The Great Show Live in Paris

Live in Europe

Live album by Nina Simone

Released

July 3, 1972

Recorded

June 18, 1968

Venue

The Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland

Genre

Jazz, vocal, funk, soul, piano blues

Label

Trip, Dakota, Accord, Phoenix, Disques Festival

Nina Simone chronology

Emergency Ward
(1972)

Live in Europe
(1972)

It Is Finished
(1974)

Live in Europe (released as The Great Show of Nina Simone: Live in Paris in France [1975]) is a live album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simone containing recording of Nina's performance at the second Montreux Jazz Festival 1968 (not in Paris).

Track listing

"Intro & Devil's Workshop" (Morris Bailey, Jr.)
"Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne)
"When I Was a Young Girl" (Traditional)
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus)
"Ne Me Quitte Pas" (Jacques Brel)
"To Love Somebody" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)
"Blacklash Blues" (listed on album simply as "Back Lash") (Langston Hughes, Nina Simone)
"House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional; credited to Nina Simone)
"See-Line Woman" (George Bass)
"Please Read Me" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)
"Ain't Got No/I Got Life" (extended version; listed on album simply as "Life") (Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni)
"Gin House Blues" (Fletcher Henderson, Henry Troy)

Personnel

Nina Simone - piano, vocals
Henry Young - guitar
Gene Taylor - bass
Sam Waymon - organ, vocals
Buck Clarke - drums

Sources

The Nina Simone Database

Nina Simone

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Live and studio albums

Remix albums

Remixed and Reimagined

Songs and singles

"Ain't Got No, I Got Life"
"Alone Again (Naturally)"
"Angel of the Morning"
"Ballad of Hollis Brown"
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
"Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)"
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
"Cherish"
"Cotton-Eyed Joe"
"Do Nothing till You Hear from Me"
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"
"Exactly Like You"
"Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)"
"Feeling Good"
"Fine and Mellow"
"For All We Know"
"Four Women"
"Go Limp"
"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
"Here Comes the Sun"
"The House of the Rising Sun"
"I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)"
"I Loves You, Porgy"
"I Put a Spell on You"
"I Shall Be Released"
"I Think It's Going to Rain Today"
"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free"
"If I Should Lose You"
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
"It Might as Well Be Spring"
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
"Just Like a Woman"
"Lilac Wine"
"Little Girl Blue"
"The Look of Love"
"Love Me or Leave Me"
"Mississippi Goddam"
"Mood Indigo"
"The More I See You"
"Mr. Bojangles"
"My Baby Just Cares for Me"
"My Sweet Lord"
"My Way"
"Ne me quitte pas"
"Nobody"
"Nobody's Fault but Mine"
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
"The Pusher"
"Rich Girl"
"(In My) Solitude"
"Satin Doll"
"Sea Lion Woman"
"Sign o' the Times"
"Since I Fell for You"
"Sinnerman"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
"Something Wonderful"
"Spring Is Here"
"Strange Fruit"
"Summertime"
"Suzanne"
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord"
"That's All"
"That's All I Want from You"
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
"To Be Young, Gifted and Black"
"To Love Somebody"
"Trouble in Mind"
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"
"Wild Is the Wind"
"Willow Weep for Me"
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"

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