Nina Simone's Finest Hour

by Simone

Overview

Verve's Finest Hour collection of Nina Simone's work compiles 60 minutes of career highlights, including "Wild Is the Wind," "I Put a Spell on You," "Four Women," "I Loves You, Porgy," and "My Baby Just Cares for Me." Though it's by no means a definitive compilation of Simone's music, it does provide a welcome overview of her Verve years. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	06/13/2000
Label:	Verve / Ims / Polygram
UPC:	0731454360425

Tracks

1. Love Me or Leave Me
2. Wild Is the Wind
3. I Put a Spell on You
4. Work Song
5. Don't Explain
6. Mississippi Goddam
7. Four Women
8. Pirate Jenny
9. I Loves You, Porgy
10. This Year's Kisses
11. Little Girl Blue
12. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
13. Ne Me Quitte Pas
14. Don't Smoke in Bed
15. [Untitled Track]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Billy Vera   Sequencing
Horace Ott   Conductor
Hal Mooney   Conductor
Bobby Hamilton   Drums
Rudy Stevenson   Guitar
Lisle Atkinson   Bass

Technical Credits

Nat Adderley   Composer
Gloria Caldwell   Composer
Peter Keepnews   Notes Editing
Hollis King   Creative Director
Jeff Willens   Mastering
Cynthia Sesso   Photography
John Wriggle   Research Assistant
Eunice Waymon   Composer
Sherniece Smith   Art Producer
Robert Appleton   Art Direction
Sol Marcus   Composer
Bertolt Brecht   Composer
Billy Vera   Liner Notes
Billie Holiday   Composer
Arthur Herzog, Jr.   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Jacques Brel   Composer
Bennie Benjamin   Composer
Carlos Kase   Research Coordination,Production Coordination
Walter Donaldson   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Horace Ott   Arranger
Screamin' Jay Hawkins   Composer
Tom Greenwood   Research Coordination,Production Coordination
Nina Simone   Composer
Hal Mooney   Arranger,Producer
Gus Kahn   Composer
William Robinson   Composer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Willard Robison   Composer
Ben Young   Research
Marc Blitzstein   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
Ned Washington   Composer
Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
Oscar Brown, Jr.   Composer