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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 ...
"Love Me or Leave Me" is a popular song written in 1928 by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical comedy Whoopee!, which opened in December 1928. [1] Ruth Etting's performance of the song was so popular that she was also given the song to sing in the play Simple Simon, which opened in February ...
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
"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 ...
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.
"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 ...