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The Very Best Of Nina Simone: Sugar In My Bowl 1967-1972 (CD)

By: Nina Simone (Artist)

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Nina Simone Artist Snapshot:

Nina Simone was a great pianist, a riveting vocalist, and an uncompromising personality. Her sociopolitical consciousness and eclecticism set her apart from the pack. Her interpretations of soul, jazz, blues, and standards are both striking and unique; not for nothing do her fans refer to her as "the Goddess." She established her jazz credentials with an emotive interpretation of George Gershwin 's 'I Loves You Porgy' in 1959. Her influential '60s work included "Forbidden Fruit" and "I Put A Spell On You." One of her singles, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," later became a worldwide hit for the Animals. In later years, she recorded less frequently, but in 1987, while in self-imposed exile in France, she had a fluke hit after her '50s version of "My Baby Just Cares For Me," was resurrected in a TV commercial. Simone died in 2003 at her home in France at age 70.

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DISC 1 for The Very Best Of Nina Simone: Sugar In My Bowl 1967-1972 (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   My Man's Gone Now
2   Since I Fell For You
3   I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
4   Do I Move You - (version II)
5   Blues For Mama
6   Backlash Blues
7   In The Dark
8   Consummation
9   Go To Hell
10   I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
11   Turning Point
12   Turn Me On
13   Look Of Love, The
14   To Love Somebody
15   I Can't See Nobody
16   In The Morning
17   Do What You Gotta Do
18   Ain't Got No / I Got Life
19   Please Read Me
20   Sunday In Savannah
21   Why (The King Of Love Is Dead)
22   Mississippi Goddam
 
DISC 2 for The Very Best Of Nina Simone: Sugar In My Bowl 1967-1972 (CD) Album By Nina Simone (Artist)
1   I Think It's Going To Rain Today
2   I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
3   Nobody's Fault But Mine
4   Another Spring
5   Compassion
6   Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You
7   I Shall Be Released
8   To Be Young, Gifted And Black
9   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10   Suzanne - (previously unreleased)
11   My Father / Dialog - (previously unreleased)
12   Jelly Roll - (previously unreleased)
13   Tell It Like It Is - (previously unreleased)
14   Mr. Bojangles
15   Here Comes The Sun
16   Ooh Child
17   Poppies
18   22nd Century - (previously unreleased)
 

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Review

Vibe (12/99, p.164) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century - "A fierce interpretive singer, arranger, pianist, Simone sings virtually every genre of song...with a bluesy, self-assured artistry that soothes and intimidates in equal measure..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Nina Simone (vocals, conductor); Sammy Lowe, Jimmy Wisner, Horace Ott, Weldon Irvine, Harold Wheeler (conductor).

Producers: Danny Davis, Joe Rene, Stroud Productions And Enterprises, Inc., C.F.N.S.

Compilation producer: Paul Williams.

Recorded between 1967 and 1972. Includes liner notes by David Nathan.

Nina Simone's five-year tenure at RCA Records found her deviating only slightly from the traditions established at her previous corporate home, Philips Records. The political content is slightly reduced, and there are a few more covers of pop songs, including four Bee Gees tunes (highlighted by a surprisingly effective solo take on the relatively obscure "Please Read Me") and Randy Newman's oft-covered "I Think It's Going To Rain Today." Simone never sold out, though: in one of the four previously unreleased tracks, Simone breaks off a version of Judy Collins' "My Father" after a single verse, calmly telling her producer that she's not going to sing the song because she feels no connection with the sentimental lyrics. This two-disc collection is considerably less complete than the four-disc box set of Simone's Philips work, FOUR WOMEN, but in focusing on Simone's vocal power and subtle interpretive skills, it makes an effective argument for the somewhat contrarian view that her RCA years were equal, if not superior, to her earlier work.

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