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Nina Simone at Town Hall

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Released
  
1959

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Colpix Records

Artist
  
Nina Simone

Producer
  
Jack Gold

Genres
  
Jazz, Blues, Folk music

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Recorded
  
live at The Town Hall New York City September 15, 1959 studio tracks recorded the following month

Nina Simone at Town Hall (1959)
  
Nina Simone at Newport (1960)

Similar
  
Nina Simone albums, Blues albums

Nina Simone at Town Hall is a 1959 live album by Nina Simone. It was recorded live at The Town Hall, New York, on 15 September 1959 and released as her second album for Colpix Records that same year. Some of the songs were featured in the concert but were re-recorded in a studio for the album. The cover photography was credited to Herb Snitzer.

Contents

Information about songs on this album

  • "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" also features on the albums Wild Is the Wind (1966) and Black Gold (1970).
  • "The Other Woman" is written by Jessie Mae Robinson and also features on the albums Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall (1963), Let It All Out (1966), and Live at Ronnie Scott's (1984). The song was covered by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey and is the eleventh track on her third studio album, Ultraviolence (2014).
  • "Wild Is the Wind" also features on the album Wild Is the Wind (1966).

    • Track listing

    1. "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional) - 3:31
    2. "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 3:13
    3. "The Other Woman" (Jessie Mae Robinson) - 3:00
    4. "Under the Lowest" (Simone) - 5:32
    5. "You Can Have Him" (Irving Berlin) - 5:49
    6. "Summertime (Instr.)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 2:54
    7. "Summertime (Vocal)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 2:41
    8. "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Traditional) - 2:51
    9. "Return Home" (Simone) - 5:27
    10. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:28
    11. "Fine and Mellow" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 3:32

    Songs

    1Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair3:29
    2Exactly Like You3:14
    3The Other Woman2:57

    References

    Nina Simone at Town Hall Wikipedia
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