A Single Woman

A Single Woman
Studio album by Nina Simone
Released	1993
Recorded	Oceanway Studios, Mad Hatter Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Vocal, soul, jazz, pop
Label	Elektra
Producer	André Fischer
Nina Simone chronology
Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987) A Single Woman (1993)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	[2]
Clash	(favorable)[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

A Single Woman is the last studio album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone.

Information about songs on this album

• "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" is dedicated to Errol Barrow, the former Prime Minister of Barbados with whom Nina had an affair.^[5]
• "Papa, Can You Hear Me?", a song better known in its Barbra Streisand version.

Track listing

1. "A Single Woman" (Rod McKuen) – 3:33
2. "Lonesome Cities" (Rod McKuen) – 3:08
3. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:59
4. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:39
5. "Love's Been Good to Me" (Rod McKuen) – 3:57
6. "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 4:22
7. "Il n'y A Pas d'Amour Heureux" (Louis Aragon, Georges Brassens) – 6:26
8. "Just Say I Love Him" (Jimmy Dale, Martin Kalmanoff, Jack Val, Sam Ward) – 4:29
9. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:42
10. "Marry Me" (Nina Simone) – 2:51

2008 Expanded Version bonus tracks

11. "The Long and Winding Road" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3.32

12. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2.30

13. "Baseball Boogie" (Nina Simone) – 0.55

14. "No Woman, No Cry" (Bob Marley) – 3.13

15. "Do I Move You" (Nina Simone) – 3.16

16. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (Bob Dylan) – 0.56

17. "Sign 'O' The Times" (Prince) – 5.37

Personnel

• Dr.Nina Simone - vocals & Piano
• John Chiodini, Al Schackman - guitar
• John Clayton, Buell Neidlinger, Christopher Hanulik, David Young, Jim Hughart, John Peña, Margaret Storer, Steve Edelman, Susan Ranney - bass
• Mike Melvoin - piano
• Jeff Hamilton, Paul Robinson, Andre Fischer - drums
• Bill Summers, Larry Bunker, Darryl Munyungo Jackson - percussion
• Gerald Albright - tenor saxophone
• Jack Sheldon - trumpet
• Frank Marocco - accordion
• Ann Stockton, Carol Robbins - harp
• Assa Drori, Connie Kupka, Gina Kronstadt, Gordon Marron, Henry Ferber, Irving Geller, Isabelle Daskoff, Israel Baker, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Kathleen Lenski, Mari Tsumura, Mark Cargill, Shari Zippert, Yvette Devereaux - violin
• Evan Wilson, Herschel Wise, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker, Rollice Dale - viola
• David Speltz, Frederick Seykora, Igor Horoshevsky, Marie Fera, Melissa Hasin, Suzie Katayama - cello
• Bob Tricarico, Earl Dumler, Gary Foster, Jack Nimitz, Jeff Clayton, Jon Kip, Valarie King - woodwind, reeds
• Brad Warnaar, Jeff DeRosa, Marilyn Johnson, Richard Todd - French horn
• Gerald Vinci - concertmaster, violin
• Jeremy Lubbock, John Clayton, Richard Evans, Nina Simone, Andre Fischer - arrangements

Technical

• Andre Fischer - Producer
• Al Schmitt - mixing, recording
• Michael Alago - executive producer
• Carol Friedman - photography

References

1. A Single Woman at AllMusic
2. Christgau, Robert. "CG: Nina Simone". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
3. Clash
4. Berger, Arion (November 11, 1993). "Nina Simone A Single Woman Album Review". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
5. Simone, Nina; Cleary, Stephen. I Put A Spell On You, 1992 (Da Capo Press), ISBN 978-0-306-81327-6