Nina Simone A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings 2LP 1
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Nina Simone A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings 2LP

Nina Simone

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Coming November 7, 2025 pre-order your copy today!

The Definitive Version of the Iconic Artist's Final Studio Album on Double LP!
Newly Remastered with 11 Bonus Tracks (4 Previously Unreleased)!

Nina Simone burst into the world with 1959's Little Girl Blue, and music would never be the same. For over five decades, Nina entertained, enthralled, and educated listeners across her extraordinary recording and performance career.

After a triumphant concert at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1992, Nina was approached by Elektra A&R executive Michael Alago (whose previous work at the label included Tracy Chapman and Metallica). When asked if Nina was ready to record again, she replied, "Get me the money… then we can talk!" Modeled around two of Simone's favorites, Frank Sinatra's A Man Alone (The Words and Music of Rod McKuen) and Billie Holidays' Lady in Satin—with the common element that both were recorded with full orchestral accompaniment, the sessions began.

Backed by a 50-piece orchestra, Simone recorded the material that would comprise A Single Woman with producer Andre Fischer (Natalie Cole's then-husband and former drummer for the band Rufus.) The ten tracks chosen from the sessions were revelatory, weaving songs about love in the style only Nina Simone could conceive and deliver. Simone recorded more material during the sessions, including covers of Bob Dylan, Prince, The Beatles, and Bob Marley, pointing to a potential follow up, but—sadly, A Single Woman would be her final studio album before her passing in 2003.

A Single Woman was reissued in 2006, adding seven of those performances left behind. Now, four more previously unissued recordings from those sessions have been added to create A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings—21 tracks on double LP. Newly remastered, this collection also contains new liner notes from the British Ambassador of Soul, David Nathan, outlining both the recording of the album, but also recounting his nearly three-decade relationship with Dr. Simone—beginning when he formed the UK Nina Simone Appreciation Society in 1965.

Experience this icon's final studio recordings in the most comprehensive way with A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Rcordings.

Features

  • Double LP
  • Newly Remastered
  • 11 Bonus Tracks (4 Previously Unissued)
  • Liner Notes from David Nathan

Musicians

Nina Simone piano, vocals
Buell Neidlinger, Christopher Hanulik, David Young, Jim Hughart, John Pena, Margaret Storer, Steve Edelman, Susan Ranney bass
Robert Tricarico, Earle Dumler, Gary Foster, Jack Nimitz, Jeff Clayton, Jon Kip, Valarie King brass, woodwind, reeds
David Spletz bass, cello
Frederick Seykora, Igor Horoshevsky, Mari Fera, Melissa Hasin, Suzie Katayama cello
Brad Warnaar, Jeffrey DeRose, Marilyn Johnson, Richard Todd French horn
Ann Stockton, Carol Robbins harp
William Summers, Darryl Jackson, Larry Bunker percussion
Evan Wilson, Herschel Wise, James Ross, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker, Rollice Dale viola
Assa Drori, Connie Kupka, Gina Kronstadt, Gordon Marron, Henry Ferber, Irving Geller, Isabelle Daskoff, Israel Baker, Jay Rosen, Jim Ross, Joel Derouin, Kathleen Lenski, Mari Tsumura, Mark Cargill, Shari Zippert, Yvette Devereaux, Gerald Vinci violin

Selections

Side A:

  1. A Single Woman
  2. Lonesome Cities
  3. If I Should Lose You
  4. The Folks Who Live on the Hill
  5. Love's Been Good to Me

Side B:

  1. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
  2. Il N'y a Pas D'Amour Heureux
  3. Just Say I Love Him
  4. The More I See You
  5. Marry Me

Side C:

  1. The Long and Winding Road (Outtake)
  2. The Times They Are A-Changin' (Outtake)
  3. Sign 'O' the Times (Outtake)
  4. Baseball Boogie (Outtake)
  5. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Outtake)
  6. Do I Move You? (Outtake)

Side D:

  1. The Times They Are A-Changin' (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]
  2. No Woman, No Cry (Outtake)
  3. Do I Move You? (Take 1) [Bonus Track]
  4. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]
  5. Baseball Boogie (Instrumental) [Bonus Track]

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