An Eclectic Collection

• Artist: Nina Simone
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• Release Date: February 18, 2003
• Type: Compilation (best of), Box set
• Genre: Vocal Music

Review

Essentially a Nina Simone Colpix box set, the six-CD Eclectic Collection contains all ten albums that the singer released for the label in the late '50s and early '60s. Most of the discs contain two albums each and are presented as follows: Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone at Town Hall, Folksy Nina/Nina With Strings, Forbidden Fruit/Nina Simone at Newport, Sings Duke Ellington/At Carnegie Hall, Nina Simone at the Village Gate, and Nina's Choice. Each of the CDs in the Eclectic Collection box has also been issued individually. ~ Wade Kergan, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Just in Time...	Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne	Nina Simone	(6:36)
He Was Too Good to Me	Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers	Nina Simone	(4:53)
House of the Rising Sun (Lyrics)	Traditional	Nina Simone	(4:38)
Bye Bye Blackbird	Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon	Nina Simone	(8:22)
Brown Baby	Oscar Brown, Jr.	Nina Simone	(5:53)
Zungo	Michael Olatunji	Nina Simone	(3:00)
If He Had Changed My Name		Nina Simone	(4:00)
Children Go Where I Send You	Traditional, Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(7:47)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Blue Prelude	Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop	Nina Simone	(3:22)
Children Go Where I Send You	Nina Simone, Traditional	Nina Simone	(2:52)
Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)		Nina Simone	(3:02)
Stompin' at the Savoy (Lyrics)	Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Andy Razaf	Nina Simone	(2:11)
It Might as Well Be Spring (Lyrics)	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Nina Simone	(3:56)
You've Been Gone Too Long		Nina Simone	(2:13)
That's Him over There (Lyrics)	Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence	Nina Simone	(2:31)
Chilly Winds Don't Blow	Hecky Krasnow, William Lovelock	Nina Simone	(2:43)
Theme from "Middle of the Night"	George Bassman	Nina Simone	(2:30)
Can't Get Out of This Mood (Lyrics)	Jimmy McHugh, Frank Loesser	Nina Simone	(2:33)
Willow Weep for Me	Ann Ronell	Nina Simone	(3:14)
Solitaire (Lyrics)	King Guion, Renee Borck, Carl Nutter	Nina Simone	(3:28)
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Lyrics)	Traditional	Nina Simone	(3:32)
Exactly Like You (Lyrics)	Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields	Nina Simone	(3:14)
The Other Woman	Jessie Mae Robinson, Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(3:01)
Under the Lowest	Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(5:32)
I Don't Want Him (Anymore)	David Enloe	Nina Simone	(5:49)
Summertime [Instrumental]	DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin	Nina Simone	(2:54)
Summertime [Vocal Version]	George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward	Nina Simone	(2:43)
Cottom Eyed Joe	Traditional	Nina Simone	(2:53)
Return Home	Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(5:28)
Wild Is the Wind (Lyrics)	Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin	Nina Simone	(3:29)
Fine and Mellow	Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.	Nina Simone	(3:31)

CD 3

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Rags and Old Iron	Oscar Brown, Jr., Manny Curtis	Nina Simone	(4:08)
No Good Man (Lyrics)	Irene Higginbotham, Sammy Gallop, Dan Fisher	Nina Simone	(3:39)
Gin House Blues (Lyrics)	Fletcher Henderson, Henry Troy	Nina Simone	(3:06)
I'll Look Around (Lyrics)	Douglass Cross, George Cory	Nina Simone	(5:08)
I Love to Love		Nina Simone	(3:27)
Work Song (Lyrics)	Oscar Brown, Jr., Nat Adderley	Nina Simone	(2:36)
Where Can I Go Without You?	Peggy Lee, Victor Young	Nina Simone	(2:51)
Just Say I Love Him	Martin Kalmanoff, Jack Val, Sam Ward, Jimmy Dale	Nina Simone	(6:39)
Memphis in June	Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster	Nina Simone	(2:39)
Forbidden Fruit	Oscar Brown, Jr.	Nina Simone	(3:50)
Trouble in Mind (Lyrics)	Richard M. Jones	Nina Simone	(5:41)
Porgy	DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin	Nina Simone	(5:10)
Li'l Liza Jane	Traditional	Nina Simone	(4:31)
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Lyrics)	Cole Porter	Nina Simone	(5:24)
Flo Me La	Traditional	Nina Simone	(7:12)
Nina's Blues	Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(6:10)
In the Evening by the Moonlight	Traditional	Nina Simone	(6:09)

