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Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964)

Where the lyrics of Broadway-Blues-Ballads take you, and where it was really made.

This 1964 Nina Simone album was later reissued under different titles and covers.

Key places

Recorded at Carnegie Hall (1964)

Recording site Carnegie Hall — The recording is listed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, which is the recording relation given for this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Broadway-Blues-Ballads: 1964 album by singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone
• Released in 1964 on the Philips label
• Features Simone singing a few standards and folk songs
• Includes six compositions by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus
• Stereo catalog number PHS 600-148, mono PHM 200-148
• Recording session took place in New York City in 1964

Background

• Discogs lists a master release and a separate release for the same album
• Discogs notes the album has been reissued under different titles and covers
• Expanded and abridged versions are linked separately in the Discogs master entry
• Original LP sides are listed as separate tracklists in the Italian Wikipedia entry

Recording

• Recording place is given as Carnegie Hall in the candidate records
• Horace Ott is credited as arranger and conductor on tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 13
• Hal Mooney is credited as arranger and conductor on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12
• Simone plays piano and sings on all tracks and also arranges track 10
• Rudy Stevenson (flute), Lisle Atkinson (percussion) and Bobby Hamilton (drums) play on track 9
• The orchestra personnel is listed as unknown

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina; the sixth of eight children.
• Began playing piano at age three or four and gave a classical debut recital at age 12.
• Failed to gain admission to the Curtis Institute of Music, which she attributed to racism.
• Played piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City and adopted the stage name "Nina Simone" in 1954, after which she began singing as well.

Career

• Debut album Little Girl Blue (1958) included "I Loves You, Porgy", her only Billboard top 20 single in the US.
• Recorded more than 40 albums up to 1974; her 1960s protest songs such as "Mississippi Goddam" tied her to the civil rights movement.
• Left the US in 1970 and settled in Europe, later living in Liberia, Barbados, the Netherlands, and France.
• Autobiography I Put a Spell on You was published in 1991; she continued performing until her death on April 21, 2003.
• Known as the "High Priestess of Soul"; Rolling Stone ranked her No. 21 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Members

• Solo artist; she was accompanied by percussionist Leopoldo Fleming and guitarist Al Schackman throughout most of her career.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in 1964 on the Philips label
• Stereo edition carries catalog number PHS 600-148, with mono PHM 200-148 also available
• Album features Simone singing a few standards and folk songs
• Six compositions on the album are by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus
• Simone sings and plays piano on all tracks
• Horace Ott and Hal Mooney split the arranging and conducting across the tracks
• On track 9, Rudy Stevenson plays flute, Lisle Atkinson plays percussion and Bobby Hamilton plays drums
• Discogs lists a label variation with no fine print at the bottom
• Discogs lists the album under a master release and a separate release entry

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · www.discogs.com

Trivia

• Discogs notes the album has been reissued under different titles and covers.
• The first side of the original LP runs 17:29 in total.
• The second side of the original LP runs 15:37 in total.
• The album contains six compositions by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus.

Sources: www.discogs.com · it.wikipedia.org

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