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Artist: Nina Simone, Chris Connor, Carmen McRae Title: Nina Simone And Her Friends Label:   Bethlehem Country: USA Catalogue: BCP-6041 Date: Feb 1960 Format: Mono LP (also Stereo LP) Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Nina Simone	He's Got The Whole World In His Hands	Traditional	Rate
A2	Chris Connor	A Cottage For Sale	Conley, Robison	Rate
A3	Carmen McRae	Old Devil Moon	Harburg, Lane	Rate
A4	Nina Simone	I Loves You Porgy	Gershwin, Heyward	Rate
A5	Chris Connor	Try A Little Tenderness	Campell, Connelly, Woods	Rate
A6	Carmen McRae	You Made Me Care	Darwin, Girard	Rate
B1	Nina Simone	For All We Know	Coots, Lewis	Rate
B2	Chris Connor	What Is There To Say	Duke, Harburg	Rate
B3	Carmen McRae	Too Much In Love To Care	Carmen McRae	Rate
B4	Nina Simone	African Mailman	Nina Simone	Rate
B5	Chris Connor	Goodbye	Gordon Jenkins	Rate
B6	Carmen McRae	The Last Time For Love	Carmen McRae	Rate

Notes

CB Feb 27, 1960

Title on labels: NINA SIMONE AND FRIENDS.
Sub-title on front sleeve: "An Intimate Variety of Vocal Charm".
Nina Simone's tracks recorded in New York City, 1957.

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Released in early 1960 (January/February).
Unauthorised release: Issued without the consent or knowledge of Nina Simone who at that point was under contract to Colpix Records (since April 1959).
Stereo issue: Bethlehem LP # BS-6041.

BB February 29, 1960, p. 38 (Reviews and Ratings of New Albums: Jazz, 3-star review).
BB April 4, 1960, p. 47 (Showcase of New and Outstanding LP's: Jazz).

Nina Simone herself wrote:
"My first album for Colpix was The Amazing Nina Simone, but before it even came out Bethlehem had released a rival, Nina Simone and Her Friends, which contained the few remaining songs that we had decided not to use on Little Girl Blue. I had no idea that Bethlehem had any intention to do such a thing until I saw it on display in a record store window in Greenwich Village, but there was nothing I could do about it" (Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary: I Put A Spell On You. The Autobiography of Nina Simone, New York 1992, p. 65).
However, for everything we know Bethlehem's pirate LP was not released before Simone's first Colpix LP (The Amazing Nina Simone) but only in early 1960.

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Comments and Reviews

ppint. 17th Nov 2019		re notes: this lp from bethlehem was not a "pirate lp": the tracks had been recorded for bethlehem, were owned outright by them, and were legitimately - albeit somewhat ill-manneredly - released on record by them. bethlehem (and their owners, and their successor companies) could and would, fully legally, issue, reissue, release mix-and-match "best of"s under a variety of titles, and licence - or even sell outright - any of the recordings they owned to other companies. no authorisation by nina simone was required for their release by bethlehem.

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