Little Girl Blue
Nina Simone
JazzModern Jazz VocalsStandardsTorch SongsVocalVocal Jazz
1959 | DSF DSD64 | 11 tracks · 45:32
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Little Girl Blue (also known as Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club) is the debut album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone, released by Bethlehem Records. Simone was in her mid-20s at the time, and still aspiring to be a classical concert pianist. She immediately sold the rights for the songs on this album to Bethlehem for $3,000 (US$25,446 in 2017 dollars), with the deal eventually costing her royalty profits of more than a million dollars. Simone was dissatisfied by the lack of effort the record company took in promoting her, and after this album

Nina Simone

1Mood Indigo♡4:06Irving Mills / Duke Ellington / Barney Bigard
2Don’t Smoke in Bed♡3:15Willard Robison
3He Needs Me♡2:32Arthur Hamilton
4Little Girl Blue♡4:20Sarah Latto / Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
5Love Me or Leave Me♡3:25Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
6My Baby Just Cares for Me♡3:40Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn
7Good Bait♡5:32Count Basie / Tadd Dameron
8Plain Gold Ring♡3:57Blue Sky Black Death / Earl Burroughs / George Stone
9You’Ll Never Walk Alone♡3:49Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II
10I Loves You, Porgy♡4:12Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / George Gershwin
11Central Park Blues♡6:49Nina Simone

Credits

Bass — Jimmy Bond Drums — Albert Heath Piano — Nina Simone Vocals — Nina Simone

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