Live at Ronnie Scott's (Nina Simone album)
| Live at Ronnie Scott's | ||||
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Recorded | November 17, 1984 | |||
| Venue | Ronnie Scott's, London | |||
| Genre | Vocal, soul, jazz, folk | |||
| Length | 56:37 | |||
| Label | Hendring-Wadham | |||
| Producer | Eddie Singleton | |||
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Live at Ronnie Scott's is an album by American singer-songwriter Nina Simone. It is a live recording of a concert she gave at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1984, a London venue where she performed a few times in her later life.
Information about songs on this album
- "Fodder In Her Wings" and "I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive", Nina first recorded these self-written songs on Fodder On My Wings (1982). Both are very personal to her, talking about Nina's estrangement from people and closing a bad chapter and beginning a new one.
- "Be My Husband", written by her ex-husband and ex-manager Andrew Stroud, first featured on Pastel Blues (1965). Later covered by Jeff Buckley as "Be Your Husband".
- "I Loves You Porgy", her first hit-single from her debut Little Girl Blue (1958).
- "Mississippi Goddam", Nina wrote this civil rights song after four black girls died during a church bombing, first featured on Nina Simone in Concert (1964).
- "Moon over Alabama", together with "Mississippi Goddam". Nina sings this song to show that the two songs have a similar melody. She, therefore, switches between them during the performance.
- "My Baby Just Cares For Me", Nina introduces this last song with:
She often did that when performing it live in her later years. It is the song that brought her back into the limelight after it featured in a commercial in 1982, yet it wasn't a song she particularly liked or wished to be remembered by.[1]I think this is what you've all been waiting for...
Track listing
All music is composed by Nina Simone, except where indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "God God God" | Paramahansa Yogananda, Simone | |
| 2. | "If You Knew" | ||
| 3. | "Mr. Smith" | Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht | |
| 4. | "Fodder in Her Wings" | ||
| 5. | "Be My Husband" | Simone, Andrew Stroud | |
| 6. | "I Loves You Porgy" | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward | |
| 7. | "The Other Woman" | Simone, Jessie Mae Robinson | |
| 8. | "Mississippi Goddam" | ||
| 9. | "Moon Over Alabama" | Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht | |
| 10. | "For a While" | Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes | |
| 11. | "See Line Woman" | George Houston Bass | |
| 12. | "I Sing Just to Know That I'm Alive" | ||
| 13. | "My Baby Just Cares for Me" | Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson | |
| Total length: | 56:37 | ||
Personnel
- Nina Simone - vocals, piano
- Paul Robinson - drums
References
- ^ Simone, Nina; Cleary, Stephen. I Put A Spell On You, 1992 (Da Capo Press), ISBN 0-679-41068-6