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
Mercy Mercy Mercy
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Like one of those bunnies out of a Playboy Club
But she got somethin' much greater than gold
Crazy bout that girl cause she got so much soul
I said she got the kind of lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow and I know
That she knocks me off my feet
Cause she knocks me off my feet
There is no girl in the whole world
That can love me like you do
My baby when she walks by
All the fellows go mmmm, and I know why
Its simply cause that girl she looks so fine
And if she ever leaves me I would lose my mind
Everybody in the neighborhood
Will testify that my girl she looks so good
Shes so fine shed give eyesight to the blind
And if she ever leaves me I would lose my mind
Baby, yeah, you got that soulful feel, yeah, its all right
Mercy, mercy, mercy
Nancy Wilson's song Mercy Mercy Mercy is a love song dedicated to the singer's partner. The opening lines allude to the fact that the woman she is singing about does not fit society's standard of beauty. Although she may not be as conventionally attractive as the bunnies from the Playboy Club, she has a rare quality that is worth more than gold - soul. She loves the woman for who she is, not for what she looks like on the outside. The singer goes on to describe the kind of love her partner gives her, which is gentle and comforting. She is grateful to call her partner hers and admits that her partner's love has made her weak.
The chorus in Mercy Mercy Mercy reiterates how much the singer's partner means to her. She feels incredibly lucky to have someone who loves her so deeply, someone who can make her feel like she is on top of the world. The love between the two is so strong that nobody else in the world could match it. The second verse reinforces the idea that the singer's partner may not be the most beautiful, but her looks are still enough to make many men turn their heads. The singer is aware of how lucky she is to have her and promises that she would be heartbroken if her partner ever left her. The song ends with the chorus again, conveying how soulful her partner is and how grateful she is to have her in her life.
Line by Line Meaning
My baby she may not a-look
Like one of those bunnies out of a Playboy Club
But she got somethin' much greater than gold
Crazy bout that girl cause she got so much soul
Although my baby may not have the looks of a Playboy bunny, she has something much greater than material wealth - a soulful personality that I am crazy about.
I said she got the kind of lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow and I know
That she knocks me off my feet
Have mercy on me
Cause she knocks me off my feet
There is no girl in the whole world
That can love me like you do
My baby's affectionate gestures are so soothing and I'm glad to be her partner. She has me falling head over heels for her, there's nobody like her that can love me like she does.
My baby when she walks by
All the fellows go mmmm, and I know why
Its simply cause that girl she looks so fine
And if she ever leaves me I would lose my mind
Whenever my baby walks by, everyone compliments her and I understand why. It's because she looks great. But if I lose her, I would go crazy.
Everybody in the neighborhood
Will testify that my girl she looks so good
Shes so fine shed give eyesight to the blind
And if she ever leaves me I would lose my mind
Everyone in the neighborhood agrees that my girl looks amazing. She's so attractive that even the blind would appreciate her beauty. But if she left me, I would lose my sanity.
Baby, yeah, you got that soulful feel, yeah, its all right
Mercy, mercy, mercy
My baby, you have that soulful vibe that I love. Everything about you is amazing, and I can't get enough of it. Mercy, mercy, mercy.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: BOB BALDWIN, HOWARD HEWITT, KYLE BYNOE
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