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 Very Thought of You
Nancy Wilson Lyrics
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Your picture is always in my head
I don't need you portrait, dear, to call you to mind
For sleeping or waking, dear, I find
The very thought of you
And I forget to do
The little ordinary things
That everyone ought to do
I'm happy as a queen
And foolish though it may seem
To me that's everything
The mere idea of you
The longing I hear for you
You'll never know
How slow the moments go
Till I'm near to you
I see your face in every flower
Your eyes in stars above
It's just the thought of you
The very thought of you, my love
In this song, Nancy Wilson sings about how she doesn't need any physical reminders of her loved one to keep them close to her. She doesn't need a photograph by her bed or a portrait to call them to mind because their image is always with her in her thoughts. She admits that the mere idea of her loved one is enough to make her forget about the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do because she's living in a daydream where she imagines being with them. She's happy as a queen, and despite how foolish it may seem, the very thought of her loved one is everything to her.
The very thought of her loved one consumes her every waking moment, and she longs to be near them. She expresses how slow time seems to go until she can be with them - this shows how much she desires and misses her loved one. Even in nature, she sees her loved one's face in flowers and their eyes in the stars above. The very thought of her loved one is enough to make her feel complete and in love.
Overall, the lyrics of this song express the depth of the singer's feelings for her loved one and how much they mean to her. It portrays the idea of how love can consume our thoughts and make us live in a dream-like state until we can be with our loved one.
Line by Line Meaning
I don't need your photograph to keep by my bed
I don't require a picture of you to remember you, since your image is ingrained in my memory.
Your picture is always in my head
Your picture is continually present in my thoughts, and therefore, I don't require an actual picture.
I don't need you portrait, dear, to call you to mind
I do not require a painted, drawn, or engraved rendering of you to remember or think of you.
For sleeping or waking, dear, I find
Regardless of whether I'm awake or asleep, I'm constantly reminded of you.
The very thought of you
The mere idea of you is enough to excite me, and drive my thoughts towards you.
And I forget to do
Your presence in my mind is so strong that it causes me to forget about even the most important activities.
The little ordinary things
The mundane tasks that require my attention, care, and time, are typically forgotten due to my preoccupation with thoughts of you.
That everyone ought to do
Everyone needs to take care of their daily responsibilities that cannot be ignored or forgotten.
I'm living in a kind of daydream
My mind is preoccupied with thoughts of you to the extent that I'm lost in a fantasy world.
I'm happy as a queen
Despite living in a fantasy, I'm content and delighted.
And foolish though it may seem
Others may consider my obsession with the thought of you foolish.
To me that's everything
However, to me, that's everything - the most important thing that I cherish and value the most.
The mere idea of you
My love for you is so powerful that the idea or thought of you alone is sufficient to make me happy and fulfilled.
The longing I hear for you
The absence of your presence causes me to long and yearn for you deeply.
You'll never know
You cannot perceive, comprehend or appreciate the extent of my longing or love for you.
How slow the moments go
Moments without you which drag on for too long feel like an eternity to me.
Till I'm near to you
Only when I am close to you, or in your arms, do those moments appear to vanish or speed up.
I see your face in every flower
Everything in nature, from the flowers to the stars reminds me of your beauty and your face.
Your eyes in stars above
The beauty of the stars make me think of your eyes and the charm they possess.
It's just the thought of you
The idea or thought of you alone brings me so much joy and happiness.
The very thought of you, my love
Just the thought of you, my love, is enough to turn my day around, bring me to a state of joy, and make me feel fulfilled.
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, CONSALAD CO., Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Ray Noble
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