There is more than one artist with this name:

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

I'm All Smiles
Nancy Wilson Lyrics

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I'm all smiles, darling
You'd be too
If you knew, darling
All of my smiles were for you

I'm all chills, darling
Through and through
But my cold hands, darling

Warm to the touch of you

Rain hasn't fallen for days now
But rainbows are filling the skies
My heart must have planted those rainbows
Shining before my eyes

Can't you tell that I'm in love, darling?
Deep and true
With guess who, darling
Someone I'd die for, beg, steal or lie for

Eat humble pie for someone to fly
To the sun, moon and sky for someone to live for
To laugh with and cry for
And that someone is you

I'm all smiles
I'm all smiles

I'm all smiles
I'm all smiles

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Nancy Wilson's song "I'm All Smiles" convey a sense of love, joy, and devotion. The singer talks about how all of their smiles are for someone special, and how even their chills warm to the touch of that person. The imagery of rainbows filling the sky and the singer's heart planting them suggest that this love is something deeper and more powerful than just a passing infatuation. The singer then goes on to declare their love for this person, saying they would do anything for them, even eat humble pie, lie, beg, or steal. The repeated refrain of "I'm all smiles" reinforces the idea that this relationship brings the singer immense happiness and contentment.

Overall, the lyrics to "I'm All Smiles" convey a sense of deep love and devotion, with images of warmth, joy, and hope. The song is a tribute to the power of human connection and the transformative effect that it can have on our lives.

Line by Line Meaning

I'm all smiles, darling
I am very happy, my dear

You'd be too
You would also be happy

If you knew, darling
If you knew why I am happy

All of my smiles were for you
All of my happiness is because of you

I'm all chills, darling
I feel a strong chill, my dear

Through and through
All over me

But my cold hands, darling
Although my hands are cold, my dear

Warm to the touch of you
They become warm when they touch you

Rain hasn't fallen for days now
It has not rained for several days

But rainbows are filling the skies
However, the sky is full of rainbows

My heart must have planted those rainbows
My heart feels responsible for bringing those rainbows