There is more than one artist with this name:

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

When Sunny Gets Blue
Nancy Wilson Lyrics

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When Sunny gets blue
Her eyes get gray and cloudy
Then the rain begins to fall
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter
Love is gone, what can matter
No sweet lover man comes to call

When Sunny gets blue

She breaths a sigh of sadness
Like the wind that stirs the trees
Wind that sets the leaves to swaying
Like some violin
Is playing strange
And haunting melodies

People used to love to hear her laugh
See her smile
That's how she got her name
Since that sad affair
She lost her smile, changed her style
Somehow she's not the same

Chorus:
When Sunny gets blue
Pretty dreams will rise up
Where her other dreams fell through
Hurry new love, hurry here
To kiss away each lonely tear
And hold her near when Sunny gets blue

(Repete 3 estrofe)

(Chorus)

Overall Meaning

The song "When Sunny Gets Blue" by Nancy Wilson is a melancholic ballad that delves into the emotions of a woman named Sunny who is dealing with heartbreak. The song is composed in a way that captures the mood of sadness and loneliness that Sunny is feeling in the aftermath of her heartbreak. The lyrics talk about how Sunny's eyes become gray and cloudy when she is sad, and how this is like a metaphorical rain that begins to fall. The pitter-patter of this rain is symbolic of the tears that Sunny sheds when she is left alone after losing her lover. The song goes on to describe how Sunny sighs with sadness, and this is compared to the wind that stirs the trees, and sets the leaves to swaying. This creates a haunting melody that is compared to a violin playing. The lyrics suggest that people used to love to hear Sunny laugh and see her smile, but since a sad affair, she has lost her smile and changed her style, becoming someone different. The chorus of the song talks about how pretty dreams will rise up when her other dreams fall through, and she is left alone. It is a plea to a new lover to hurry and kiss away each lonely tear and hold her near when Sunny gets blue.

Line by Line Meaning

When Sunny gets blue
Whenever Sunny feels down

Her eyes get gray and cloudy
Her eyes lose their spark

Then the rain begins to fall
It starts to rain

Pitter-patter, pitter-patter
The sound of the rain

Love is gone, what can matter
Love is gone and nothing else seems to matter

No sweet lover man comes to call
No man comes to comfort her

She breaths a sigh of sadness
She lets out a sad sigh

Like the wind that stirs the trees
Her sigh is like the wind that moves the trees

Wind that sets the leaves to swaying
The wind makes the leaves dance

Like some violin
Her sigh sounds like a violin

Is playing strange
Playing an eerie