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  • Artist: Nina Simone
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1996
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 081227256722
  • Item Number: 231658X
  • Release date: 11/19/1996
  • 1. Blue Prelude
  • 2. That's Him over There
  • 3. Theme from "Middle of the Night"
  • 4. Willow Weep for Me
  • 5. Solitaire
  • 6. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  • 7. Exactly Like You
  • 8. The Other Woman
  • 9. You Can Have Him
  • 10. Cottom Eyed Joe
  • 11. Fine and Mellow
  • 12. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  • 13. Trouble in Mind
  • 14. Porgy
  • 15. Li'l Liza Jane
  • 16. Rags and Old Iron
  • 17. No Good Man
  • 18. Gin House Blues
  • 19. Work Song
  • 20. Forbidden Fruit
  • 21. Come on Back, Jack
  • 1. He Was Too Good to Me
  • 2. House of the Rising Sun
  • 3. Brown Baby
  • 4. Children Go Where I Send You
  • 5. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
  • 6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  • 7. Hey, Buddy Bolden
  • 8. Solitude
  • 9. The Gal from Joe's
  • 10. Blackbird
  • 11. If You Knew
  • 12. The Twelfth of Never
  • 13. When I Was a Young Girl
  • 14. Erets Zavat Chalav
  • 15. The Young Knight
  • 16. Spring Is Here
  • 17. Falling in Love Again
  • 18. That's All
  • 19. Porgy, I Is Your Woman (Bess, You Is My Woman)
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Anthology: The Colpix Years by Nina Simone on CD


Simone recorded prolifically during her affiliation with Colpix in the late '50s and early '60s. This 40-song, two-CD set presents choice extracts from approximately ten albums worth of material. It isn't quite as impressive as what she recorded for Philips in the mid-'60s, sticking to a more pop- and light jazz-based approach, and not mining blues and soul nearly as heavily. She was also writing hardly any of her own tunes, and had yet to fully expound upon issues of black pride and social justice. These are ultimately minor quibbles; it's a fine set, in which Simone already demonstrates commanding vocals and a wide-ranging stylistic base that incorporates material by Duke Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, Billie Holiday, Nat Adderley, "House of the Rising Sun," and even a Hebrew tune. It also has three non-LP cuts, including the self-penned, African-tinged "Blackbird," and "Come on Back, Jack," an answer record to Ray Charles' "Hit the Road, Jack." By the way, this doesn't make the single-disc Colpix Years CD on Roulette totally redundant, as that release has half a dozen tracks which don't appear on this anthology. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
  • Artist: Nina Simone
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1996
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 081227256722
  • Item Number: 231658X
  • Release date: 11/19/1996
  • Label: Rhino
  • Album Time: 150:27

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  • Anthology: The Colpix Years Nina Simone CD
Anthology: The Colpix Years Nina Simone CD