Discography and Biography of Nina Simone. Listen to all their hits.
Nina Simone Songs

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Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933-April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy". She enjoyed her greatest chart success in the UK with four top-ten pop hits - "Do What You Gotta Do" (1968), "Ain't Got No - I Got Life" (1968), "To Love Somebody" (1969), and "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (1987). Her musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

Below is a list of Nina Simone songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: RCA 47 9602
chart position: UK #2, RandB #43, US #83
written by: Jimmy Webb
album: Nuff Said!
Nina Simone Do What You Gotta Do
1968 RCA
2 record label: Bethlehem 11021
chart position: RandB #2, US #18
written by: George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward
comments: [soul jazz]
Nina Simone I Loves You, Porgy
1959 Bethlehem
3 record label: Colpix 175
chart position: RandB #11, US #93
weeksinr&bchart: 6
written by: Richard M. Jones
Nina Simone Trouble in Mind
1961 Colpix
4 record label: RCA Victor 1743(UK)
chart position: US #94, UK #2
written by: James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot
album: Nuff Said!
Nina Simone Ain't Got No - I Got Life
1968 RCA Victor
5 record label: RCA Victor 9447
chart position: UK #5
written by: Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
album: To Love Somebody
Nina Simone To Love Somebody
1969 RCA Victor
6 record label: Charly 112 (UK)
chart position: UK #5
written by: Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn
Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares for Me
1987 Charly
7 record label: RCA 74 0269
chart position: RandB #8, US #76
written by: Nina Simone and Master Wel
album: Black Gold
Nina Simone To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1969 RCA
8 record label: Mercury 403
chart position: UK #40
written by: Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
album: I Put a Spell on You
comments: [jazz soul] re release from 1965
Nina Simone Feeling Good
1994 Mercury
9 record label: Verve 012831
chart position: US dance #10
written by: traditional and Nina Simone
comments: [dance, house]
Nina Simone Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)
2003 Verve
10 record label: Philips 40286
chart position: US #120, UK #49
written by: Screamin' Jay Hawkins
album: I Put a Spell on You
Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You
1965 Philips
11 record label: Colpix 158
chart position: RandB #23, US #93
written by: Jimmy Cox
Nina Simone Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
1960 Colpix
12 record label: RCA 41775 (UK)
chart position: UK #96
written by: Jerry Jeff Walker
Nina Simone Mr Bojangles
1988 RCA
13 record label: RCA 9532
chart position: Cashbox RandB #35
written by: Billy Taylor
album: 'Nuff Said!
Nina Simone Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)
1968 RCA
14 record label: Verve (UK)
chart position: UK #109
written by: George Bass and Nina Simone
Nina Simone See-Line Woman (Masters At Work remix)
2002 Verve
15 record label: Colpix 608
chart position: US #113
written by: Henry Troy and Fletcher Henderson
Nina Simone Gin House Blues
1961 Colpix
16 record label: RCA Victor 459730
chart position: RandB #41
written by: Nina Simone and Master Wel (as Weldon Irvine)
Nina Simone Revolution (Part I)
1969 RCA Victor
17 record label: Philips 40232
chart position: US #131
written by: Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus and Gloria Caldwell
Nina Simone Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
1964 Philips
18 record label: RCA Victor 9120
chart position: Cashbox RandB #44
written by: Rudy Stevenson
album: Nina Simone Sings The Blues
Nina Simone Day And Night
1967 RCA Victor
19 record label: RCA Victor 9286
chart position: US #133
written by: Morris Bailey
Nina Simone (You'll) Go to Hell
1967 RCA Victor
20 record label: Philips 40404
chart position: Cashbox RandB #47
written by: N. Simone
album: Wild Is The Wind
comments: [soul jazz]
Nina Simone Four Women
1966 Philips
-- record label: RCA Victor 9286
written by: Waymon
album: Silk and Soul
Nina Simone It Be's That Way Sometime
1967 RCA Victor
-- record label: Bethlehem 11021
written by: Kahn, Donaldson
album: Little Girl Blue
comments: [jazz soul]
Nina Simone Love Me or Leave Me
1959 Bethlehem




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