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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Written for the film version of the musical comedy Whoopee! (1930), the song became a signature tune for Eddie Cantor who sang it in the movie. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A stylized version of the song by American singer and songwriter Nina Simone , [ 2 ] recorded in 1957, was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom after it was used in a 1987 perfume commercial ...
"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 ...
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
Nina Simone's recording of the song (from her first album, Little Girl Blue, 1958 [13]) went to number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the R&B charts. [14] Christina Aguilera performed the song at the Grammy Nomination Concert in December 2008. [15]