Nina Simone – Let it All Out: Selected Singles 1961-1978 – 2 LP import

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Artist: Nina Simone | Label: Ace |Format: 2xLP |Genre: Jazz / Soul | Condition: Mint | Jacket:Sealed

Nina Simone
Let it All Out: Selected Singles 1961-1978
Ace XXQP2163 – 2 LP import

Icon is an overused word when it comes to describing singers and musicians, but when it comes to Nina Simone there are few artists that the word describes more accurately. The High Priestess Of Soul is surely one of the most iconic singers of the 20th century, and one whose fame and acclaim stretches far beyond conventional black American music circles.
Nina Simone has featured on Ace and Kent CDs before but this is the first time shes had one all to herself. Let It All Out is the first and only Nina Simone collection to draw repertoire from every label she recorded for between the late 1950s to the late 1970s.
Not a traditional Best Of or Greatest Hits package (although the performances included here ARE among her very best, and do include most of her Greatest Hits!) it is a singles collection that presents Nina Simones soul and R&B-slanted 45s in chronological order. Invariably they are the definitive versions of the songs, whether she recorded the original versions or not.
As well as almost all of her American pop and R&B chart hits from 1960 onwards, Let It All Out also contains all of Simones UK chart hits from the same period several of which were more successful here than they were back home, including both versions of her biggest British hit Aint Got No-I Got Life, a UK #2 that did not chart at all in the US as was the case with the belated UK Top 5 hit My Baby Just Cares For Me which also made no chart impression on its home turf
Carefully curated and concisely annotated, Let It All Out lets the listener in to two dozen of Nina Simones most celebrated singles. There have been many compilations of her works since she passed away 20+ years ago, but none that gets to the heart and soul of her catalogue in quite so direct a manner as this one does.

Track Listings
Work Song
Gin House Blues
Come On Back, Jack
My Baby Just Cares For Me
I Put A Spell On You
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Either Way I Lose
Break Down And Let It All Out
Don’t You Pay Them No Mind
Do I Move You
It Be’s That Way Sometime
To Love Somebody
Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead) (Pts 1 & 2)
Do What You Gotta Do
Ain’t Got No;I Got Life (US single version)
Real Real
Suzanne
Revolution (Pt 1)
To Be Young, Gifted And Black
Save Me
Whatever I Am (You Made Me)
Ooh Child
Baltimore
Ain’t Go No; I Got Life (UK single version)

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