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 Nearness of You
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
All my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night the nearness of you
The lyrics to Nancy Wilson's song The Nearness of You speak of the overwhelming feeling of being close to someone special, and how that feeling can bring about intense emotions without any other external stimuli. The first two lines of the song say, "It's not the pale moon that excites me, That thrills and delights me, oh no, It's just the nearness of you". Here the singer is saying that it isn't the beauty of the moon that's making them feel a certain way, rather it's the fact that they're very close to someone special that is giving them those feelings.
In the next verse, "It isn't your sweet conversation, That brings this sensation, oh no, It's just the nearness of you", the singer is saying that it isn't even the words the person is saying to them, but rather it's just the feeling of being near the person that is making them feel euphoric. The singer then goes on to describe how being in the arms of this person and feeling their closeness allows all their wildest dreams to come true. The singer doesn't need any extra frills or things to enhance the experience, they are purely content with just being near and holding the person they love.
The song conveys a message of the intense emotions that can be felt when one is close to a person who they love or have strong feelings for. It speaks to the power of intimacy and how it can be the most fulfilling and satisfying experience one can have with their significant other.
Line by Line Meaning
It's not the pale moon that excites me
The moon's color doesn't have any effect on me.
That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's not the feeling of being thrilled or entertained.
It's just the nearness of you
It's the fact that you are near me that elicits this emotion within me.
It isn't your sweet conversation
Your words or the tone in which they are said are not what invokes these feelings.
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's not the excitement or tingling sensations that come from spoken words.
It's just the nearness of you
It is just having you close that gives me this emotion.
When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me
The sensation in my arms when you are so near me.
All my wildest dreams come true
My most profound desires become a reality.
I need no soft lights to enchant me
I don't require the ambiance of dim light or mood-setting objects.
If you'll only grant me the right
If only you'd allow me the pleasure of doing this.
To hold you ever so tight
To have you securely held in my arms.
And to feel in the night the nearness of you
Feeling your closeness during the night.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington
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