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 Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Laugh, and forget this affair
Guess I was foolish
To care.
So I'm gonna dance you right out of my dreams,
Try to be carefree and gay
I guess I'll learn to play
'Cause when our friends begin that
Heartless rumor,
I know I'll really need my
Sense of humor.
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
Make it a beautiful joke.
No one will know you broke
My heart.
But if I find you and I
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard,
I'll cry.
But if I find you and I
Really meant that last goodbye,
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard...
I'll cry.
The lyrics to Nancy Wilson's song "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life" is about someone who has been hurt by a lover and decides to move on by laughing their former lover out of their life. The lyrics start by saying that the person is going to laugh their lover out of their life and forget about the affair because they were foolish to care in the first place. The next verse talks about how they are going to dance their lover out of their dreams and be carefree from now on. The singer acknowledges that it won't be easy, but they will learn to play the part.
The third verse talks about how their friends will start talking about the breakup, but the singer will need to keep their sense of humor. The chorus repeats the sentiment of laughing the former lover out of their life but saying that it will be a beautiful joke, so no one will know they broke the singer's heart. However, the last verse admits that if the singer finds their lover, and the goodbye was sincere, then they will laugh so hard that they will cry.
This song's lyrics are a bittersweet reflection on moving on from a relationship. It speaks to the optimism and hope of trying to leave the past behind and start anew in a lighthearted way, but also acknowledges the pain and sadness that comes with letting go of something that was once dear to you. It ultimately speaks to the human experience of love and loss and the ways we try to cope with it.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
I am going to laugh so much that you'll fade away from my life.
Laugh, and forget this affair
I'm going to laugh and forget about this relationship we had.
Guess I was foolish
I now realize that I was naive and silly for falling for you.
To care.
To get too emotionally invested in you.
So I'm gonna dance you right out of my dreams,
I'll dance and try to forget about you and our memories together.
Try to be carefree and gay
I'll try to be happy and free, without worrying about our past.
I guess I'll learn to play
I think I'll have to get better at pretending everything's okay.
The part.
The part of being fine without you.
'Cause when our friends begin that
Because when our mutual friends start talking about and spreading
Heartless rumor,
mean rumors about us;
I know I'll really need my
I'll realize that I'll require my
Sense of humor.
sense of humor to get through that situation.
I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life,
Still, I am going to laugh so much that I will forget you in a heartbeat.
Make it a beautiful joke.
I'll turn our love story into a beautiful joke.
No one will know you broke
No one will ever know that you were responsible for shattering
My heart.
my heart and hurting me deeply.
But if I find you and I
However, if I find you again and we
Really meant that last goodbye,
truly meant our last goodbye;
Then I'm gonna laugh so hard,
I will laugh so much that
I'll cry.
my laughter will turn into tears.
Lyrics © WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC
Written by: CY COLEMAN, JOSEPH MCCARTHY JR.
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