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 Thought About You
Nancy Wilson Lyrics

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Seems that I read, or somebody said
That out of sight is out of mind
Maybe that's so but I tried to go
And leave you behind, what did I find...

I took a trip on the train
And I thought about you,
I passed a shadowy lane

And I thought about you,

Two or three cars parked under the stars
A winding stream
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam, same old dream

At every stop that we made
Oh, I thought about you
But when I pulled down the shade
Then I really felt blue,

I peeked through the crack
And looked at the track
The one going back to you

And what did I do
I thought about you

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Nancy Wilson's "I Thought About You" describe the struggle of trying to move on from someone who is no longer present in one's life. The opening line references the common saying, "out of sight, out of mind," which suggests that when someone is no longer around, they are easily forgotten. The singer acknowledges that this may be true, but still finds herself thinking about the person she tried to leave behind. The train ride mentioned in the second verse symbolizes a physical attempt to distance oneself from the past. However, everywhere the singer looks, she is reminded of her lost love. This is particularly evident in the moon shining down on a little town, which is an example of a romantic symbol often associated with nostalgia and longing.

Despite her best efforts to forget, the singer cannot help but think about the person she left behind. In the final verse, she confesses to peeking through the crack of her train window to catch a glimpse of the track that leads back to her former lover. This action displays a genuine desire to return to the past, despite previous attempts to move on. Ultimately, the lyrics suggest that physical distance and the passage of time are not always enough to erase feelings of love and regret.

Line by Line Meaning

Seems that I read, or somebody said
It appears that I may have heard or learned from someone

That out of sight is out of mind
That when something or someone is not visible, they tend to be forgotten

Maybe that's so but I tried to go
Possibly that is true but I made an attempt to leave anyway

And leave you behind, what did I find...
To move on from you, what did I come across...

I took a trip on the train
I embarked on a ride aboard a locomotive

And I thought about you
And you were in my thoughts

I passed a shadowy lane
I proceeded past a dimly lit pathway

And I thought about you
And you were in my thoughts

Two or three cars parked under the stars
Around two or three automobiles were parked beneath the nighttime sky

A winding stream
A meandering body of water

Moon shining down on some little town
The moon illuminating over some small settlement

And with each beam, same old dream
With each ray, the identical wishful notion

At every stop that we made
All the times we halted

Oh, I thought about you
Oh, how you filled my thoughts

But when I pulled down the shade
Nevertheless, when I lowered the window covering

Then I really felt blue
Then I truly became downcast or sad

I peeked through the crack
I slyly took a look through the crevice

And looked at the track
And gazed upon the railroad trail

The one going back to you
The one leading in your direction

And what did I do
And what did I undertake

I thought about you
I obsessed over you

Lyrics © CARLIN AMERICA INC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: James Van Heusen, Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer

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