1) Nancy Sue Wilson - … Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Nancy Sue Wilson - jazz diva best known for her 60s standards recordings.
2) Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson - singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and member of the group Heart.
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1) Nancy Sue Wilson (born February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, OH, United States – December 13, 2018, in Pioneertown, CA, United States) was a jazz diva famous for recording American standards in the 60s.
She was among contemporary music's most stylish and sultry vocalists; while often crossing over into the pop and R&B markets -- and even hosting her own television variety program -- she remained best known as a jazz performer, renowned for her work alongside figures including Cannonball Adderley and George Shearing. Wilson first attracted notice performing the club circuit in nearby Columbus; she quickly earned a growing reputation among jazz players and fans, and she was recording regularly by the late '50s, eventually signing to Capitol and issuing LPs including 1959's Like in Love and Nancy Wilson with Billy May's Orchestra. Her dates with Shearing, including 1960's The Swingin's Mutual, solidified her standing as a talent on the rise, and her subsequent work with Adderley -- arguably her finest recordings -- further cemented her growing fame and reputation.
In the years to follow, however, Wilson often moved away from jazz, much to the chagrin of purists; she made numerous albums, many of them properly categorized as pop and R&B outings, and toured extensively, appearing with everyone from Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan to Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker. She even hosted her own Emmy-winning variety series for NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show, and was a frequent guest performer on other programs; hits of the period included "Tell Me the Truth," "How Glad I Am," "Peace of Mind," and "Now, I'm a Woman." Regardless of how far afield she traveled, Wilson always maintained her connections to the jazz world, and in the 1980s, she returned to the music with a vengeance, working closely with performers including Hank Jones, Art Farmer, Ramsey Lewis, and Benny Golson. By the 1990s, she was a favorite among the "new adult contemporary" market, her style ideally suited to the format's penchant for lush, romantic ballads; she also hosted the Jazz Profiles series on National Public Radio.
In the early 2000s, Wilson recorded two albums with Ramsey Lewis for Narada (2002's Meant to Be and 2003's Simple Pleasures). Her 2004 album R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) was a blend of straight-ahead jazz and ballads, similar to her next record, 2006's Turned to Blue, which, like R.S.V.P., used a different instrumentalist for each track. In 2005, Capitol released a three-part series to pay tribute to Wilson's contributions to music in the '50s and '60s: Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy Wilson Sings Songs of Lost Love, Save Your Love for Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballads, and The Great American Songbook.
Wilson died from a long-illness on December 13, 2018 at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
2) Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954, San Francisco, CA, United States), more popularly known as Nancy Wilson, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. Along with her older sister Ann Wilson, she is part of the Seattle/Vancouver rock band Heart. She is married to film director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe and has composed and performed music for most of Crowe's movies, including Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, and Elizabethtown.
While Ann is the lead singer on most of the Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on Treat Me Well, These Dreams, Stranded, There's the Girl and Will You Be There (In The Morning), and frequently performs background vocals. She is also the band's rhythm and lead guitarist. In 1999, she released a live solo album, Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop.
Solo albums
1999 - Live At McCabes Guitar Shop
2005 - Elizabethtown
2009 - Baby Guitars
2016 - Undercover Guitar (with Julie Bergman)
2021 - You and Me
A Fool In Love
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Love's a crazy game
Two people vow to stay
In love as one they say
But all is changed with time
The future no one can see
The road you leave behind
But all is fair in love
I had to go away
A writer takes his pen
To write the words again
That all in love is fair
All of fate's a chance
It's either good or bad
I tossed my coin to say
In love with me you'd stay
But all in war is so cold
You either win or lose
When all is put away
The losing side I'll play
But all is fair in love
I should never have left your side
A writer takes his pen
To write the words again
That all in love is fair
A writer takes his pen
To write the words again
That all in love is fair
The lyrics to Nancy Wilson's song "All in Love Is Fair" explores the unpredictability of love and how it can change over time. The first two lines denote love as a game, where two people vow to stay in love as one. However, the subsequent lines highlight the uncertainty of love and how it can be changed over time, without any certain future. The line "But all in war is so cold, you either win or lose" could be interpreted as a metaphorical reference to a broken relationship, where the singer feels like they have lost in love.
The second stanza expands on the idea of fate's unpredictability, where it could either be good or bad. The singer takes a chance and declares that in love with them, their partner would stay. However, they later reveal that the road of love is not always certain, and it can even be cold like war. In the final lines, the singer becomes remorseful for leaving their partner's side and states that a writer takes his pen to write words again that all in love is fair, tying back to the idea that it is a game where both sides have a fair chance.
Line by Line Meaning
All is fair in love
In the game of love, everything is permissible and acceptable.
Love's a crazy game
The feeling of love can drive people to do unexplainable things.
Two people vow to stay
Two people promise to remain committed to one another.
In love as one they say
They declare that they are in love and united as one.
But all is changed with time
Things change over time, including feelings and circumstances.
The future no one can see
Nobody knows what the future holds.
The road you leave behind
The path that you have already taken in life.
Ahead lies mystery
What the future holds is unknown and unpredictable.
I had to go away
The singer had to leave her lover for some reason.
A writer takes his pen
The songwriter uses her craft to express her thoughts and feelings.
To write the words again
To revisit and revisit the idea that all is fair in love.
That all in love is fair
Love is a game in which the rules are unclear and anything goes.
All of fate's a chance
Everything in life is unpredictable and subject to chance.
It's either good or bad
Things are either successful or unsuccessful and there is no in-between.
I tossed my coin to say
The singer took a chance on love and threw caution to the wind.
In love with me you'd stay
She hoped that her lover would choose to stay with her in love.
But all in war is so cold
During times of conflict, there is little compassion or mercy.
You either win or lose
Success or failure is the only outcome in a war.
When all is put away
After everything is swept up and cleared away.
The losing side I'll play
In this situation, the singer is resigned to being on the losing side.
I should never have left your side
Hindsight reveals that leaving the lover was a mistake.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Stevie Wonder
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