''Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall'' is a 1963 album by jazz singer/pianist/songwriter

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Track listing

# "Black Swan" (

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, Nina Simone/Traditional) Complete 2-CD Set: This edition combines the original ''Carnegie Hall'' album (disc 1) with another album recorded at the same concert, '' Folksy Nina'', plus bonus tracks. Disc One: # "Black Swan" (

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) # "When I Was a Young Girl" (Sebastian "Billy" Mure) # "Eratz Zavat Chalav U'dvash" (Eliahu Gamliel) # "Lass of the Low Country" (Traditional; arranged by Nina Simone) # "The Young Knight" (Charles Kingsley, Joseph Hathaway) # "Vaynikehu" (also known as "Israeli Song In 5/4 Time") (Gil Aldema) # "

Mighty Lak' a Rose "Mighty Lak' a Rose" is a 1901 song with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton and music by Ethelbert Nevin. The lyrics are written in an approximation of an African American accent as a "dialect song", and the title thus means "mighty like a rose". It i ...

" (Ethelbert Nevin, Frank Stanton) # "Hush Little Baby" (Traditional) # "Little Liza Jane" (Traditional)

# "Will I Find a Resting Place?" (Traditional)

# "Blackbird" (Herbert Sacker, Nina Simone)

Personnel

*Nina Simone - vocals, piano * Alvin Schackman, Phil Orlando - guitar *

Lisle Atkinson Lisle Arthur Atkinson (sometimes "Lysle") (born September 16, 1940, New York, NY; died March 25, 2019, New York, NY) was an American jazz double-bassist. Career Atkinson played violin from the age of four and switched to stand-up bass at 12 years ...

- bass *Montego Joe (Roger Sanders) - drums *The Malcolm Dodds Singers - backing vocals

References

{{Authority control 1963 live albums Nina Simone live albums Albums arranged by Nina Simone Colpix Records live albums Albums recorded at Carnegie Hall