''Nina Simone with Strings'' is an album by

Nina Simone Nina Simone ( ; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and po ...

. After her contract with

Colpix Records Colpix Records was the first recording company for Columbia Pictures–Screen Gems. Colpix got its name from combining Columbia (Col) and Pictures (Pix). CBS, which owned Columbia Records, then sued Columbia Pictures for trademark infringement o ...

had expired, the label took unissued recordings by Simone and sweetened them with a string ensemble. The album was released after the singer had left the label. In the UK, the album's version of " I Loves You Porgy" was used in television commercials in 1997 by the mobile telephone operator Orange.

Track listing

# " I Loves You Porgy" (

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

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 ...

) - 4:00 # "Blackbird" (Nina Simone) - 2:06 # " Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" (

Friedrich Hollaender Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. Life and career He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaend ...

, Sammy Lerner) - 2:38 # " Baubles Bangles and Beads" ( Robert Wright, George Forrest) - 2:04 # "

Spring Is Here "Spring is Here" is a 1938 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical '' I Married an Angel'' (1938), where it was introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal. Rodgers and Hart had previously written ...

" ( Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:37 # "That's All" ( Bob Haymes, Alan Brandt) - 2:24 # " Chain Gang (The Work Song)" (

Nat Adderley Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It ...

) - 2:40 # "The Man with a Horn" ( Eddie DeLange, Jack Jenney, Bonnie Lake) - 3:17 # "Porgy I Is Your Woman Now (Bess, You is My Woman)" (George and Ira Gershwin) - 3:22 # " Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" (

Bessie Smith Bessie Smith (April 15, 1892 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was t ...

) - 2:05

References

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