Broadway-Blues-Ballads

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{{Infobox album

| name = Broadway-Blues-Ballads

| type = Album

| artist = Nina Simone

| cover = Broadwaybluesballads.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 1964

| recorded = New York City, 1964

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Vocal, soul, jazz, folk, blues

| length =37:22

| label = Philips

| producer = Hal Mooney

| prev_title = Nina Simone in Concert

| prev_year = 1964

| next_title = I Put a Spell on You

| next_year = 1965

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r188960|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=470}}

|rev3 = Pitchfork Media

|rev3Score = 8.0/10{{cite web |first=Carvell |last=Wallace |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22159-the-philips-years/|title=Nina Simone : Broadway-Blues-Ballads |publisher=Pitchfork Media |date=30 July 2016 |accessdate=30 July 2016}}

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Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by the singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone, released in 1964. The album features Simone singing a few standards and folk songs, as well as six compositions by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus.

Track listing

  1. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:46
  2. "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
  3. "The Laziest Gal in Town" (Cole Porter) - 2:19
  4. "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
  5. "Don't Take All Night" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
  6. "Nobody" (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
  7. "I Am Blessed" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
  8. "Of This I'm Sure" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
  9. "See-Line Woman" ([traditional] American folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
  10. "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
  11. "How Can I?" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
  12. "The Last Rose of Summer" (Thomas Moore, Richard Alfred Milliken, Nina Simone) - 3:08

Personnel

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