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
All for Love
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Why I'm so in love with you
No one else in this world will do
Darling please save your love for me
Run away
If I were wise I'd run away
But like a fool in love I stay
I can feel it
Even when you're not here
Can't conceal it
I really love you my dear
And though I know no good
Can come from loving you
I can't do a thing I'm so in love with you
So darling
Help me please
Have mercy on a fool like me
I know I'm lost but still I plead
Darling please save you love for me
You can have fun with the crowd
But for crying out loud
Darling please save your love for me
The song "All for Love" by Nancy Wilson is a beautiful ballad that lays bare the singer's feelings of being helplessly in love with someone. The first verse of the song reveals the sense of mystery and wonder that the singer feels about the person she loves. She wishes she knew why she's so in love with them and acknowledges that they are the only one for her. In spite of all this, she implores them to save their love for her. In the second verse, she admits that she should run away from this love, but she can't seem to help herself from holding onto her feelings. She knows that no good can come from loving someone like this, but she is so deeply in love with them that she cannot resist. She begs them to have mercy on a "fool like me" and save their love for her.
The bridge of the song further illustrates the singer's feelings. She confesses that even when the person is not around, she feels their love so intensely that she cannot conceal it. She admits to the audience that she knows that no good can come from loving this person, but she cannot abandon them. In the end, she pleads with them to save their love for her, but also acknowledges that they can have fun with other people. But ultimately, she begs them to save their love for her, suggesting that her feelings for this person are deep and everlasting.
Line by Line Meaning
Wish I knew
I wish I knew why I am in love with you.
Why I'm so in love with you
I don't know why I love you so much.
No one else in this world will do
You are the only one for me in this world.
Darling please save your love for me
Please keep your love for me, my dear.
Run away
If I were sensible, I would run away.
If I were wise I'd run away
I know I should leave, but I am foolishly in love with you.
But like a fool in love I stay
Even though I know I shouldn't, I remain in love with you.
And pray you'll save your love for me
I hope you will only love me as I love you.
I can feel it
I can sense my love for you.
Even when you're not here
Even when you're absent, my love for you remains.
Can't conceal it
I cannot hide my love for you.
I really love you my dear
I deeply and truly love you.
And though I know no good
Although I know it is not wise.
Can come from loving you
Loving you is not a good idea.
I can't do a thing I'm so in love with you
I am helpless in my love for you.
So darling
My sweet love.
Help me please
Please assist me.
Have mercy on a fool like me
Please forgive me for foolishly loving you.
I know I'm lost but still I plead
I know I'm beyond redemption, but I am still begging you.
You can have fun with the crowd
You can enjoy time with other people.
But for crying out loud
Please, just for me.
Darling please save your love for me
Please keep your love for me, my dear.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: BUDDY JOHNSON
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TrinStar
I have loved this song since Say Anything. So underrated and beautiful!!
ron walker
What!!! Lol same
Wildcock23
I think this is the perfect song to conclude the magic of 1980s movies... "Say Anything"
MARK B
This was the movie my bride of 27 years and I saw on our first date. All for Love and In Your Eyes has been our songs every since. It was the beginning of an Amazing Love story of now over 30 years. Love those memories.
bythedog
Lucky man!
Forrest Pitts
gorgeous
DragonHeart613
Iconic movie, iconic song!!! I never get tired of watching Say Anything & I never get tired of listening to Nancy Wilson's All for Love either :)
Blake Ashcraft
I love this song it has a lot of meaning to it.
Zaeema Khan (Alumni)
This is such a beautiful song...... I feel like falling in love when I hear it.....
todd blankenship
Say Anything is one of the very few movies that still affect me as much as what it did when I was a 20 something