Product Description

Nina Simone’s Greatest Hits gives a great introduction to one of the world’s most gifted singers ever. Features "My Baby Just Cares For Me", "Mr. Bojangles", "The Look Of Love" and "Backlash Blues".

Track Listing

1. My Baby Just Cares For Me
2. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
3. Ain’t Got No - I Got Life
4. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
5. Mr. Bojangles
6. Here Comes The Sun
7. To Love Somebody
8. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
9. Do I Move You
10. My Man’s Gone Now
11. Backlash Blues
12. Since I Fell For You
13. Turn Me On
14. Compensation
15. Suzanne
16. Just Like A Woman
17. Let It Be Me
18. In The Morning
19. Do What You Gotta Do
20. Save Me
21. The Look Of Love
22. Why? (The king Of Love Is Dead)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26821 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

inspiring
This in my opinion is the best Nina Simone album. It is a great mixture of both old jazz and blues classics and covers of more modern songs. Totally inspiring, I would recomend this to any Simone fan. You will not be dissappointed!

This Is Not Her Best
Unfortunately this uses too much late material when her voice has deteriorated and also when the recording is actually worse than in the early years. There is much better recorded material out there, even the live albums are better than this. It only gets 2 stars because the first and last tracks are excellent, but the material fillers in between should be considered poor at best. If this was the only album you had by Nina Simone you'd seriously wonder what all the fuss was about.

Great gift for Nina beginners
As a Nina lover, I liked this CD. It makes a good effort at bringing together a varied combination of tunes to give an overview of her musical versatility and possibly a great way to introduce her work to someone who may not know much about it (and believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there!). The choice of songs is interesting because there's a bit of everything... love, despair, hope, anger...

I disagree with other reviews that question the choice of recordings because of her voice. I think you can appreciate the maturity of her voice in some of the songs and of course, she was not going to sound like in the 60s forever, but I think that until her last performance she made songs her own and the strength of her character and performance came across every time.