The Nina Simone Web - Songs directory
   New York, 1959 Studio session
  Bob Mersey, conductor of a large band -- Nina Simone, vocal, piano
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  Blue Prelude   Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop
  Can't Get Out of This Mood   Jimmy MacHugh, Loesser
  Children Go Where I Send You   Traditional
  Chilly Winds Don't Blow   H. Krasnow, B. Lovelock
  It Might As Well Be Spring   Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
  Solitaire   Carl Nutter, Renee Borek, King Guion
  Stompin' At the Savoy   Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Edgar Sampson, Andy Razaf
  That's Him Over There   Marilyn Bergman, Lew Spence
  Theme from "Middle of the Night"   George Bassman, Chayefsky
  Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)   Gale, Silverman
  Willow Weep For Me   Ann Ronell
  You've Been Gone Too Long   Sellers
   
  Arrangements and conduction by Bob Mersey. Production by Hecky Krasnow.
This is Nina's first session with Colpix. All tracks were released on the LP The Amazing in 1959, her debut album on Colpix Records. "Solitaire" has also been released on single Colpix 116.
According to the liner notes for The Amazing, Nina was "auditioned" by Colpix's Paul Wexler after Columbia Pictures talent scout and famed producer, Joyce Selznick, had brought her to his attention. Nina was immediately signed to a long term contract.

"She [Joyce Selznick] wanted to sign me to her label. My agreement with Bethlehem was for only one album, so Colpix moved in and offered me a long-term deal. Max Cohen negotiated it for me and we signed the contract in April.
My first album for Colpix was The Amazing Nina Simone, but before it even came out Bethlehem had released a rival, Nina Simone and Her Friends, which contained the few remaining songs that we had decided not to use on Little Girl Blue."
(From Nina's autobiography.)
   
 
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