producer: Stroud Productions & Enterprises; Production

6. Ain't Got No - I Got Life (From the Musical Production "Hair") (Live)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Bass: Eugene Taylor; Performer
Drums: Bucky Clark; Performer
Guitar: Rudy Stevenson; Performer
Organ: Samuel Waymon; Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Piano: Nina Simone; Performer
Vocals: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Arthur Terence Galt Macdermot
James Rado
Gerome Ragni; Composer
Lyricist: James Rado
Arthur Terence Galt Macdermot
Gerome Ragni; Composer
Producer: Joe Rene; Production
Recording: Ed Begley; Production

7. Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) (Live)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Calvin Taylor; Composer
Lyricist: Calvin Taylor; Composer
Producer: Joe Rene; Production
Recording: Ed Begley; Production

8. Everyone's Gone to the Moon (Remastered)

Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Piano: Nina Simone; Performer
Vocals: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Kenneth King; Composer
Lyricist: Kenneth King; Composer
Engineer: Ray Hall; Production
Mixing Engineer: James P. Nichols; Production
Producer: Stroud Productions, Inc.; Production
Remastering: Bill Lacey; Production

9. Revolution (Pts. 1 and 2)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Background Vocals: Virdia Crawford
Doris Willingham; Performer
Bass Guitar: Gene Perla; Performer
Drums: Bernard Purdie
Don Alias; Performer
Guitar: Eric Gale
Stuart Scharf
Ernest Calabria
Al Schackman; Performer
Organ: Weldon Irvine; Performer
Percussion: Don Alias; Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Timpani: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Composer: Weldon Irvine
Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Weldon Irvine
Nina Simone; Composer
Producer: Stroud Productions & Enterprises, Inc.; Production

10. To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Live)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Weldon Irvine
Nina Simone; Composer
Lyricist: Weldon Irvine
Nina Simone; Composer
Conductor: Weldon Irvine; Conductor
Mixing Engineer: Mike Hartry; Production
Producer: Stroud Productions & Enterprises, Inc.; Production

11. Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Live)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Background Vocals: The Swordsmen; Performer
Bongos: Don Alias; Performer
Congas: Jumma Santos; Performer
Drums: Don Alias; Performer
Guitar: Emile Latimer
Tom Smith; Performer
Organ: Weldon Irvine; Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Piano: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Sandy Denny; Composer
Lyricist: Sandy Denny; Composer
Engineer: Ed Begley; Production
Producer: Andrew Stroud; Production

12. Here Comes the Sun

Vocals: Nina Simone; Performer
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone
Harold Wheeler; Composer
Composer: George Harrison; Composer
Lyricist: George Harrison; Composer
Conductor: Harold Wheeler; Conductor
Mixing Engineer: James P. Nichols; Production
Producer: A.c.f.n.s. Productions; Production
Remastering: Bill Lacey; Production

13. Just Like a Woman

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Nina Simone
Harold Wheeler; Composer
Composer: Bob Dylan; Composer
Lyricist: Bob Dylan; Composer
Conductor: Harold Wheeler; Conductor
Producer: Harold Wheeler
Nat Shapiro
A C.f.n.s. Production; Production
Recording: Ed Begley; Production

14. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Congas: Leopoldo Fleming; Performer
Drums: Charles D. Alias; Performer
Guitar: David Spinozza
Gene Peila; Performer
Organ: Sam Waymon; Performer
Percussion: Richard Resnicoff
Essien K. Nkrumah
Nadi Qamar
John B. Williams; Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Arranger: Harold Wheeler
Nina Simone; Composer
Composer: Aillene Bullock; Composer
Lyricist: Aillene Bullock; Composer
Executive Producer: Bruce Somerfeld; Production
Producer: Nina Simone; Production

15. Rich Girl

Arranger: David Matthews; Composer
Background Vocals: Ray Simpson
Babi Floyd
Frank Floyd
Joshie Armstead
Milt Grayson
Albertine Robinson
Debbie Mcduffie
Maeretha Stewart; Performer
Lyricist: Daryl Hall; Composer
Assistant Engineer: Joel Cohn; Production
Bass: Gary King; Performer
Cello: Alan Shulman
Jonathan Abramowitz
Charles Mccracken; Performer
Drums: Andy Newmark; Performer
Guitar: Eric Gale
Jerry Friedman; Performer
Keyboard: Nina Simone; Performer
Percussion: Nicky Marrero; Performer
Composer: Daryl Hall; Composer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Viola: Lamar Alsop
Alfred Brown
Emanuel Vardi; Performer
Violin: Herbert Sorkin
Max Ellen
Barry Finclair
Richard Sortomme
Charles Libove
Harry Glickman
Marvin Morgenstern
David Nadien
Harry Lookofsky; Performer
Vocals: Nina Simone; Performer
Director: Al Schackman; Production
Mastering Engineer: Chris Herles; Production
Mixing Engineer: David Palmer; Production
Recording: David Palmer; Production
Reissue Producer: Didier C. Deutsch; Production
Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Producer: Creed Taylor; Production

16. A Single Woman (Album Version)

Primary Artist: Nina Simone; Main Performer
Performer: Nina Simone; Performer
Composer: Rod Mckuen; Composer
Lyricist: Rod Mckuen; Composer
Producer: Andre Fischer; Production

Technical Specifications

Volume

2 volumes in total

Tracks

29 tracks available

Type

COMPILATION

Format

Digital Media

Duration

1 hour, 52 minutes and 30 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 1500x1500 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

CD Quality (Lossless)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

Lyrics

All tracks have lyrics

Synchronized Lyrics

25/29 tracks have synced lyrics

Genres

Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Vocal, Standards, R&B, Soul

Label

RCA/BMG Heritage

Music Distribution Service

Sony

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)
French (France)

Popularity

Release Date

Dec 31, 1968

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site

UPC

884977952544