Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (studio recording, with added applause from the Westbury Music Fair concert crossfaded at beginning and end, additional overdubbed drums, and vocal double-tracked at the end)
~ Recording by Nina Simone
Annotation
not truly a live recording:
"Compared to the single, the album version (from the 1968 'Nuff Said!) has applause from the Westbury Music Fair concert crossfaded over the beginning and end, additional overdubbed drums, and towards the end of the song the vocal is double-tracked." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Nuff_Said!#Songs
Annotation last modified on 2023-02-27 09:00 UTC.
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| Official | |||||||||
| 1.8 | Ain’t Got No / I Got Life | 2:05 | Nina Simone | ’Nuff Said! (Rockaway pressing) | Nina Simone | Album + Live |
| RCA Victor | LSP-4065 |
| 1.8 | Ain’t Got No | 2:09 | 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: | Ed Begley (sound engineer in RCA Victor) (on 1968-05-13) |
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| producer: | Joe René |
| drums (drum set): | Buck Clarke (on 1968-05-13) |
| electric bass guitar: | Gene Taylor (US jazz bassist) (on 1968-05-13) |
| electric guitar: | Rudy Stevenson (on 1968-05-13) |
| organ: | Sam Waymon (on 1968-05-13) |
| piano and lead vocals: | Nina Simone (on 1968-05-13) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | BMG Ariola (company mostly named as distributor in Europe) (in 1968) BMG Music (in 1968) |
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| produced for: | Stroud Productions & Enterprises Inc. (Nina Simone's husband) |
| recorded at: | RCA Studio B (New York) in New York, New York, United States (on 1968-05-13) |
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| has remixes: | Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (Groovefinder instrumental) |
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| edit of: | Ain’t Got No / I Got Life (’Nuff Said’ version without overdubs and with studio banter at the end (“It’s groovy”)) |
| recording of: | Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (on 1968-05-13: cover) |
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Related works
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
| lyricist: | James Rado (US actor, playwright, director, writer & composer) Gerome Ragni |
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| composer: | Galt MacDermot (Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre) |
| publisher: | EMI U Catalog (publisher; do NOT use as release label) EMI United Partnership Ltd. |
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| medley of: | 1. Ain’t Got No (from “Hair”) 2. I Got Life (from “Hair”) |
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| later translated versions: | Hij die tevreden is |
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