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A: Little Girl Blue / B: Non-album track; subsequently appeared on the Nina Simone and Her Friends (1960) compilation album 1960 January "Mood Indigo" / "Central Park Blues" Both tracks from Little Girl Blue; 1960 February "For All We Know" / "Good Bait" A: Non-album track; previously appeared on the Nina Simone and Her Friends (1960 ...
In 2022, American Songwriter ranked "Feeling Good" number one on their list of the 10 greatest Nina Simone songs, [13] and in 2023, The Guardian ranked the song number four on their list of the 20 greatest Nina Simone songs. [14] An official music video for Simone's version was released on YouTube 56 years after the release of her recording in ...
Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song) [27] Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954) [28] Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958) [29] Margaret Whiting – this charted briefly in 1947 [30] Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962) [31] Pinky Winters ...
She is the subject of Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone, a one-woman show first performed in 2016 at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone" [124] —and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre ...
The Very Best of Nina Simone is a compilation album of songs by Nina Simone, ... "Feeling Good" – 2:52 (1965) ... "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" – 2:32 (1967) ...
"Feeling Good" "In the Dark" "Since I Fell For You" "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" "To Love Somebody" "My Man's Gone Now" "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" "My Baby Just Cares For Me" "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" "Save Me" "The Look of Love" "I Get Along Without You Very Well" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
"Backlash Blues," one of Simone's civil rights songs. The lyrics were written by her friend and poet Langston Hughes. "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," based on a song by Simone's great example, Bessie Smith, but with somewhat different lyrics. "The House of the Rising Sun" was previously recorded live by Simone in 1962 on Nina at the Village ...
There had been three albums, Little Girl Blue (February 1959), from Bethlehem Records, and from Colpix Records, The Amazing Nina Simone (July 1959) and Nina Simone at Town Hall (December 1959). The first two had been studio albums, while At Town Hall had been a live album (albeit with three tracks re-recorded in the studio).