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
On the Street Where You Live
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live
Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour out of every door?
And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near
The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear
People stop and stare, they don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by, I won't care if I
Can be here on the street where you live
The lyrics of Nancy Wilson's song "On The Street Where You Live" depict the feelings of being near someone that one is enamored with. The first verse establishes that the singer has walked down the street before, but there's something different happening now: the pavement doesn't feel the same. The second line confirms that this change in feeling is due to being close to the person they're fond of. They feel elevated and as if they're several stories high because they're in the presence of the person they care about.
In the second verse, the singer asks if there are lilac trees or larks in any other part of town, wondering if this enchantment is exclusive to this particular street. The lyrics imply that the singer is so enamored with the person that they believe that everything around them has been made more magical simply by being near them. And, as the chorus says, the mere possibility of being near the object of their affection is enough to make them feel elated. They don't care about time passing, as long as they can stay on that street and be near the person they love.
The final line of this song beautifully sums up the emotion of the entire song: "The street where you live." It demonstrates that the person the singer is singing about has an enormous impact on their life and emotions, and that everything else falls away in comparison.
Line by Line Meaning
I have often walked down this street before
I've wandered down this road many times in my life
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
Yet the usual scenery and sensations of this route did not change
All at once am I several stories high
Suddenly, I experience intense euphoria
Knowing I'm on the street where you live
as I'm aware that you reside on this avenue
Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Does the urban center host lilac trees?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Is it possible to perceive the sweet song of a lark in surrounding urban districts?
Does enchantment pour out of every door?
Do bewitching scenes flow from the opens doors of buildings all over the city?
No, it's just on the street where you live
No, these magical impressions are isolated to this particular street
And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near
Oh, the grand sensation that arrives with the realization that you are in close proximity
The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear
This sensation is intense and overwhelming, making it feel like you could be here at any instant
People stop and stare, they don't bother me
Onlookers stop and take notice but have no effect on me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
As there is simply no other place on this planet I would like to spend my time at
Let the time go by, I won't care if I
The passage of time is inconsequential as long as I am
Can be here on the street where you live
on this street where you live
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
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