Live at Ronnie Scott's (Nina Simone album)

Live at Ronnie Scott's
Live album by Nina Simone
Released	1987
Recorded	London, November 17, 1984, live at Ronnie Scott's
Genre	Vocal, soul, jazz, folk
Label	Hendring-Wadham
Producer	Eddie Singleton
Nina Simone chronology
Let It Be Me (1987) Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987) A Single Woman (1993)

Live at Ronnie Scott's is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003). It is a live recording of a concert she gave at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1984, a London venue where she performed a few times in her later life.

Information about songs on this album

• "Fodder In Her Wings" and "I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive", Nina first recorded these self-written songs on Fodder On My Wings (1982). Both are very personal to her, talking about Nina's estrangement from people and closing a bad chapter and beginning a new one.
• "Be My Husband", written by her ex-husband and ex-manager Andrew Stroud, first featured on Pastel Blues (1965). Later covered by Jeff Buckley as "Be Your Husband".
• "I Loves You Porgy", her first hit-single from her debut Little Girl Blue (1958).
• "Mississippi Goddam", Nina wrote this civil rights song after four black girls died during a church bombing, first featured on Nina Simone In Concert (1964).
• "Moon over Alabama", together with "Mississippi Goddam". Nina sings this song to show that the two songs have a similar melody. She, therefore, switches between them during the performance.
• "My Baby Just Cares For Me", Nina introduces this last song with:

  I think this is what you've all been waiting for...

  She often did that when performing it live in her later years. It is the song that brought her back into the limelight after it featured in a commercial in 1982, yet it wasn't a song she particularly liked or wished to be remembered by.^[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nina Simone; except where indicated

1. "God, God God" (Paramahansa Yogananda, Simone)
2. "If You Knew"
3. "Mr. Smith" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht)
4. "Fodder in Her Wings"
5. "Be My Husband" (Simone, Andrew Stroud)
6. "I Loves You Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)
7. "The Other Woman" (Simone, Jessie Mae Robinson)
8. "Mississippi Goddam"
9. "Moon Over Alabama" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht)
10. "For a While" (Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes)
11. "See Line Woman" (George Houston Bass)
12. "I Sing Just to Know That I'm Alive"
13. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson)

Personnel

• Nina Simone - vocals, piano
• Paul Robinson - drums

References

1. ↑ Simone, Nina; Cleary, Stephen. I Put A Spell On You, 1992 (Da Capo Press), ISBN 0-679-41068-6

Nina Simone
Studio albums	Little Girl Blue Nina Simone and Her Friends The Amazing Nina Simone Forbidden Fruit Nina Simone Sings Ellington Broadway-Blues-Ballads I Put a Spell on You Pastel Blues Nina Simone with Strings Wild Is the Wind High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone Sings the Blues Silk & Soul Nina Simone and Piano To Love Somebody Here Comes the Sun Baltimore Fodder on My Wings A Single Woman
Compilation albums	Nina's Choice The Soul of Nina Simone The Very Best of Nina Simone
Live albums	Nina Simone at Newport Nina at the Village Gate Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall Folksy Nina Nina Simone in Concert Black Gold Live at Ronnie Scott's The Great Show Live in Paris Emergency Ward!
Live and studio albums	Nina Simone at Town Hall Let It All Out 'Nuff Said! It Is Finished
Remix albums	Remixed and Reimagined
Related articles	I Put a Spell on You (book) What Happened, Miss Simone?
Songs and singles "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" "Alone Again (Naturally)" "Angel of the Morning" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" "Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)" "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" "Cherish" "Cotton-Eyed Joe" "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" "Exactly Like You" "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" "Feeling Good" "Fine and Mellow" "For All We Know" "Four Women" "Go Limp" "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" "Here Comes the Sun" "The House of the Rising Sun" "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" "I Loves You, Porgy" "I Put a Spell on You" "I Shall Be Released" "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" "If I Should Lose You" "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" "It Might as Well Be Spring" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" "Just Like a Woman" "Lilac Wine" "Little Girl Blue" "The Look of Love" "Love Me or Leave Me" "Mississippi Goddam" "Mood Indigo" "The More I See You" "Mr. Bojangles" "My Baby Just Cares for Me" "My Sweet Lord" "My Way" "Ne me quitte pas" "Nobody" "Nobody's Fault but Mine" "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" "The Pusher" "Rich Girl" "(In My) Solitude" "Satin Doll" "Sea Lion Woman" "Sign o' the Times" "Since I Fell for You" "Sinnerman" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Something Wonderful" "Spring Is Here" "Strange Fruit" "Summertime" "Suzanne" "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" "That's All" "That's All I Want from You" "The Times They Are a-Changin'" "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" "To Love Somebody" "Trouble in Mind" "Turn! Turn! Turn!" "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" "Wild Is the Wind" "Willow Weep for Me" "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
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