Nine CD clamshell box featuring a 34 page booklet with the story about Nina Simone, beautiful pictures and all the information about the CDs, all from the RCA collection. Nina Simone's concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was 12. An upcoming talent. Her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. An emerging civil rights activist was formed. In 1958 she recorded her first studio album for Bethlehem Records, followed by Colpix and Philips and in 1967 RCA Victor. 'Nuff Said! Spawned the hitsingles "Ain't Got No - I Got Life" and the Bee Gees cover "To Love Somebody". After "Mississippi Goddam", from the same album, a civil rights message was the norm in Simone's recordings and became part of her concerts. In 1969 Simone recorded "To Be Young, Gifted And Black". Renditions of the song have been recorded by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway.
9 I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
10 The Desperate Ones
11 Music for Lovers
12 In Love in Vain
13 I'll Look Around
14 The Man with the Horn
15 I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Live)
- Disc 5 -
1 Suzanne
2 Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season)
3 Revolution (Part 1)
4 Revolution (Part 2)
5 To Love Somebody
6 I Shall Be Released
7 I Can't See Nobody
8 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
9 The Times They Are a Changin'
10 Suzanne (Alternate Version)
11 Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season) (Alternate Version)
12 Revolution (Live)
13 Save Me (Live)
14 The Glory of Love
15 Cosi Ti Amo (To Love Somebody) (Italian Version)
- Disc 6 -
1 Introduction
2 Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair
3 Ain't Got No - I Got Life
4 Westwind
5 Who Knows Where the Time Goes
6 The Assignment Sequence
7 To Be Young, Gifted and Black
8 Suzanne
9 No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
10 The Other Woman (Live)
11 Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is a Season) (Live)
12 To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Single)
- Disc 7 -
1 Here Comes the Sun
2 Just Like a Woman
3 O-O-H Child
4 Mr. Bojangles
5 New World Coming
6 Angel of the Morning
7 How Long Must I Wonder
8 My Way
9 Tanywey
10 My Father
11 Jelly Roll
12 Tell It Like It Is
13 22nd Century
14 What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
- Disc 8 -
1 My Sweet Lord/Today Is a Killer
2 Poppies
3 Isn't It a Pity
4 Let It Be Me
- Disc 9 -
1 The Pusher
2 Com' By H'yere Good Lord
3 Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
4 Mr. Bojangles
5 I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
6 Dambala
7 Let It Be Me
8 Obeah Woman
9 Nina
10 Zungo
11 Thandewye A.K.A. a Charge to Keep
Nine CD clamshell box featuring a 34 page booklet with the story about Nina Simone, beautiful pictures and all the information about the CDs, all from the RCA collection. Nina Simone's concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was 12. An upcoming talent. Her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. An emerging civil rights activist was formed. In 1958 she recorded her first studio album for Bethlehem Records, followed by Colpix and Philips and in 1967 RCA Victor. 'Nuff Said! Spawned the hitsingles "Ain't Got No - I Got Life" and the Bee Gees cover "To Love Somebody". After "Mississippi Goddam", from the same album, a civil rights message was the norm in Simone's recordings and became part of her concerts. In 1969 Simone recorded "To Be Young, Gifted And Black". Renditions of the song have been recorded by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway.