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
Song Is You
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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A beautiful theme of ev'ry dream I ever knew.
Down deep in my heart, I hear it play,
I feel it start then melt away.
I hear music when I touch your hand,
A beautiful mel-o-dy from some en-chan-ted land,
I alone have heard this lovely strain,
I alone have heard this glad refrain,
Must it be for-ev-er in-side of me
Why can't I let it go?
Why can't I let you know?
Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing?
That beau-ti-ful rhap-so-dy of love and youth and spring,
The mu-sic is sweet the words are true,
The song is you.
The lyrics to Nancy Wilson's "The Song Is You" describe the feeling of being completely enamored with someone, to the point that music seems to play whenever the person is present. The singer hears music when they look at the person, describing it as a "beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew." The music starts deep in the singer's heart and then fades away. When they touch the person's hand, they hear a beautiful melody from an enchanted land. They question whether this is the day that they will finally be able to let the music inside them go and reveal their feelings to the person they love.
The singer hears a lovely strain that only they have heard, a glad refrain that they cannot seem to let go of. They wonder why they cannot let the person know the song their heart would sing, a "beautiful rhapsody of love and youth and spring." The music is sweet and the words are true, and the song is the person they are singing about.
Overall, the song is a beautiful expression of the overwhelming feeling of love and the desire to share it with the person who inspires such strong emotions.
Line by Line Meaning
I hear music when I look at you,
When I set my eyes upon you, a harmonious tune swarms my senses.
A beautiful theme of ev'ry dream I ever knew.
It's a lovely melody that echoes in my head and harmonizes with every joyous dream I've ever had.
Down deep in my heart, I hear it play,
This melodious tune resonates deep within the confines of my heart, playing loud and clear.
I feel it start then melt away.
It begins to play and gradually fades away slowly.
I hear music when I touch your hand,
I perceive a harmonious melody when I come in contact with your hand.
A beautiful mel-o-dy from some en-chan-ted land,
It's an enchanting tune from a place beyond my imagination that plays whenever I touch your hand.
Down deep in my heart, I hear it say is this the day?
It whispers softly to my heart, asking if this is the day I've been waiting for.
I alone have heard this lovely strain,
This beautiful tune is a private pleasure known only to me.
I alone have heard this glad refrain,
This joyful melody resounds only in my heart.
Must it be for-ev-er in-side of me
Is it destined to be within me forevermore?
Why can't I let it go?
Why can't I just forget about it?
Why can't I let you know?
Why can't I confide in you and reveal what's in my heart?
Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing?
Why won't I share the melody my heart sings with you?
That beau-ti-ful rhap-so-dy of love and youth and spring,
It's a beautiful ballad that sings about the affection and freshness associated with spring and youth.
The mu-sic is sweet the words are true,
The melody is melodious, and the lyrics are pure and truthful.
The song is you.
The song is not the melody or lyrics, but rather it's you that the song is all about.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Jerome Kern, Oscar II Hammerstein
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