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 Things We Did Last Summer
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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The way we danced and hummed our favrite song
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
The midway and the fun, the kewpie dolls we won
The bell I rang to prove that I was strong
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
The lunches that we used to pack
We never could explain that sudden summer rain
The looks we got when we got back
The leaves began to fade like promises we made
How could a love that seemed so right go wrong?
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
Ive tried so to forget, at times I do, and yet
The memory of you lingers like our song
The things we did last summer, I'll remember all winter long
The lyrics to Nancy Wilson feat. George Shearing's song Things We Did Last Summer are nostalgic and bittersweet, capturing the memories of a past summer romance. The first verse paints a picture of a romantic boat ride under the moonlight, accompanied by a favorite song that they hum and dance to. "The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long" speaks to the enduring impact that the memories of that summer have on the singer, who knows that they will carry those memories with them long after the season ends.
The second verse shifts to a more playful tone, referencing the midway games and kewpie dolls that they won, as well as a bell-ringing challenge that the singer took on to prove their strength. The lyrics continue to paint sweet and simple scenes like early morning hikes and lunches packed for two. The sudden summer rain is a reminder of the unpredictability of life, and the looks they got coming back from their adventures hints at a societal pressure that the couple may have felt. As the final verse unfolds, the singer reminds the listener that the summer love they felt was once real, but it has since faded away like the leaves on the trees. They express the difficulty of forgetting and moving on from that time, with the memory of their love lingering on like the tune of their favorite song.
Overall, the lyrics to Things We Did Last Summer are a beautiful and relatable homage to a past love and the memories that stay with us long after they are gone.
Line by Line Meaning
The boat rides we would take, the moonlight on the lake
We used to take boat rides and admire the way the moonlight would reflect off the lake.
The way we danced and hummed our favrite song
We enjoyed dancing and humming our favorite song together.
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
I will remember all the things we did last summer throughout the entire winter.
The midway and the fun, the kewpie dolls we won
We had a lot of fun at the midway and won kewpie dolls as prizes.
The bell I rang to prove that I was strong
I rang a bell to prove my strength to others.
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
I will remember all the things we did last summer throughout the entire winter.
The early morning hike, the rented tandem bike
We went on an early morning hike and rented a tandem bike.
The lunches that we used to pack
We used to pack our lunches before going out.
We never could explain that sudden summer rain
We were never able to understand why it suddenly rained during the summer.
The looks we got when we got back
We received strange looks when we returned from the sudden summer rain.
The leaves began to fade like promises we made
Just like the leaves that started to fade, the promises we made to each other started to fade as well.
How could a love that seemed so right go wrong?
We cannot understand how a love that felt so perfect could have gone wrong.
The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long
I will remember all the things we did last summer throughout the entire winter.
Ive tried so to forget, at times I do, and yet
There have been times when I have tried to forget, and occasionally I am successful.
The memory of you lingers like our song
The memory of you still haunts me, like the melody of our song.
The things we did last summer, I'll remember all winter long
I will remember all the things we did last summer throughout the entire winter.
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JULE STYNE, SAMMY CAHN
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