My Baby Just Cares for Me

by Nina Simone

Overview

This budget-priced compilation issued via Verve's Jazz Club imprint spotlights Nina Simone's mid-'60s stint with the Philips label, the creative tipping point of the singer's storied career. Expanding the grammar of jazz by introducing elements of folk, soul, and pop, at Philips Simone redefined both her music and her place in music, making forever obsolete the stereotypes that long straitjacketed the role of women in American popular art. For the most part, My Baby Just Cares for Me eschews Simone's most fiery political statements in favor of more intimate and idiosyncratic work -- listeners seeking a truly comprehensive portrait are recommended the excellent Four Women: The Complete Nina Simone Philips Recordings, but this single-disc overview hits many of the high points, including "Old Jim Crow," "Work Song," and "Feeling Good." ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	08/20/2008
Label:	Gambit
UPC:	8436028692347
Rank:	257924

Tracks

1. Mood Indigo
2. Don't Smoke in Bed
3. He Needs Me
4. Little Girl Blue
5. Love Me or Leave Me
6. My Baby Just Cares for Me
7. Good Bait
8. Plain Gold Ring
9. You'll Never Walk Alone
10. I Loves You Porgy
11. Central Park Blues
12. He's Got the World in His Hands
13. For All We Know
14. African Mailman
15. My Baby Just Cares for Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist
Hal Mooney   Primary Artist,Conductor
Horace Ott   Conductor

Technical Credits

Gus Kahn   Composer
Willard Robison   Composer
Anthony Newley   Composer
Bobby Scott   Composer
Barney Bigard   Composer
Charles Aznavour   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Jimmie Cox   Composer
Pure   Composer
Oscar Brown, Jr.   Composer
Arthur Hamilton   Composer
Gloria Caldwell   Composer
Marcel Stellman   Composer
Richard Rodges   Composer
Ron Vander Groef   Composer
Jackie Alper   Composer
R. Robinson   Composer
Yves Stephane   Composer
Eunice Waymon   Composer
Olivier Ducroq   Design
Earl Shulman   Composer
George Stone   Composer
T. B. Harms   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Sol Marcus   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
J. Fred Coots   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Chuck Berry   Composer
Count Basie   Composer
E. Burroughs   Composer
Earl Shuman   Composer
Bennie Benjamin   Composer
Galt MacDermot   Composer
James Rado   Composer
Walter Donaldson   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Sam M. Lewis   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Leon Carr   Composer
Richard Ahlert   Composer
Richard M. Jones   Composer
Rudy Stevenson   Composer
Nat Adderley   Composer
Nina Simone   Composer
Gerome Ragni   Composer
Tadd Dameron   Composer