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Released
  
1966

Artist
  
Nina Simone

Producer
  
Hal Mooney

Length
  
37:03

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Philips Records

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Recorded
  
New York City, March 21, April 1 and April 6, 1964 (live), on September 30 October 1, 1965, and other dates.

Let It All Out (1966)
  
Wild Is the Wind (1966)

Genres
  
Blues, Jazz, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Pop music, Folk music, Vocal music

Similar
  
Broadway‑Blues‑Ballads, Pastel Blues, Folksy Nina, Black Gold, Fodder on My Wings

Let It All Out is an album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. Released in 1966, it was her fifth album with Philips Records. Some of the tracks are live recordings, yet it is unclear which.

Contents

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Information about songs on this album

  • "Images", sung a cappella by Simone, based on a poem by Waring Cuney. It was a live recording sung a cappella during the same performance of songs that featured on Nina Simone In Concert (1964).
  • "Love Me or Leave Me" and "Mood Indigo" were also featured on Simone's debut album Little Girl Blue (1958); these are new performances and different arrangements.

    • Track listing

    1. "Mood Indigo" (Irving Mills, Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington)
    2. "The Other Woman" (Jessie Mae Robinson)
    3. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn)
    4. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
    5. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
    6. "Chauffeur" (Andy Stroud)
    7. "For Myself" (Van McCoy)
    8. "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" (Bob Dylan)
    9. "This Year's Kisses" (Irving Berlin)
    10. "Images" (Nina Simone, Waring Cuney)
    11. "Nearer Blessed Lord" (Stroud)

    Personnel

  • Nina Simone - piano, vocals
  • Al Shackman - guitar
  • Rudy Stevenson - guitar, flute
  • Lisle Atkinson - bass
  • Bobby Hamilton - drums
  • Horace Ott - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Mood Indigo2:28
    2The Other Woman3:05
    3Love Me or Leave Me4:07

    References

    Let It All Out Wikipedia
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