Let It All Out Explained

Let It All Out
Type:Album
Artist:Nina Simone
Cover:Ninasimoneletitallout.jpg
Released:February 1966
Recorded:March 1964 – October 1965
Length:37:03
Label:Philips
Producer:Hal Mooney
Prev Title:Pastel Blues
Prev Year:1965
Next Title:Wild Is the Wind
Next Year:1966

Let It All Out is an album by Nina Simone, released by Philips Records in February 1966.[1] [2]

The song "Chauffeur" is an adaptation of Memphis Minnie's "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" (1941), which Simone first heard Big Mama Thornton sing. Thornton released her version as "Me and My Chauffeur" on the B-side of her "Before Day" single on James Moore's Sharp label in 1964.[3] Simone's version is credited to Andy Stroud, her husband and manager at the time, who adapted it and "Nearer Blessed Lord" for her.[4]

"Images", sung a cappella by Simone, is based on a poem by Waring Cuney.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Mood Indigo" (Irving Mills, Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington)
  2. "The Other Woman" (Jessie Mae Robinson)
  3. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn)
  4. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
  5. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  6. "Chauffeur" (Andy Stroud)
  7. "For Myself" (Van McCoy)
  8. "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "This Year's Kisses" (Irving Berlin)
  10. "Images" (Nina Simone, Waring Cuney)
  11. "Nearer Blessed Lord" (Stroud)

Source: AllMusic

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cohodas, Nadine . Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone . 2010 . Pantheon Books . 978-0-375-42401-4 . 184 . A haunting song called "Images" stood out on Nina's latest album, Let It All Out, which was released in February..
  2. Book: Light, Alan . Alan Light . What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography . 2016 . Crown Archetype . 978-1-101-90487-9 . Discography . https://books.google.com/books?id=sVsDBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Let+It+All+Out%22+nina+simone&pg=PT260 . Google Books.
  3. 1999 . The future looks bright / the Jasman Records story . Real Blues . 19 . 46–47 . 30 December 2022.
  4. Web site: Let It All Out [liner notes] ]. Charles . Champlin . Charles Champlin . ninasimone.com . 30 December 2022.
  5. Web site: Nina Simone . AllMusic . 27 February 2012.

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