“Funnier Than Funny” taken from the album “Gentle Is My Love” on (Capitol T 2351) August 1965
Nancy Wilson: Sultry Ballads of Love | Being the marvellously-voiced and provocatively-feminine woman that she is, it is no wonder that Nancy Wilson is the singer songwriters dream about. And ballad writers in particular. For the sensational Miss Nancy intuitively sparks a very special kind of excitement when she sings about love.
Listen to what she does here. To these rich, romantic melodies and moods she brings a sultry excitement that kindles each eloquent line into her own unforgettable statement of love.
Of course Nancy Wilson has sung ballads before. But never before has she devoted an entire album to such romantic tempos with sweeping accompaniments and deft solo voicings. The arrangements are by Sid Feller, and his strings, with touches of brass and reeds, and easy but ever-present rhythm, make each selection a high point in the art of ballad backing.
No surprise then, that given this memorable blending of the singer, the song and the orchestra, the listener emerges, each time, the winner.
Nancy Wilson: Sultry Ballads of Love
Feeling blue? Prepare yourself to be shattered by Nancy’s sensitive reading of WHO CAN I TURN TO, a masterful study in desolation. On the sunny side, you’ll find yourself delighting in the subtlety of FUNNIER THAN FUNNY, a song that’s all aglow with Nancy’s vivid interpretation in front of a swirling string backdrop.
And you’re in for a spell of enchantment with FOR MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE wherein Nancy herself appears, to paraphrase the lyric, in all her splendour — warmly spreading her mystic vocal charms over the haunting melody.
She ushers in dream time with two very familiar love songs done more slowly and more meaningfully than ever before — AT LONG LAST LOVE and MORE — with the latter becoming a poetic classic.
To close this superb album, Nancy has chosen the very dramatic WHEN HE MAKES MUSIC. A fitting choice indeed, for the tune’s lyric captures the feeling Nancy’s incomparable performances here bestir in songwriter and listener alike — ” . . . anytime she breathes a sigh, a symphony begins.”
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