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
The Man That Got Away
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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The stars have lost their glitter,
The winds grow colder,
And suddenly you're older
And all because of
The man that got away.
No more his eager call,
The dreams you dreamed have all
Gone astray.
The man that won you
Has run off and undone you.
That great beginning
Has seen it's final inning,
Don't know what happened
It's all a crazy game.
No more that all-time thrill
For you've been through the mill,
And never a new love will
Be the same.
Good riddance, good-bye.
Every trick of his you're on to
But fools will be fools and where's he gone to?
The road gets rougher,
It's lonelier and tougher.
With hope you burn up,
Tomorrow he may turn up.
There's just no letup
The livelong night and day.
Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman
Looking for the man that got away
The road gets rougher,
It's lonelier and tougher.
With hope you burn up,
Tomorrow he may turn up.
There's just no letup
The livelong night and day.
Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman
Looking for the man
The man that got away
The man that got away
is a song that talks about heartbreak and the pain that comes with losing someone you love. It is a song about being let down, disappointed, and perhaps even betrayed. The opening lines set the stage for the overall mood of the song - it is a bitter, cold night and the stars have lost their glitter. The singer feels lonely, and the winds seem to echo their pain.
The song then talks about the man that got away - the person who won the singer's heart and then left, leaving her feeling undone. The song talks about how the dreams they had together have all gone astray, and the once-great beginning of their relationship has now come to an end. The singer cannot explain what happened and feels like it was all a crazy game.
The chorus then talks about how the road gets rougher, and it becomes lonelier and tougher. Despite the pain, there is hope that he may come back, but the singer is burning up with this hope that never seems to materialize. The song concludes by stating that there is nothing sadder than a one-man woman looking for the man that got away.
Line by Line Meaning
The night is bitter,
The current moment and mood of the singer is filled with sadness and despair
The stars have lost their glitter,
The happiness and joy that once existed in the singer's life has faded away
The winds grow colder,
The situation is only getting worse and harder to handle for the singer.
And suddenly you're older
The artist feels like they have aged significantly in a short period of time due to the emotional turmoil they are experiencing.
And all because of
The artist's current state is solely due to
The man that got away.
the departure of the significant other that the singer cared for deeply
No more his eager call,
The singer will no longer receive the happy and loving calls from their significant other
The writing's on the wall,
It is clear from the actions of the significant other that the relationship is over.
The dreams you dreamed have all
All the hopes and aspirations that the artist envisioned for their life with the significant other have now vanished
Gone astray.
They have gone completely off course
The man that won you
The significant other who captured the singer's heart
Has run off and undone you.
The significant other has departed and left the artist feeling broken and incomplete
That great beginning
The amazing start to the relationship
Has seen it's final inning,
The relationship has come to an end
Don't know what happened
The singer has no idea what went wrong
It's all a crazy game.
Love is unpredictable and can be confusing
No more that all-time thrill
The thrill of love is no longer present
For you've been through the mill,
The singer has been through a lot of difficult situations in life
And never a new love will
The singer feels like love will never come again
Be the same.
Love will never be the same without the significant other
Good riddance, good-bye.
The artist is glad that the significant other has left their life and says goodbye to them
Every trick of his you're on to
The artist is aware of every deception and manipulation from the significant other
But fools will be fools and where's he gone to?
The singer knows that the significant other was a fool but doesn't know where they have gone to
The road gets rougher,
The path ahead will get harder
It's lonelier and tougher.
The path ahead is lonelier and harder to navigate without the significant other
With hope you burn up,
The singer holds onto hope and let it consume them entirely
Tomorrow he may turn up.
The singer is still hoping for the significant other to comeback tomorrow
There's just no letup
The sadness and despair will not go away
The livelong night and day.
The artist will experience this pain day and night without rest
Ever since this world began
Throughout the history of the world
There is nothing sadder than
Nothing evokes more sadness than
A one-man woman
A woman who loves only one man
Looking for the man that got away
Searching for the significant other who has departed and left the woman feeling incomplete
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: HAROLD ARLEN, IRA GERSHWIN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@Seabasstien
Love Nancy Wilson and Judy Garland and agree this is Judy's song. It does showcase how versatile a singer Nancy was. How did these two singes not make The Rolling Stones top 200 singers list?
@bronzevenus7836
Nancy Wilson is an incredible singer and performer. She knew not to try to out-torch Judy.
@jameswynn2221
Nancy looks Great and her styling of this song is her own,Ilove it
@jacquelinepaul9731
Interesting..but I'm not sure the greatest torch sing ever could improve with being jazzed up,however I still enjoyed it.