''Live at Ronnie Scott's'' is an album by American singer-songwriter

Nina Simone Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, ...

. It is a live recording of a concert she gave at

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959. History The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Sco ...

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 ''Fodder on My Wings'' is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It is part of her later works, and can be regarded alongside ''Baltimore'' (1978) as one of her better achievements of that period. It is however a rather obscure album ...

'' (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 ''Pastel Blues'' is a studio album by American singer Nina Simone, released in October 1965, by Philips Records. The album was recorded in 1964 and 1965 in New York City and peaked at number 139 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, as well as number ...

'' (1965). Later covered by

Jeff Buckley Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by ...

as "Be Your Husband". *"

I Loves You Porgy "I Loves You, Porgy" is a duet from the 1935 opera ''Porgy and Bess'' with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was performed in the opera's premiere in 1935 and on Broadway the same year by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan. They rec ...

", her first hit-single from her debut '' Little Girl Blue'' (1958). *"Mississippi Goddam", Nina wrote this

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of ...

song after four black girls died during a church bombing, first featured on ''

Nina Simone in Concert ''Nina Simone in Concert'' is an album by the jazz singer Nina Simone. It is her first album for the record label Philips, composed of three live recordings made at Carnegie Hall, New York City, in March and April 1964. Simone recorded ''Nina S ...

'' (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.Simone, Nina; Cleary, Stephen.

I Put A Spell On You "I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written and composed by Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, whose own recording of it was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also included in Rober ...

, 1992 (Da Capo Press),

Track listing

All tracks composed by Nina Simone; except where indicated #"God God God" (Paramahansa Yogananda, Simone) #"If You Knew" #"Mr. Smith" (

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

) # "Fodder in Her Wings" # "Be My Husband" (Simone, Andrew Stroud) # "

" (

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 2 ...

, DuBose Heyward) # "The Other Woman" (Simone, Jessie Mae Robinson) #"

Mississippi Goddam "Mississippi Goddam" is a song written and performed by American singer and pianist Nina Simone, who later announced the anthem to be her "first civil rights song". The song was released on her album '' Nina Simone in Concert'' in 1964, which wa ...

" #" Moon Over Alabama" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht) #"For a While" (

Bob Gaudio Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the pop/rock band the Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote and produced the vast majori ...

, Jake Holmes) #"See Line Woman" (George Houston Bass) #"I Sing Just to Know That I'm Alive" #" My Baby Just Cares for Me" (

Gus Kahn Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886October 8, 1941) was an American lyricist who contributed a number of songs to the Great American Songbook, including "Pretty Baby", "Ain't We Got Fun?", "Carolina in the Morning", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' By ...

Walter Donaldson Walter Donaldson (February 15, 1893 – July 15, 1947) was an American prolific popular songwriter and publishing company founder, composing many hit songs of the 1910s to 1940s, that have become standards and form part of the Great American Song ...

)

Personnel

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

References

{{Authority control 1987 live albums Nina Simone live albums Albums recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club