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Nancy Wilson - Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues Audio CD

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Nancy Wilson Band: Nancy Wilson
Title: Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues
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Release Date: 1991-05-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Song Is You 2: Very Thought of You 3: Satin Doll 4: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 5: Sufferin' With the Blues 6: Someone to Watch over Me 7: Best Is Yet to Come 8: Never Let Me Go 9: Send Me Yesterday 10: All My Tomorrows 11: Please Send Me Someone to Love 12: Blue Prelude 13: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? [*] 14: Show Goes On [*] 15: West Coast Blues [*] 16: Tell Me the Truth [*] 17: My Sweet Thing [*]

J. from Nashville, Tn
Nancy Wilson's presentation of these songs are terrific. The songs, the arrangements, and the vocals are as good and as relevent as I remembered the album I owned in the mid-60's. Gerald Wilson's arrangements are both lush and jazzy. Anyone who likes smooth jazz should have this CD in their collection.


What my dad used to play on his 'record box'
One of the last of the great song stylists, Nancy Wilson deserves to be played over, and over and over to get the full effect. For nostalgia's sake, I wanted to hear 'Satin Doll'--and I felt that it wasn't enough. A great voice.


darryl's review...
i wasnt ewven born when these songs cam out, but i remember my mother used to play tell me the truth. this cd is a nice one, the popular song, tell me the truth is on here, the very thought if you and some more songs that i like. the cd is nice, take a listen to the samples. . . .


A great album that emphasizes Wilson's versatility.
A singer who sings some jazz, some pop, some blues, some soul, and some standards from the Great American Songbook, she manages to do everything well and appeal to everyone, a statement proven by the fact that during the sixties, she was second only to the Beatles in total sales at Capitol Records. Nancy Wilson can do it all--and does on this CD from 1963.

With her light, high voice and great feel for tempo and phrasing, she ranges here from an Eartha Kitt-like sound in "Bewitched" to the gorgeous ballad "Never Let me Go" and one of her best songs, the energetic "My Sweet Thing," with its syncopated pop rock sound. Throughout the album, Gerald Wilson, arranger and band leader, shows off her young voice (she is only 26 here) to its best advantage. Though he is leading a big band with unlimited potential for a big sound, he uses the orchestra almost as a quartet--the string section operates almost as a solo instrument, and the woodwind section sounds like a single sax or clarinet--despite its size. The result is that the huge orchestra never competes with Nancy Wilson, and despite its size, it sounds appropriate to a solo voice.

Some of the best tracks here are blues songs. "Sufferin' with the Blues" offers Wilson an opportunity to wail, while the five songs on the bonus tracks (the "Today's Blues" section), featuring Wild Bill Davis on organ as backup, are among the best on the CD. "West Coast Blues," a fast, off-tempo song, is a star turn for Wilson, with unusual phrasing, as she carries words across beats and measures, and fully lets go emotionally. "Tell Me The Truth," a song in which Wilson whispers that she wants the truth about her relationship, became one of her biggest hits. "My Sweet Thing," with its syncopated pop/rock beat, the most unusual song on the album, is one in which Wilson carries the tune and rhythm into pop dimensions.

If you are looking for a CD of great jazz, look at Sarah Vaughan's "Crazy and Mixed Up. " If you are looking for a CD of soul, check out Aretha Franklin's many great albums. But if you are looking for a terrific album which offers a little of many genres--an album in which the vocalist can do it all--then play the samples of Nancy Wilson's "Yesterday's Love Songs" and buy this CD. This is a terrific album by one of the great, versatile singers from the last third of the 20th century. n Mary Whipple
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Nancy Blows Ella and Sarah away!
She may not be able to scat like Ella or sing 4 octaves like Sarah but her phrasing is second to none. This album is again proof of why Nancy is simply the best.


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