Do What You Gotta Do (1968 version)
~ Recording by Nina Simone
Annotation
studio recording, with added applause from the Westbury Music Fair concert mixed in, see other two tracks
In the Morning and
Ain’t Got No / I Got Life
Annotation last modified on 2023-09-08 04:48 UTC.
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| Official | |||||||||
| 1.11 | Do What You Gotta Do | 2:55 | Nina Simone | ’Nuff Said! (Rockaway pressing) | Nina Simone | Album + Live |
| RCA Victor | LSP-4065 |
| 3.27 | Do What You Gotta Do | 3:02 | Nina Simone | Be My Baby 2: More Music From the Girls of the Sixties | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | 88765402672 |
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Ray Hall (engineer) (on 1968-06-24) |
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| artist & repertoire support: | Tom Berman |
| producer: | Joe René |
| drums (drum set) and timpani: | Bernard “Pretty” Purdie |
| electric bass guitar: | Jerry Jemmott (on 1968-06-24) |
| guitar: | Eric Gale (on 1968-06-24) Carl Lynch (on 1968-06-24) Henry Young (Chinese-Ukrainian guitarist from Vancouver, B.C.; toured with Nina Simone) (on 1968-06-24) |
| organ: | Ernest Hayes (American pianist, organist and arranger) (on 1968-06-24) |
| percussion, tambourine and vibraphone: | Specs Powell (on 1968-06-24) |
| piano: | Paul Griffin (American pianist, session musician) (on 1968-06-24) Nina Simone (on 1968-06-24) |
| trombone: | Garnett Brown (on 1968-06-24) |
| trumpet: | Wilbur "Dud" Bascomb (Sr., jazz trumpeter) (on 1968-06-24) Harold Johnson (US jazz trumpeter aka "Money") (on 1968-06-24) Joe Shepley (on 1968-06-24) |
| lead vocals: | Nina Simone (on 1968-06-24) |
| conductor: | Horace Ott (on 1968-06-24) |
| arranger: | Horace Ott |
| produced for: | Stroud Productions & Enterprises Inc. (Nina Simone's husband) |
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| recorded at: | RCA Studio B (New York) in New York, New York, United States (on 1968-06-24) |
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| sampled by: | Famous (June 2016 mix, explicit) by Kanye West (Ye, formerly Kanye West) |
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| edit of: | Do What You Gotta Do (1968 version, full length) |
| recording of: | Do What You Gotta Do (on 1968-06-24: cover) |
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Related works
Do What You Gotta Do
| lyricist and composer: | Hazel O’Connor Jimmy Webb (US songwriter, composer, producer, pianist & singer) |
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| publisher: | EMI Songs Ltd. Jonathan Three Music Co. Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020) Sosahamu Music Inc. (publisher; do NOT use as release label) |
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