Trinie dalton biography of nancy wilson

Home » Jazz Musicians » Nancy Wilson. Yet, stylistically speaking, she is worlds away from these rhythm rocking contemporaries. At 15, after appearing at a talent show in Columbus, Ohio, Nancy was given her own twice-a-week television show, Skyline Melodies. She worked at the Carolina Club on Prom Night and six months later with the house band.

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When Nancy Wilson arrived in New York City in , she knew what she wanted: to launch a national singing career with John Levy as her manager and Capitol as her record label. She got what she wanted and the rest, as they say, is history. I signed her immediately. Both albums came out in and are part of an extraordinary output of 37 original albums total in her 20 years with the label.

After years with Capitol, during many of which she was second in sales only to the Beatles, surpassing even Sinatra, Peggy Lee, the Beach Boys and early idol Nat King Cole, the business had changed and Nancy felt a new label might bring about a fresh start. So she moved to Columbia, where, despite her usual high aesthetic standards, she found it impossible to compete, sales-wise, with increasingly teen-oriented acts.

One of the more interesting albums from her later period came about in , when singer Barry Manilow was given a sheath full of lyrics written by the late Johnny Mercer which the great songwriter had never put to music. Manilow added melodies and chose Nancy to sing the resultant songs. Not only did she know the music, but she knew the artists personally.

Her first profile for this program was the 75th birthday tribute to Charlie Parker. In the late s, Nancy teamed up with MCG Jazz , a non-profit, independent, specialty record label, to record her only Christmas album, A Nancy Wilson Christmas, released for the holiday season. Nancy gave the world of music anther gift on August 25, , R.