Colpix Records · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Nina Simone Sings Ellington
| Recorded | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Label | Colpix Records |
| Released | 1961 |
| Personnel | 1 credited player |
| Discogs | master 122258 |
The record
Duke's songbook filtered through torch song and gospel fervor, the Malcolm Dodds Singers adding churchy weight behind her piano. Restless, category-averse Simone, mid-Colpix, already reaching past the material at hand.
Session personnel
- Malcolm Dodds Singers — backing vocals
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
The earliest on file is the 1962 US Colpix mono, CP 425, with stereo SCP 425 alongside it the same year; both turn up as Monarch pressings, and one mono is logged only as a label variation. Overseas 1962 copies include Australia on Pye, PLP 1103, and a Japanese stereo, SMJ-7087. The 1966 UK reissue on Pye Golden Guinea, GGL.0385, is the common one. Recent 180 gram reissues are the cheap way in.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 40 pressings on file.
| 1962 | Colpix Records · CP 425 — Vinyl, LP, Mono earliest on file |
|---|---|
| 1962 | Colpix Records — MONO |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · SCP 425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1962 | Pye Records · PLP 1103 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · CP425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Monarch Pressing |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · CP425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Label variation |
| 1962 | Astor · PLP 1103 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · CP 425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · SCP425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · SMJ-7087 — Vinyl, LP, Album, White Label, Stereo |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · 43.011 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1962 | Colpix Records · SCP 425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch pressing |
| 1963 | Colpix Records · SCP 425 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1966 | Pye Golden Guinea Records · GGL.0385 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |