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
Little Girl Blue
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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What can you do
Old girl you're through
Just sit there and count your little fingers
Unlucky little girl blue.
Just sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
All you can count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use old girl
You may as well surrender
Your hopes are getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer up little girl blue
The lyrics of Nancy Wilson's song Little Girl Blue are sorrowful and depressing. The persona of the song is communicating a voice of a defeated and hopeless girl who sits and counts her fingers, implying that she has nothing else to give. The phrase "old girl, you're through" could be a metaphor for the end of a relationship or a lost dream. The title of the song "Little Girl Blue" also suggests that the persona is vulnerable and powerless.
The second verse of the song amplifies the sadness of the persona's situation by talking about the raindrops that fall on her. It paints a picture of someone who is hopeless and helpless, with nothing to count on but the raindrops. Nancy does an excellent job of expressing the dreariness and melancholy of the situation through the use of her slow and mournful tone.
The last verse of the lyrics depicts the persona as someone who has given up hope and surrendered. The use of the term "tender blue boy" suggests that the persona is seeking someone to give her comfort or joy. However, the fact that she is merely waiting for someone else to come to her rescue shows a lack of self-reliance.
Line by Line Meaning
Sit there and count your fingers
Just sit around with nothing to do
What can you do
You are helpless and cannot change your circumstances
Old girl, you're through
You have lost your chance and there is no turning back
Just sit there and count your little fingers
Continue doing nothing and don't expect anything to change
Unlucky little girl blue
Your life has been hard and full of disappointments
Just sit there and count the raindrops
Keep waiting for something that may never come
Falling on you
Reminding you of your sadness and misery
It's time you knew
You need to face the reality of your situation
All you can count on
There is nothing else to rely on
Are the raindrops
The only thing that is constant in your life
That fall on little girl blue
The sadness and pain that follows you everywhere
No use old girl
There is no point in trying anymore
You may as well surrender
Give up and accept your fate
Your hopes are getting slender
Your dreams are slowly fading away
Why won't somebody send a tender blue boy
Someone who can make you happy
To cheer up little girl blue
To bring a ray of hope and light to your life
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: LORENZ HART, RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Diane Hoffman
A great or shall we say one of the greatest singers!
Trecia
Thank you for uploading this song. Just love Nancy Wilson. Blessings
rhrhtnsmd
파면 팔 수록 좋은 곡, 감미로운 음성이 터져 나오는 것. 이것도 재즈의 묘미 중 하나인 것 같네.
Who Dat Superbowl Queen
The best, Nancy Wilson!
John Jarou
classy,talented lady. my favorite version of the song.
BuckieBear
A lovely presentation of a lovely, rarely-heard song. Thanks for info about it, too.
ShesThe Beth
Oh-oh, now I have a craving. I'm going to have to binge on 60s music and movies all weekend.
Sebastiano Picciuca
My 1st concert was Nancy Wilson with the Adderly Bros. at the old McCormack Place in Chicago
ray matthews
Blessed on earth and crowned in heaven.
Marcel Audubon
wish she hadn't changed "to cheer little girl blue" to "to cheer up little girl blue"
Don't mess with Mr. Hart's lyric.
Other than that, it's wonderful version that we have here.