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Forbidden Fruit is the third studio album by Nina Simone. It was her second studio album for Colpix.

Reception

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer commented that Forbidden Fruit was not a jazz album, but added that “Simone demonstrates here that she has the equipment and some of the potential to be a fairly good jazz vocalist”.

Track listing:
“Rags and Old Iron” (Norman Curtis, Oscar Brown, Jr)
“No Good Man” (Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham, Sammy Gallop)
“Gin House Blues” (Fletcher Henderson, Henry Troy)
“I’ll Look Around” (George Cory, Douglas Cross)
“I Love to Love” (Lennie Hayton, Herbert Baker)
“Work Song” (Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown, Jr)
“Where Can I Go Without You” (Peggy Lee, Victor Young)
“Just Say I Love Him” (Enzo Fusco, Rodolfo Falvo; Jack Val, Jimmy Dale, Martin Kalmanoff, Sam Ward)
“Memphis in June” (Paul Francis Webster, Hoagy Carmichael)
“Forbidden Fruit” (Oscar Brown, Jr)

Personnel:
Nina Simone – vocals, piano
Al Shackman – guitar
Chris White – bass
Bobby Hamilton – drums

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Released: 1961
Recorded: New York City 1961
Label: Colpix
Producer: Cal Lampley