CD 4

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Silver City Bound	Leadbelly, Alan Lomax	Nina Simone	(5:10)
When I Was a Young Girl	Sebastian Mure	Nina Simone	(5:42)
Erets Zavat Chalav	Eliahu Gamliel	Nina Simone	(4:25)
Lass of the Low Country	Traditional	Nina Simone	(6:08)
The Young Knight	Joseph Hathaway, C. Kingsly	Nina Simone	(5:28)
Twelfth of Never	Paul Francis Webster, Jerry Livingston	Nina Simone	(3:27)
Vanetihu	Gil Aldema	Nina Simone	(2:22)
You Can Sing a Rainbow	Arthur Hamilton	Nina Simone	(3:05)
Hush Little Baby	Pete Seeger	Nina Simone	(4:08)
I Loves You, Porgy	DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin	Nina Simone	(4:03)
Blackbird	Nina Simone, Herbert E Sacker	Nina Simone	(2:04)
Falling in Love Again	Sammy Lerner, Frederick Hollander	Nina Simone	(2:35)
Baubles, Bangels and Beads	George Forrest, Robert C. Wright	Nina Simone	(2:05)
Spring Is Here (Lyrics)	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Nina Simone	(2:38)
That's All	Bob Haymes, Merle Travis	Nina Simone	(2:23)
Chain Gang (The Work Song)	Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown, Jr.	Nina Simone	(2:42)
The Man With a Horn (Lyrics)	Bonnie Lake, Jack Jenney, Eddie DeLange	Nina Simone	(3:14)
Porgy, I Is Your Woman (Bess, You Is My Woman)	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward	Nina Simone	(3:20)
Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)	Wesley Wilson	Nina Simone	(2:04)

CD 5

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Trouble in Mind (Lyrics)	Richard M. Jones	Nina Simone	(5:41)
Memphis in June	Paul Francis Webster, Hoagy Carmichael	Nina Simone	(2:39)
Cottom Eyed Joe	Traditional	Nina Simone	(2:53)
Work Song (Lyrics)	Oscar Brown, Jr., Nat Adderley	Nina Simone	(2:36)
Forbidden Fruit	Oscar Brown, Jr.	Nina Simone	(3:50)
Li'l Liza Jane	Traditional	Nina Simone	(4:32)
Rags and Old Iron	Oscar Brown, Jr., Manny Curtis	Nina Simone	(4:08)
You Can Have Him (Lyrics)	Irving Berlin	Nina Simone	(6:00)
Just Say I Love Him	Martin Kalmanoff, Sam Ward, Jack Val, Jimmy Dale	Nina Simone	(6:36)

CD 6

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (Lyrics)	Duke Ellington, Bob Russell	Nina Simone	(2:50)
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)	Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster	Nina Simone	(4:06)
Hey, Buddy Bolden (Lyrics)	Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn	Nina Simone	(2:28)
Merry Mending	Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(2:35)
Something to Live For (Lyrics)	Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(2:55)
You Better Know It	Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(2:24)
I Like the Sunrise	Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(3:01)
Solitude (Lyrics)	Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(3:45)
The Gal from Joe's	Irving Mills, Duke Ellington	Nina Simone	(2:08)
Satin Doll	Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn	Nina Simone	(3:37)
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	Nina Simone	(2:33)
Black Swan [The Medium]	Gian Carlo Menotti	Nina Simone	(6:04)
Theme from "Samson and Delilah"	Victor Young	Nina Simone	(5:49)
If You Knew (Lyrics)	Nina Simone	Nina Simone	(3:28)
Theme from "Sayonara"	Irving Berlin	Nina Simone	(3:17)
The Twelfth of Never	Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster	Nina Simone	(3:27)
Will I Find My Love Today	Sean Fogarty, Sidney Shaw	Nina Simone	(6:44)
The Other Woman/Cotton Eyed Joe	Nina Simone, Traditional, Jessie Mae Robinson	Nina Simone	(7:21)

Credits

Nina Simone (Arranger), Jack Lewis (Producer), David Nathan (Liner Notes), Richard Alderson (Engineer)