Nina Simone - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020] + Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025] (4 x CDs)

NINA SIMONE SINGLES

Nina Simone - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020] + Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025] (4 x CDs)

Nina Simone’s story is often told through albums, but her singles reveal something different, a musician shaping her identity one recording at a time, responding to the world with clarity, courage and emotional truth. These two collections, the early Complete 1957–62 Singles and the expansive Let It All Out set, trace her evolution from a young pianist‑singer finding her voice to a fully formed artist whose work carried political weight, cultural pride and deep personal resonance.

The first set captures Simone before fame hardened into expectation. The singles from Bethlehem, Colpix and early Philips sessions show her balancing jazz phrasing, classical discipline and a quiet intensity that made even small songs feel significant. I Loves You, Porgy, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Will I Find My Love Today, each track carries a sense of discovery. Her piano lines are crisp, her vocals poised, and the arrangements leave space for her to shape mood with subtle shifts in tone. These recordings feel close, almost intimate, as if she is still deciding how much of herself to reveal.

The second collection widens the frame. By the early sixties Simone had become a force, and the singles from 1961 to 1978 show her pushing outward, emotionally, politically, musically. Mississippi Goddam, To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Backlash Blues, Four Women, songs that confront injustice with precision and fire. Alongside them sit ballads, folk interpretations, soul‑leaning arrangements and late‑period tracks shaped by exile and reflection. Her voice grows darker, richer, more deliberate. The piano becomes a weapon, the phrasing sharper, the emotional stakes higher. These singles document an artist who refused to soften her truth for commercial comfort. (B)

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Track lists

Nina Simone - Complete 1957-62 Singles [2020]

CD1

01 Nina Simone - Chilly Winds Don't Blow 2:47

02 Nina Simone - Solitaire 3:24

03 Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy 4:09

04 Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me 3:22

05 Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue 4:18

06 Nina Simone - He Needs Me 2:30

07 Nina Simone - Children Go Where I Send You 2:52

08 Nina Simone - Willow Weep for Me 3:13

09 Nina Simone - Don't Smoke in Bed 3:12

10 Nina Simone - African Mailman 3:10

11 Nina Simone - The Other Woman 2:57

12 Nina Simone - It Might as Well Be Spring 3:56

13 Nina Simone - Mood Indigo 4:03

14 Nina Simone - Central Park Blues 6:50

15 Nina Simone - For All We Know 4:02

16 Nina Simone - Good Bait 5:29

17 Nina Simone - Summertime 5:40

18 Nina Simone - Fine and Mellow 3:30

19 Nina Simone - You'll Never Walk Alone 3:47

20 Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring 3:52

CD2

01 Nina Simone - Since My Lover Has Gone 2:49

02 Nina Simone - Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More) 3:02

03 Nina Simone - He's Got The Whole World in His Hands 3:10

04 Nina Simone - If Only for Tonight 3:02

05 Nina Simone - Under The Lowest 5:26

06 Nina Simone - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 2:42

07 Nina Simone - Black is The Color of My True Love's Hai 3:32

08 Nina Simone - Trouble in Mind 5:44

09 Nina Simone - Cotton-Eyed Joe 2:56

10 Nina Simone - Work Song 2:35

11 Nina Simone - Memphis in June 2:38

12 Nina Simone - Gin House Blues 3:03

13 Nina Simone - Come on Back, Jack 2:17

14 Nina Simone - You've Been Gone Too Long 2:11

15 Nina Simone - In The Evening By The Moonlight 6:15

16 Nina Simone - You Can Have Him 5:53

17 Nina Simone - I Got it Bad (And That Ain't Good) 4:07

18 Nina Simone - I Want A Little Sugar in My Bowl 2:45

19 Nina Simone - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 2:50

20 Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me 3:36

CD3

01 Nina Simone - Hey, Buddy Bolden 2:27

02 Nina Simone - Exactly Like You 3:11

03 Nina Simone - Merry Mending 2:35

04 Nina Simone - Something to Live For 2:56

05 Nina Simone - You Better Know It 2:25

06 Nina Simone - I Like The Sunrise (From The Liberian Suite) 3:01

07 Nina Simone - It Don't Mean A Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing) 2:33

08 Nina Simone - The Gal From Joe's 2:14

09 Nina Simone - I Can't Get Out of This Mood 2:33

10 Nina Simone - Wild is The Wind 3:33

11 Nina Simone - That's Him Over There 2:32

12 Nina Simone - Where Can I Go Without You 2:51

13 Nina Simone - You've Been Gone Too Long (nº2) 2:11

14 Nina Simone - Stompin' at The Savoy 2:09

15 Nina Simone - Little Liza Jane 4:36

16 Nina Simone - Return Home 5:25

17 Nina Simone - Rags and Old Iron 4:09

18 Nina Simone - No Good Man 3:39

19 Nina Simone - I'll Look Around 5:05

20 Nina Simone - I Love to Love 3:22

Nina Simone - Let It All Out, Selected Singles 1961-1978 [2025]

01 Nina Simone - Work Song 2:35

02 Nina Simone - Gin House Blues 3:02

03 Nina Simone - Come on Back, Jack 2:16

04 Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me 3:42

05 Nina Simone - I Put A Spell on You 2:35

06 Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 2:45

07 Nina Simone - Either Way I Lose 2:46

08 Nina Simone - Break Down and Let it All Out 2:38

09 Nina Simone - Don't You Pay Them No Mind 3:04

10 Nina Simone - Do I Move You 2:45

11 Nina Simone - It Be's That Way Sometime 2:56

12 Nina Simone - To Love Somebody 2:39

13 Nina Simone - Why? (The King of Love is Dead) (Pts 1 & 2) 5:33

14 Nina Simone - Do What You Gotta Do 3:35

15 Nina Simone - Ain't Got No;I Got Life (US single version) 2:53

16 Nina Simone - Real Real 2:20

17 Nina Simone - Suzanne 4:19

18 Nina Simone - Revolution (Pt 1) 2:50

19 Nina Simone - To Be Young, Gifted and Black 2:48

20 Nina Simone - Save Me 3:24

21 Nina Simone - Whatever I Am (You Made Me) 3:04

22 Nina Simone - Ooh Child 3:16

23 Nina Simone - Baltimore 4:38

24 Nina Simone - Ain't Go No; I Got Life (UK single version) 2:05

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