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Nina Simone

Title: The Nina Simone Collection (3CD)

Label: Metro

Cat No:METRTCD821
Format:CD

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Discovery Records
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Nina Simone led a life that can be described as purposeful and extraordinary. Presented here is a 3 CD box set that narrates her life of music and adversity.

She was the sixth of a family of seven, born into a poor, segregated community in North Carolina. Sixty seven years later, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music and Humanities and became Dr. Nina Simone.

Throughout her career, many of her self-penned songs reflected the gritty, bigoted feelings that engulfed 1950s/60s America. Included in this box set are “Mississippi Goddam” a poignant expression of the bombing of a church in Birmingham in 1963; “Four Women” a tale of different lives led by American black women, and the legendary “Young, Gifted and Black” which chronicled the Civil Rights Movement.

Alongside her strong social morals, her most famous works “My Baby Just Cares For Me”; “I Loves You Porgy” and “Good Bait” crossed her over to an international audience. This allowed her to make known the injustices she endured as a child and publicly speak out about the society in which she was raised.

This box set features works from all periods of her career, and shows the depth and power of her musicality and social ethos. This is a must-have guide to one woman’s work whose spirit can never be repressed.

Track Listing for The Nina Simone Collection (3CD)
CD1
I Loves You Porgy
Love Me Or Leave Me
Mood Indigo
You'll Never Walk Alone
Little Girl Blue
My Baby Just Cares For Me
Good Bait
Plain Gold Ring
Central Park Blues
African Mailman
See Line Woman
When I Was A Young Girl
Please Read Me *
For A While *
House Of The Rising Sun*

CD2
To Be Young, Gifted And Black*
The Assignment Song *
I’ll Look Around*
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood*
No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed*
Gin House Blues *
After You've Gone*
Ain't No Use *
Blues *
Zungo *
Pirate Jenny*
Somebody To Love
Don't Smoke In Bed
You Took My Teeth *

CD3
The Other Woman *
Mississsippi Goddam *
Four Women *
I Want A Little In My Bowl *
Do What You Gotta Do *
Ne me Quitte Pas *
He Needs Me
He's Got The Whole World
Backlash Blues *
For All We KnowCotton Eyed Joe*Ain't Got No; I Got Life *Sunday In Savannah *When I Was In My Prime **Live tracks

Discovery catalogue available for
Nina Simone

The Nina Simone Collection (3CD)

At Town Hall (180g)

Fodder on my Wings

The Essential Collection (2CD)

The Essential

Classic Hits

The Essential Collection (3CD) Tin

The Very Best Of (2CD)

At Town Hall

The Amazing

Love Me Or Leave Me (2CD)

Essential Collection (2CD & DVD)

Sings Ellington + At Newport + bonus track

At The Village Gate + 6 bonus tracks