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Nina Simone: Broadway-Blues-Ballads

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Label: Philips Records
Released: 1964.11.15
Time:
 36:56
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): Hal Mooney
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:48
[2] Night Song (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
[3] The Laziest Gal in Town (Cole Porter) - 2:19
[4] Something Wonderful (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
[5] Don't Take All Night (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
[6] Nobody (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
[7] I Am Blessed (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
[8] Of This I'm Sure (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
[9] See-Line Woman (American Folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
[10] Our Love [Will See Us Through] (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
[11] How Can I? (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
[12] The Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore, Richard Alfred Milliken, Nina Simone) - 3:08

On some CD releases the single "A Monster" is added as a bonus track. (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:47.

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Nina Simone - Piano, Vocals, Arrangement on [10]

Rudy Stevenson - Flute on [9]
Lisle Atkinson - Percussion on [9]
Bobby Hamilton - Drums on [9]
Horace Ott - Arranger & Conductor on [1,5,7,8,10,11,13]
Hal Mooney - Arranger & Conductor on [2,3,4,6,12], Producer
NY Studio Orchestra - Orchestra

Bryan Koniarz - Reissue Producer
Ken Druker - Executive Producer
Aric Lach Morrison - Reissue Production Assistance
Peter Pullman - Editing
Suha Gur - Mastering
Jeff Willens - Mastering
Hollis King - Art Direction
Kazumi Matsumoto - Series Design
Phil Schaap - Reissue Research, Reissue Restoration
Jon Schapiro - Reissue Production Assistance
Michael Lang - Reissue Coordination
Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
Scott Townsend - Art Direction, Design
Langston Hughes - Liner Notes

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There's a lot more Broadway and a lot more ballads than blues on this, which ranks as one of her weaker mid-'60s albums. Almost half the record features Broadway tunes on the order of Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hammerstein; most of the rest was composed by Bennie Benjamin, author of her first-rate "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," which the Animals covered for a hit shortly afterwards (and which leads off this record). The other Benjamin tunes are modified uptown soul with string arrangements and backup vocals in the vein of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," but aren't in the same league, although "How Can I?" is an engaging cha cha. Besides "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," the album is most notable for the great "SeeLine Woman," a percolating call-and-response number that ranks as one of her best tracks. The CD reissue includes the strange bonus cut "The Monster," an odd attempt at a soul novelty tune.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide



Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933–2003). It was her second album for Philips. In contrast to her first Philips album, the live In Concert, which was politically laden with civil rights motifs, this studio album is more playful. It is not regarded as one of Simone's best efforts, though it contains songs that became standards in her repertoire.

"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" was written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus and is one of Simone's most well known songs. Arranger and Conductor Horace Ott co-wrote this song, but credited it under his wife's name Gloria Caldwell. "How Can I?", "I Am Blessed", "Don't Take All Night", "Of This I'm Sure", "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" were also written by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus. "See Line Woman" became a standard in Simone's live repertoire. It is loosely based on a traditional children's song, "Sea Lion Woman."

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