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 Wish You Love
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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My love for you should have faded long ago.
I wish I didn't need your kiss
Why must your kiss torture me as long as this.
I might be smilin' by now
With some new tender friend.
Smilin' by now
But when I try
Something in that heart says "No".
You're still there
I wish I didn't love you so.
Nancy Wilson's "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" is a sentimental ballad with a complex emotional narrative at its heart. The song opens with the singer expressing regret over the persistence of her love for someone who, she believes, has long since lost interest in her. She wishes that her feelings for this person had "faded long ago," but instead her love persists, as symbolized by the potency of his kiss. The singer muses that, were it not for her lingering love, she might be able to move on to a new romance, but her heart won't let her forget.
Line by Line Meaning
I wish I didn't love you so
I regret that I still have strong feelings of love for you, despite the difficulties our relationship has brought me.
My love for you should have faded long ago
I expected my feelings for you to diminish over time, but they have persisted instead.
I wish I didn't need your kiss
Although your kiss brings me pain, I cannot resist seeking it out.
Why must your kiss torture me as long as this
I do not understand why your kiss continues to cause me emotional distress, despite my desire to move on from our relationship.
I might be smilin' by now
Under different circumstances, I could be happy and content without you in my life.
With some new tender friend
If I had found someone else to share my affection with, I could be experiencing joy and companionship.
Smilin' by now
I should be happy and carefree, but instead I am weighed down by thoughts of you.
With my heart on the mend
I should be healing from the pain of our relationship, but instead I am still struggling to move on.
But when I try
Despite my efforts to move on, I am still drawn towards you emotionally.
Something in that heart says 'No'
My heart is resistant to the idea of letting go of my feelings for you.
You're still there
You continue to occupy a significant place in my thoughts and emotions, even after our relationship has ended.
I wish I didn't love you so
Overall, I deeply regret that my emotions continue to be entangled with yours, despite the pain and difficulty it brings to my life.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Frank Loesser
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