McCorkle was born in Berkeley, California. She studied modern languages at the University of California, Berkeley. McCorkle began singing professionally after hearing recordings of Billie Holiday in Paris in the late 1960s. She nearly became an interpreter at the European Commission in Brussels, but moved instead to London in 1972 to pursue a career in singing. While in the UK, she made two albums which, although well received, enjoyed only limited circulation.
In the late 1970s, McCorkle returned to the United States and settled in New York City, where a five-month engagement at the Cookery in Greenwich Village brought her to wider public attention and elicited rave reviews from critics.
During the 1980s, McCorkle continued to record; her maturing style and the darkening timbre of her voice greatly enhanced her performances. In the early 1990s, two of the albums McCorkle made for Concord Records, No More Blues and Sábia, were enormously successful and made her name known to the wider world. She was recorded by the Smithsonian Institution which at the time made her the youngest singer ever to have been included in its popular music series. McCorkle played Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls five times and Carnegie Hall three times, and was featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and the 80-piece New York Pops in a concert of Brazilian music.
Thanks to her linguistic skills, McCorkle translated lyrics of Brazilian, French, and Italian songs, notably those for her Brazilian album Sabia. McCorkle also had several short stories published and, in 1991, began work on her first novel. She published fiction in Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and non-fiction in the New York Times Magazine and in American Heritage, including lengthy articles on Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin and Mae West.
McCorkle suffered for many years from depression and cancer, and took her own life at age 55 by leaping off the balcony of her highrise Manhattan apartment. She was alone in her home at the time. The police immediately entered her home after identifying her body and found no foul play. Suicide was ruled the cause of death.
S'Wonderful
Susannah McCorkle Lyrics
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That you thrill me through, with a tender pash,
When you said you care, 'magine my emoshe
I swore then and there, permanent devoshe,
You made all other men seem blah
Just you alone filled me with ahhhhhhhh......
's wonderful, 's marvellous
's awful nice, 's paradise,
's what I love to see.
You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous!
Oh 's wonderful, 's marvellous,
That you should care for me!
's magnificque, 's what I seek
You should care for me.
's elegant, 's what I want,
's what I love to see.
My dear, it's four leaved clover time,
From now on my heart's working overtime,
's exceptional, 's no bagatelle,
That you should care for...
That you should care for...
That you should care for me...
The lyrics of "S Wonderful" by Susannah McCorkle express the singer's elation at the fact that her love interest cares for her. She describes herself as being thrilled by his tender passion, and emotionally overwhelmed when he disclosed his feelings for her. She pledges permanent devotion in response to his romantic overture, declaring that he has made all other men seem uninteresting and ordinary, and he alone fills her with a sense of excitement and wonder. The singer further describes the transformative effect that her lover has had on her life, making it glamorous and exciting, arousing feelings of amorousness in her that she attributes to his care and attention.
The song's lyrics are a celebration of the transformative power of love, and the joy that can be experienced when one finds a partner who cares for them. The singer's passionate, emotional response to her lover's affection is a reflection of the intense emotions that love can evoke. The use of playful, inventive rhymes and repetition in the lyrics add to the joyous, optimistic mood of the song.
Line by Line Meaning
Don't mind telling you, in my humble fash
I don't mind admitting to you, in my own unassuming way
That you thrill me through, with a tender pash,
You excite such a deep feeling in me, with a gentle kiss
When you said you care, 'magine my emoshe
When you told me you care, imagine my emotional reaction
I swore then and there, permanent devoshe,
I vowed right then and there to love you forever
You made all other men seem blah
Compared to you, all other men seem unexciting and dull
Just you alone filled me with ahhhhhhhh......
Only you fill me with such immense pleasure
's wonderful, 's marvellous
It's amazing, it's incredible
You should care for me!
You should love me!
's awful nice, 's paradise,
It's incredibly pleasant, it's like paradise
's what I love to see.
It's what I enjoy seeing.
You've made my life so glamorous,
You've made my life so exciting and full of luxury
You can't blame me for feeling amorous!
I can't help feeling romantic and passionate towards you!
Oh 's wonderful, 's marvellous,
Oh, it's amazing, it's incredible
That you should care for me!
That you should love me!
's magnificque, 's what I seek
It's magnificent, it's what I'm searching for
You should care for me.
You should love me.
's elegant, 's what I want,
It's refined, it's what I desire
's what I love to see.
It's what I enjoy seeing.
My dear, it's four leaved clover time,
My dear, it's an incredibly lucky time for me
From now on my heart's working overtime,
From now on my heart is beating faster and harder
's exceptional, 's no bagatelle,
It's truly exceptional, it's not just ordinary
That you should care for...
That you should love...
That you should care for...
That you should love...
That you should care for me...
That you should love me...
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: GEORGE GERSHWIN, IRA GERSHWIN
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Natsu steps in singing a song about "'S Wonderful" by Susannah McCorkle for Lucy.