Nina Simone at the Village Gate (1962) is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

 (1933-2003). It was her third live album for Colpix

Colpix Records

Colpix Records was the first recording company for Columbia Pictures–Screen Gems. Colpix got its name from combining Columbia and Pictures . It was founded by Jonie Taps and Harry Cohn in 1958, and was based in New York City. Paul Wexler headed the label. Stu Phillips was in charge of A&R...

 recorded at The Village Gate

The Village Gate

The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York.Art D'Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street. The large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at the time as...

. It is particularly notable for the amount of folk songs and African related songs on the album early in Simone's career. Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...

 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.

Information about songs on this album

• "House of the Rising Sun", recorded few months prior to the version by Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  . It later became a big hit for The Animals
  The Animals
  The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade, and later relocated to London...
  
   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
  Before Sunset
  Before Sunset is a 2004 American romantic drama film and the sequel to Before Sunrise . Like its predecessor, the film was directed by Richard Linklater. However, this time Linklater shares screenplay credit with both actors from the movies, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy...
  
  (2004).

Track listing

1. "Just in Time
   Just in Time (song)
   "Just in Time" is a popular song with the melody written by Jule Styne and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The song was published in 1956....
   
   "
2. "He Was Too Good to Me"
3. "House of the Rising Sun"
4. "Bye Bye Blackbird
   Bye Bye Blackbird
   "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" is a song published in 1926 by the American composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon. It is considered a popular standard and was first recorded by Gene Austin in 1926.- Song information :...
   
   " (instrumental)
5. "Brown Baby"
6. "Zungo"
7. "If He Changed My Name"
8. "Children Go Where I Send You"