The Nina Simone Web - Songs directory
   New York, 1959 Sep. 12 Live session at Town Hall
  Al "Tootie" Heath, drums -- Jimmy Bond, bass -- Nina Simone, vocal, piano
  Show records
   
  Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Traditional
  Cotton Eyed Joe   Traditional -- no bass, drums
  Exactly Like You   Dorothy Fields, Jimmy MacHugh
  Fine and Mellow   Billie Holiday
  Return Home (Instrumental)   Nina Simone
  Summertime   DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin
  Summertime   DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin -- Instrumental version
  The Other Woman   Jesse Mae Robinson
  Under the Lowest (Instrumental)   Nina Simone
  Wild Is the Wind   Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
  You Can Have Him (I Don't Want Him)   Irving Berlin
   
  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.
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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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