Episode 1
Nina Simone's daughter explores her mother's extraordinary life and career. First broadcast on Radio 2.
Nina Simone's daughter Simone explores an extraordinary life and career - sharing her personal thoughts and providing a glimpse of the real woman behind the distinctive voice.
This series features unreleased concert tracks and contributions from some of Nina's closest friends - including her high school friend Hannah Ferguson; her niece Joyce Stroud; her close friend Verta Mae Grosvenor; concert promoter Ron Delsener; her friend and Elektra Records A and R man Michael Alago, singer Patti Smith; and her drummer for 18 years - Paul Robinson.
In part one, we hear about Nina's musical beginnings as Eunice Waymon, a 5-year-old child prot茅g茅, learning classical piano with the help of people in her home town. She won a place at New York's famous Juilliard School but was turned down by the elite Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. This was an incredible blow to the young Eunice Waymon, who turned to teaching piano and playing in bars to make ends meet. At this point she took the stage name Nina Simone.
She moved to New York City and signed her first record deal [not reading the small print which would cost her dearly later in her career]. New York was the place to be and Nina became closely associated with the civil rights movement, connected with both the radical black playwright Lorraine Hansberry and Malcolm X. She wrote her first protest song, Mississippi Goddamn, in 1963 - an enraged reaction to the deaths of four children in the bombing of a Sunday school in Alabama.
She also met and married Andy Stroud, who became her manager [and Simone's father]. Throughout the 60s her output was prolific and she toured constantly in the US and Europe, always highlighting the civil rights message.
First broadcast on Radio 2.
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Nina Simone
Feeling Good
- FEELING GOOD THE VERY BEST OF NINA SIMONE.
- VERVE/POLYGRAM TV.
- 522-669-2.
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Nina Simone
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
- I Put a Spell on You.
- Verve.
- 600-502.
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Nina Simone
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
- CD SINGLE.
- CHARLY.
- CD S-1.
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Nina Simone
Take Me To The Water
- Gold.
- Universal.
- 980-8087.
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Nina Simone
Good Bait
- Essential Early Recordings.
- Proper Records.
- PRMCD-6099.
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Nina Simone
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
- FOR LOVERS.
- VERVE.
- B000-556602.
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Nina Simone
MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME
- THE VERY BEST OF.
- SONY BMG.
- 828768-05532.
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Nina Simone
I LOVES YOU PORGY
- FINEST HOUR.
- VERVE.
- 543-604-2.
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Nina Simone
Trouble In Mind
- Nina Simone At Newport, At The Village Gate ? And Elsewhere?.
- Westside.
- WESD-210.
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Nina Simone
WORK SONG
- THE BEST OF NINA SIMONE.
- EMI.
- CDP-7985842.
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Nina Simone
MISSISSIPPI GODDAM
- IN CONCERT - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU.
- MERCURY.
- 846-543-2.
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Nina Simone
Four Women
- The Best of Nina Simone.
- Crimson.
- GBCQV0398197.
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Nina Simone
African Mailman
- Nina Simone: The Complete 1955-1959.
- Chant du Monde.
- 2742047.48.
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Nina Simone
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
- A LITTLE BLUES IN YOUR SOUL.
- WARNER BROS.
- 9548-362232.
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Nina Simone
DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD
- NINA SIMONE GOLD.
- UNIVERSAL CLASSICS & JAZZ.
- 9808-087.
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Nina Simone
Young, Gifted and Black
- THE ESSENTIAL NINA SIMONE.
- TAMLA.
- 5420-1.
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Nina Simone
BACKLASH BLUES
- THE BLUES.
- NOVUS.
- ND-83 101.
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SIMONE
Music For Lovers
- Simone on Simone.
- Koch Records.
- KOC-CD-4494.
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Nina Simone
Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
- Nina Simone - The Greatest Hits.
- BMG.
- BMG-82876527622.
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Nina Simone
AIN'T GOT NO
- The Very Best of Nina Simone.
- RCA.
- 8287-6805532.
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Al 'Tootie' Heath, Jimmy Bond & Nina Simone
Central Park Blues
- My Baby Just Cares For Me.
- Charly.
- CDCharly-6.
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Nina Simone
DON'T SMOKE IN BED
- NINA SIMONE.
- CHARLY.
- CDGR-295.
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Nina Simone
See-Line Woman
- Broadway-Blues-Ballads.
- Verve.
- 600-602.
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Nina Simone
HERE COMES THE SUN
- Nina Somone Greatest hits.
- BMG UK Ltd.
- LC-00316.
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Nina Simone
Feeling Good
- FEELING GOOD THE VERY BEST OF NINA SIMONE.
- VERVE/POLYGRAM TV.
- 522-669-2.
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