Black Gold (Nina Simone album)

The album is especially notable because it features the civil rights anthem song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". The performance that night also included a calypso version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" (which Simone had recorded on To Love Somebody), but there was no room for it on the album.

With the release of the album also came an LP called Come Together with Nina Simone. It was a recorded interview about the album. The questions were provided in written form, so that radio DJs could ask the questions and play Simone's recorded answers, as if she were in the studio.^[2]^[3]

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair"	Traditional	5:58
2.	"Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Vocal by Emile Latimer)	Traditional	4:00
3.	"Ain't Got No, I Got Life"	Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni	5:28
4.	"Westwind"	Caiphus Semenya	9:30
5.	"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"	Sandy Denny	8:09
6.	"The Assignment Sequence"	Jan Hendin	6:57
7.	"To Be Young, Gifted and Black"	Weldon Irvine, Nina Simone	9:34

Personnel

Nina Simone – piano, vocals, arrangements
Emile Latimer – guitar, vocals on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair"
Tom Smith – guitar
Weldon Irvine – organ
Don Alias – drums, percussion
Jumma Santos – congas, percussion

Technical

Ed Begley - recording engineer
Jack Medkiff - cover design

Charts

Chart (1970)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	149^[4]
US Hot R&B LPs	21^[5]

References

^ Allmusic Review
^ David Brun Lambert: Nina Simone: het tragische lot van een uitzonderlijke zangeres (dutch translation from french biography, Sirene, 2006)
^ "Come Together With Nina Simone". YouTube. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
^ "Nina Simone - Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
^ "Nina Simone - Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 14, 2021.

Nina Simone

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

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"
"Chauffeur"
"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"
"Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter"
"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 a Woman"
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
"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"
"Satin Doll"
"Sea Lion Woman"
"Sign o' the Times"
"Since I Fell for You"
"Sinnerman"
"(In My) Solitude"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
"Something Wonderful"
"Spring Is Here"
"Strange Fruit"
"Summertime"
"Suzanne"
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord"
"Tell It Like It Is"
"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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