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Little Girl Blue: Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club is the debut studio album by Nina Simone.Recorded in late 1957, it was eventually released by Bethlehem Records in February 1959.
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 ...
After the success of Little Girl Blue, Simone signed a contract with producer Hecky Krasnow at Colpix Records and recorded a multitude of studio and live albums. Colpix relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them.
Simone recorded the song in late 1957 for her debut album, Little Girl Blue, released in February 1959. The track remained relatively obscure until 1987, when it was used in a UK television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.
Little Girl Blue may refer to: "Little Girl Blue" (song), a 1935 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; Little Girl Blue, an album by Nina Simone; Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New, a 1963 album by Keely Smith; Little Girl Blue, a Czech film directed by Alice Nellis; Janis: Little Girl Blue, a 2015 documentary film
"Don't Smoke in Bed" is a jazz song originally composed and recorded by Willard Robison [1] and later associated with a recording by Nina Simone released on her 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue. [2] The song had been first recorded by Peggy Lee in 1947 with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra and released on her album Rendezvous with Peggy Lee ...
1959 was the year Simone became a star - and much of this has to do with the performance which forms the basis of At Town Hall.In February, earlier that year, Simone's first album Little Girl Blue had been released by Bethlehem Records, after it had been lazing in production for fourteen or so months.
"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 ...