The Complete RCA Albums Collection

by Nina Simone

Overview

Nina Simone was a singular artist, and she went where she pleased, leaving behind a recorded legacy that is passionate, political, defiant, and delicate by turns, no matter what strain of folk, blues, jazz, or gospel she was dipping into, and she did it all with dignity, grace, and intelligence. This set collects all nine of her albums for RCA Records (released between 1967 and 1974), and thus includes some of her greatest recordings. Signature songs like "I Loves You, Porgy," "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" (in a couple of versions), and "Mississippi Goddam" (a Simone original -- one wishes she had written more than she did) are all here, along with powerful versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Willie Dixon, the Beatles, and Randy Newman, among others. Simone didn't just sing a song. She made it hers. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	09/27/2019
Label:	Music On Cd / Music On Vinyl
UPC:	8718627230244
Rank:	27808

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Organ,Piano,Vocals,Conductor
Mel Tax   Sax (Baritone),Flute,Sax (Alto),Flute (Bass)
Jack Zayde   Violin
Barbara Webb   Vocals (Background)
Martin Grupp   Marimba,Timpani
Vito Tommaso   Conductor
Thomas Smith   Guitar
David Sackson   Violin
Mac Cooper   Viola
Coro Nora Orlandi   Vocals (Background)
Erin Hayes   Piano
Maurice Balkin   Cello
Jennies Durham   Vocals (Background)
Sam Wayman   Organ
Buddy Lucas   Harmonica,Sax (Tenor)
Kermit Moore   Cello
Haywood Henry   Saxophone
Alvin Rogers   Percussion
Arthur "Babe" Clarke   Saxophone
Emile Latimer   Guitar,Vocals
Virdia Crawford   Vocals (Background)
Montego Joe   Percussion
Marty Markowitz   Trumpet
Dominic Gravine   Trumpet,Trumpet (Bass)
Gordon Powell   Drums,Percussion,Vibraphone
Jerome Graff   Vocals (Background)
Lisa Stroud   Vocals
Louis Haber   Violin
Sammy Lowe   Conductor
Nadi Qamar   Percussion
Jerry Jemmott   Bass
Michael Comins   Violin
Wilbur Bascomb   Trumpet
Essien Nkrumah   Percussion
Julius Brand   Violin
Ralph H. Fields   Vocals (Background)
Samuel Wayman   Organ,Vocals
Noah Hopkins   Vocals (Background)
Heywood Henry   Saxophone
Richard Harris   Trombone
Harold Johnson   Trumpet
David Spinoza   Guitar
Gene Taylor   Bass
Irving Spice   Violin
Henry Young   Guitar
George Marge   Flute,Clarinet,Clarinet (Bass)
Harold Wheeler   Conductor
Buck Clarke   Drums
Lewis Eley   Violin
Maeretha Stewart   Vocals (Background)
Seymour Barab   Cello
George Devens   Percussion
George Coleman   Saxophone
Seldon Powell   Flute (Alto),Saxophone,Sax (Tenor)
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie   Drums,Timpani
Gene Orloff   Viola
Paul Griffin   Piano
Bob Bushnell   Bass
Don Alias   Drums,Percussion
Gene Perla   Bass
Garnett Brown   Trombone
Ernie Royal   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Marky Markowitz   Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Gina Rothchild   Vocals (Background)
Ernie Calabria   Guitar
Hilda Harris   Vocals (Background)
Joe Shepley   Trumpet
Jimmy Nottingham   Trumpet
Weldon Irvine   Organ,Conductor
Horace Ott   Conductor
Jerome Richardson   Flute,Flute (Bass),Sax (Baritone)
Chuck Rainey   Bass
Everett Barksdale   Guitar
Jimmy Wisner   Conductor
Jumma Santos   Percussion
Emedin Rivera   Percussion
Eric Gale   Guitar
Ernie Hayes   Organ,Piano,Harpsichord
Richie Resnicoff   Guitar
Eileen Gilbert   Vocals (Background)
Doris Willingham   Vocals (Background)
Jimmy Cleveland   Trombone
Richard Tee   Organ
Rudy Stevenson   Guitar
Carl Lynch   Guitar
Mel Davis   Trumpet
Milt Grayson   Vocals (Background)
Norris Turney   Saxophone
Stuart Scharf   Guitar
Al Schackman   Sitar,Guitar
Specs Powell   Percussion,Tambourine,Vibraphone
Alfred Brown   Viola

