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Something Wonderful (Nancy Wilson album)

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Released
  
1960

Artist
  
Nancy Wilson

Producer
  
Dave Cavanaugh

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
29:57

Release date
  
1960

Label
  
Capitol Jazz

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Recorded
  
1960 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Something Wonderful (1960)
  
The Swingin's Mutual! (1961)

Similar
  
Nancy Wilson albums, Jazz albums

Something Wonderful was the second album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.

Contents

As with her debut album on the label, Like in Love, she was teamed up with Billy May, one of its star arrangers, who had come to prominence through his outstanding work with such singers as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

The album spawned one of Wilson's all-time signature songs, "Guess Who I Saw Today". Another highlight was "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which was, as critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 three-CD set Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson, "a song so closely associated with the sublime Billie Holiday (that) few would even have attempted it, let alone brought it off so well, with just the right blend of lightheartedness and sincerity."

In 2003, the UK label EMI Gold re-issued Something Wonderful on a 2-for-1 CD, coupled with its natural companion, Like in Love.

Nancy wilson something wonderful happens 1960


Track listing

  1. "Teach Me Tonight" (Gene de Paul, Sammy Cahn) – 2:51
  2. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen) – 2:19
  3. "I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph Allen McCarthy) – 2:40
  4. "I Wish You Love" (Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet) – 2:00
  5. "Guess Who I Saw Today" (Murray Grand, Elisse Boyd) – 3:27
  6. "If Dreams Come True" (Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman) – 1:49
  7. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:27
  8. "The Great City" (Curtis Lewis) – 2:43
  9. "He's My Guy" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 2:28
  10. "Something Happens to Me" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 1:58
  11. "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (T-Bone Walker) – 2:28
  12. "Something Wonderful Happens" (Del Guerico, Gamse, Thorn) – 2:47

Performance

  • Nancy Wilson – vocals
  • Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
  • Billy May – arranger, conductor
  • Pete Candoli, Frank Beach, Conrad Gozzo - trumpet
  • George Roberts, Si Zentner - trombone
  • Justin Gordon - flute
  • Emil Richards - vibraphone
  • Milt Raskin - piano & celeste
  • Jack Marshall - guitar
  • Joe Comfort - bass
  • Shelly Manne - drums
  • Songs

    1Teach Me Tonight2:52
    2This Time the Dream's on Me2:20
    3I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life2:40

    References

    Something Wonderful (Nancy Wilson album) Wikipedia


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