Broadway-Blues-Ballads

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

 * 1) "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus) - 2:46
 * 2) "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:06
 * 3) "The Laziest Gal in Town" (Cole Porter) - 2:19
 * 4) "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 2:46
 * 5) "Don't Take All Night" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:54
 * 6) "Nobody" (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) - 4:18
 * 7) "I Am Blessed" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:57
 * 8) "Of This I'm Sure" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:37
 * 9) "See-Line Woman" ([traditional] American folk, George Bass, Nina Simone) - 2:38
 * 10) "Our Love (Will See Us Through)" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 3:01
 * 11) "How Can I?" (Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus) - 2:05
 * 12) "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