Nina at the Village Gate

Nina Simone at the Village Gate
Live album by Nina Simone
Released	1962
Recorded	Live at The Village Gate 1961
Genre	Vocal, jazz, blues, folk
Label	Colpix
Producer	Cal Lampey
Nina Simone chronology
Forbidden Fruit (1961) Nina Simone at the Village Gate (1962) Nina Simone Sings Ellington (1962)

Nina Simone at the Village Gate (1962) is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003). It was her third live album for Colpix recorded at The Village Gate. It is particularly notable for the amount of folk songs and African related songs on the album early in Simone's career. Richard Pryor had one of his first nights as a comedian, opening for her. Simone about Pryor's first night:

He shook like he had malaria, he was so nervous. I couldn't bear to watch him shiver, so I put my arms around him there in the dark and rocked him like a baby until he calmed down. The next night was the same, and the next, and I rocked him each time.^[1]

Information about songs on this album

• "House of the Rising Sun", recorded few months prior to the version by Bob Dylan. It later became a big hit for The Animals in 1964. It is said that they were inspired by the Nina Simone version (although there is a lot of discussion about that).
• "Just in Time" was used at the end of the movie Before Sunset (2004).

Track listing

1. "Just in Time"
2. "He Was Too Good to Me"
3. "House of the Rising Sun"
4. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (instrumental)
5. "Brown Baby"
6. "Zungo"
7. "If He Changed My Name"
8. "Children Go Where I Send You"

References

1. ^ Nina Simone & Stephen Cleary, I put a spell on you, pp. 70-71