McRae, the third song stylist on the LP, was featured on Burton Lane and E.Y. She's heard on songs by the Gershwins ('Someone to Watch Over Me'), Cole Porter ('I Concentrate on You,' 'From This Moment On'), and Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange ('All This and Heaven, Too'). Fred Coots standard 'For All We Know.'Ĭhris Connor had spent 1953-1955 on Bethlehem before being snapped up by Atlantic Records where she remained for roughly seven years. Her repertoire is rounded out with three outtakes from Little Girl Blue: the evocative, improvised piano-led instrumental 'African Mailman' plus the spiritual 'He's Got the Whole World in His Hands' and the Sam Lewis/J. Simone's selections include the Gershwins and DuBose Heyward's 'I Loves You, Porgy,' a top 20 Pop/top 5 R&B entry for the artist as released off Little Girl Blue.

The 12-song sequence encompasses four cuts from each artist.

Nina Simone and Her Friends was the result. (Simone departed for the greener pastures of Colpix Records.) But Bethlehem was eager to cash in on the new star. So had the two other artists who comprise her 'friends' - jazz vocalists Chris Connor and Carmen McRae. By the time of the release of Nina Simone and Her Friends, Simone had already left the label. Simone's discography for Bethlehem is famously small - just the Little Girl Blue album and the three additional songs on this collection. All formats will arrive in stores on December 3. The LP will be a Record Store Day Essentials emerald green 180-gram pressing available at record stores everywhere. Like the earlier title, this newly remastered edition will be available on CD, LP, and in both high-definition and standard digital/streaming versions. BMG is following up its reissue earlier this year of Nina Simone's 1959 Bethlehem Records debut Little Girl Blue with the label's follow-up, Nina Simone and Her Friends.

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