Technical Credits

Michael Panico   Archival Assistant
Paul Lawrence Dunbar   Composer
Tom Tierney   Archival Assistant
Pierre Delanoe   Composer
Jan Hendin   Composer
Franco Boldrini   Composer
Garry Gibb   Composer
Claude Revaux   Composer
Thomas Harold Thydanic   Composer
Tony MacKay   Composer
Sam Wayman   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Barry Gibb   Composer
Gilbert Becaud   Composer
William Salter   Composer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Maria Triana   Mastering
Aretha Franklin   Composer
Alan Price   Arranger
Caiphus Semenya   Composer
Gloria Caldwell   Composer
Henry Troy   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Bart Howard   Composer
Seth Rothstein   Project Director
Morris Bailey Jr.   Composer
Hoyt Axton   Composer
Hugh MacKay   Composer
Richie Havens   Composer
Sammy Lowe   Arranger
Richard Seidel   Producer,Liner Notes
Nick Woods   Composer
Randy Evretts   Composer
Mark Wilder   Mastering
Danny Davis   Producer
Gerard Emile Jouannest   Composer
Jeremy Wind   Composer
Edward O'Dowd   Design,Art Direction
Gilles Thibaut   Composer
Charles Reuben   Composer
Lenny Bleecher   Composer
Martha Holmes   Composer
John Clifford   Composer
Lil Green   Composer
Mike Kull   Tape Research
Mann Curtis   Composer
Gene Taylor   Composer
Che Williams   Archival Assistant
Milton Puma   Photo Retouching
George Cory   Composer
Buddy Johnson   Composer
Harold Wheeler   Arranger,Producer
Thomas Dorsey   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
Gerome Ragni   Composer
Aillene Bullock   Composer
David Bryan   Composer
George Davis   Composer
Stan Vincent   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Terry Kirkman   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Andy Stroud   Composer
Sol Marcus   Composer
Angelo Badalamenti   Composer
Babatunde Olatunji   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Paul Anka   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Billy Taylor   Composer
Billy Hill   Composer
Chip Taylor   Composer
Curtis Ousley   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Ed Begley   Engineer
Carolyn Franklin   Composer
Joe Rene   Producer
Leo Robin   Composer
Robin Gibb   Composer
Tony Mckay   Composer
Jerry Jeff Walker   Composer
Ray Hall   Engineer
Virdia Crawford   Composer
George Harrison   Composer
Dick Dallas   Composer
John D. Loudermilk   Composer
David Nelson   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Weldon Irvine   Arranger,Composer
Sandy Denny   Composer
Nat Shapiro   Producer
Jonathan King   Composer
Horace Ott   Arranger
Pete Seeger   Composer,Adaptation
Leonard Cohen   Composer
Bonnie Lake   Composer
Eddie DeLange   Composer
Jack Jenney   Composer
Langston Hughes   Composer
Jacques Brel   Composer
Jimmy Webb   Composer
Jimmy Wisner   Arranger
Cynthia Weil   Composer
Fletcher Henderson   Composer
Bennie Benjamin   Composer
Galt MacDermot   Composer
James Rado   Composer
Eric Blau   Composer
Mike Moran   Engineer
Lee Diamond   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Douglas Cross   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Melanie Safka   Composer
Jessie Mae Robinson   Composer
Rudy Stevenson   Composer
Randy Newman   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Adaptation
Gino Paoli   Composer
Mickey Crofford   Engineer
Abbey Lincoln   Composer