| New York, 1959 Sep. 12 Live session at Town Hall | ||
| Al "Tootie" Heath, drums -- Jimmy Bond, bass -- Nina Simone, vocal, piano | ||
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Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Traditional
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Cotton Eyed Joe
Traditional
-- no bass, drums
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Exactly Like You
Dorothy Fields, Jimmy MacHugh
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Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday
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Return Home
(Instrumental) Nina Simone
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Summertime
DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin
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Summertime
DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin
-- Instrumental version
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The Other Woman
Jesse Mae Robinson
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Under the Lowest
(Instrumental) Nina Simone
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Wild Is the Wind
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
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You Can Have Him (I Don't Want Him)
Irving Berlin
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| Produced by Bob Blake and Jack Gold. Some tracks are on At Town Hall. Other tracks were rerecorded in studio the following month. "You Can Have Him" also on single Colpix 608. "The day of the show I dressed in a long white gown draped over one shoulder and white satin shoes. Don was with me that evening because I was a little nervous - not on performing, but of being around so many people backstage. I needed a familiar face. I stood in the wings and looked out at the audience, sitting in neat rows with no drinks in thei hands, no cigarette girls walking up and down to distract them, and no out-of-tune piano to ruin my performance. The MC called my name and I walked on like an Egyptian queen - slow, calm and serious. ... Colpix recorded the concert and released it as Nina Simone at Town Hall, so if you don't believe me you can listen for yourself. The reviews were the best I had ever had. I was a sensation. An overnight success, like in the movies." (From Nina's autobiography.) |
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Comments to Mauro Boscarol |
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