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Black Gold
Black Gold
Live album by Nina Simone
Released	1970
Recorded	October 26, 1969
Venue	Philharmonic Hall, New York City
Genre	Jazz, pop, folk
Length	49:36
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Stroud Productions (Andrew Stroud)
Nina Simone chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	?^[1]

Black Gold is a live album by American jazz musician Nina Simone recorded in 1969 at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City. She got a 1971 nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, but lost to Aretha Franklin's cover of "Don't Play That Song".

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]

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.