Broadway-Blues-Ballads

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Broadway-Blues-Ballads
Broadway-Blues-Ballads cover
Studio album by Nina Simone
Released 1964
Recorded New York, 1964
Genre Vocal
Soul
Jazz
Folk
Blues
Ballads
Label Philips Records
Professional reviews
Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone in Concert
(1964)		 Broadway-Blues-Ballads
(1964)		 I Put a Spell on You
(1965)

Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003). It was her second album for Philips. In contrast to her first Philips album, the live In Concert, which was politically laden with civil rights motifs, this studio album is more playful. It is not regarded as one of Simone's best efforts, though it contains songs that became standards in her repertoire.

[edit] Information about songs on this album

  • "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" was written by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus and is one of Simone's most well known songs. The cover version by The Animals is even better known. It was recently used in a Christian Dior commercial for his perfume J'Adore, starring Charlize Theron.
  • "How Can I?", "I Am Blessed", "Of This I'm Sure", "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" were also written by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus.
  • "See Line Woman", a song that became a standard in Simone's live repertoire. It talks about the life of a high paid upper-class prostitute. The song is often mispronounced as "Sealion Woman", though a reference to sealions was never intended. It has been covered in a different adaptation by Feist.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
  2. "Night Song"
  3. "The Laziest Gal in Town"
  4. "Something Wonderful"
  5. "Don't Take All Night"
  6. "Nobody"
  7. "I Am Blessed"
  8. "Of This I'm Sure"
  9. "See Line Woman"
  10. "Our Love (Will See Us Through)"
  11. "How Can I?"
  12. "The Last Rose of Summer"
  • on some CD releases the single "Monster" is added as a bonus track.