01. Mood Indigo
02. Don't Smoke In Bed
03. He Needs Me
04. Little Girl Blue
05. Love Me Or Leave
06. My
Baby Just Cares For Me
07. Good Bait
08. Plain Old Ring
09. You'll Never Walk Alone
10. I Loves You Porgy
11. Central Park Blues
12. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
13. For All We Know
14. African Mailman
15. My Baby Just Cares For Me (Ext. Version)
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To fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano. In 1954 she adopted the stage name Nina Simone. "Nina" (from niña, meaning 'little girl' in Spanish) was a nickname a boyfriend had given to her, and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the movie Casque d'or. Simone's mixture of jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small, but loyal, fan base.
In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage.After playing in small clubs, in 1958 she recorded a rendition of George Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only Billboard top 40 success in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue soon followed on Bethlehem Records. Simone missed out on more than $1 million in royalties (mainly because of the successful re-release of My Baby Just Cares for Me during the 1980s) and never benefited financially from the album, because she had sold her rights to it for $3,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone
