Nancy Wilson - Yesterdays Love Songs, Todays Blues '1963 [1991]

Tracks list

Originally released in December of 1963, Yesterdays Love Songs/Todays Blues was
the eighth in a long series of albums Nancy Wilson was to make for Capitol
Records over a period of 20 years. During that time, she became one of the
labels most artistically and commercially successful artists. The album was also
made during the time when major recording companies were turning out sessions
featuring black female singers with a gospel and/or blues background, singing
standards and pop hits backed by a large orchestra, usually with strings.
Columbia Records had Aretha Franklin, Everest used Gloria Lynne, and Capitol,
Nancy Wilson. Here, teamed with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra and his
arrangements, Wilson wends her way through 17 standards and traditional pop
songs with a good balance between ballads and up-tempo numbers. Wilsons
aggregation is loaded with many of the days top West Coast players. Trumpeters
Al Porcino and Carmell Jones are especially prominent, with Jones soloing on The
Song Is You. Harold Lands tenor provides the backdrop for Satin Doll. On the
last four tracks, Wilson is accompanied by just a rhythm section featuring Wild
Bill Davis on organ and Joe Pass on guitar. Wilson and Davis combine to do a
swinging R&B-tinged West Coast Blues and My Sweet Thing, the albums highlights.
In between these two cuts is the cloying Tell Me the Truth, originally issued on
a 45 EP and aimed at the female teenaged market of the time.


Tracks:

01. The Song Is You (Kern-Hammerstein) - 2:01
02. The Very Thought of You (Noble) - 2:54
03. Satin Doll (Ellington-Mercer-Strayhorn) - 2:24
04. Bewitched (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:06
05. Sufferin with the Blues (Conyers-Pemberton) - 2:13
06. Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin) - 2:35
07. The Best Is Yet to Come (Coleman-Leigh) - 2:23
08. Never Let Me Go (Livingston-Evans) - 2:31
09. Send Me Yesterday (Smith) - 2:16
10. All My Tomorrows (Cahn-Van Heusen) - 2:45
11. Please Send Me Someone to Love (Mayfield) - 2:36
12. Blue Prelude (Jenkins-Bishop) - 2:57
13. What Are You Doing New Years Eve (Loesser-Whiting) - 2:26
14. The Show Goes On (Roth) - 2:52
15. West Coast Blues (Montgomery-Burland) - 2:04
16. Tell Me the Truth (Jackson-Jackson) - 2:34
17. My Sweet Thing (Wilson-Wilson-Edwards) - 2:29

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