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}}
}}
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
- "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:46
- "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
- "The Laziest Gal in Town" (Cole Porter) - 2:19
- "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
- "Don't Take All Night" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
- "Nobody" (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
- "I Am Blessed" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
- "Of This I'm Sure" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
- "See-Line Woman" ([traditional] American folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
- "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
- "How Can I?" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
- "The Last Rose of Summer" (Thomas Moore, Richard Alfred Milliken, Nina Simone) - 3:08
- on some CD releases the single "A Monster" is added as a bonus track. (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:47
Personnel
- Nina Simone – piano, vocals on all tracks, and arranger on track 10
- Rudy Stevenson – flute on track 9
- Lisle Atkinson – percussion on track 9
- Bobby Hamilton – drums on track 9
- Horace Ott – arranger and conductor on tracks 1,5,7,8,10,11,13
- Hal Mooney – arranger and conductor on tracks 2,3,4,6,12
- unknown orchestra