Nina Simone - Very Best Of Nina Simone - Limited 180-Gram Crystal Clear Vinyl - VINYL LP

VIRGIN 180G. VINYL - GATEFOLD EDITION. This set presents some of Nina Simone's greatest hits. Among them the perennial InchI Loves You PorgyInch, which bcharted at #2 in the UK and #18 in the USA in 1959, InchNobody Know You When You're Down and OutInch (#23 in the UK; #93 in the USA in 1960), and InchTrouble in MindInch (#11 in the UK; #92 in the USA in 1961). InchMy Baby Just Cares for MeInch wasn't a hit at the time it was recorded, but after director Ridley Scott featured Nina's recording of that song in a 1987 Chanel commercial starring actress Carole Bouquet, it became one of Simone's biggest hits almost 19 years after her previous chart entry. In 1987 it went to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.

Vinyl LP pressing. Pastel Blues features InchBe My HusbandInch and was written by Andrew Stroud, Simone's husband and manager at the time. She sings it a cappella with her handclapping and a hi-hat as her only accompaniment. The song was later retitled as InchBe Your HusbandInch and covered by Jeff Buckley on Live at Sin-é (2003). The album also features covers of Billie Holiday songs, InchTell Me More and More and Then SomeInch and InchStrange Fruit.Inch Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Simone's musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

At the Village Gate followed the enormous success of Nina Simone's first InchliveInch LP, which she had recorded at Town Hall, in New York, on September 12, 1959. That same year, she had signed a contract with the New York-based tag Colpix Records. She recorded her second album for them, The Amazing Nina Simone, which contained the original studio version of InchChildren Go Where I Send You, Inch also performed at the Village Gate. The two bonus performances that follow the eight on the original album are thought to be from the same Village Gate gig. They consist of the Israeli song InchVaynikehuInch and InchSinnerman.Inch She would record the latter again for the Philips tag in 1964. THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 2 BONUS TRACKS- 180-GRAM CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL - LIMITED EDITION