Broadway-Blues-Ballads
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1964
RecordedNew York City, 1964
GenreVocal, soul, jazz, folk, blues
LabelPhilips
ProducerHal Mooney
Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone in Concert
(1964)
Broadway-Blues-Ballads
(1964)
I Put a Spell on You
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Pitchfork Media8.0/10[3]

Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by the singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone, released in 1964.[2] The album features Simone singing a few standards and folk songs, as well as six compositions by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus.

Track listing

  1. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:46
  2. "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
  3. "The Laziest Gal in Town" (Cole Porter) - 2:19
  4. "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
  5. "Don't Take All Night" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
  6. "Nobody" (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
  7. "I Am Blessed" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
  8. "Of This I'm Sure" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
  9. "See-Line Woman" ([traditional] American folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
  10. "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
  11. "How Can I?" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
  12. "The Last Rose of Summer" (Thomas Moore, Richard Alfred Milliken, Nina Simone) - 3:08
  • on some CD releases the single "A Monster" is added as a bonus track. (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:47

Personnel

References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 470.
  3. Wallace, Carvell (30 July 2016). "Nina Simone : Broadway-Blues-Ballads". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
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