10 Nancy Wilson Videos

What I remember most about Nancy Wilson were her hands. Backstage at BB King's, after a performance in New York in 2010, we talked a few weeks after I had interviewed her by phone for the Wall Street Journal (go here). Her fingers were long and graceful and perfect. When I remarked how beautiful they were, she said coolly, in classic Nancy fashion, her mouth turning into a slight grin: "Oh yeah, you like them, eh?" [Photo above of Nancy Wilson; note her hands]

To read my JazzWax interview, go here.

Yesterday I was thinking about Miss Nancy, who died in 2018, after a video popped up on YouTube. So for today's post, I set out to choose only relatively newly posted videos of her but I added others that were simply too good to leave out:

Here's This Dream...

Here's For Once in My Life...

Here's I'm Beginning to See the Light and The Music That Makes Me Dance...

Here's (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am...

Here's Ten Years of Tears...

Here's Can't Take My Eyes Off of You...

Here's The Folks Who Live on a Hill...

Here's I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him...

Here's Something Happens to Me and As You Desire Me...

And here's Face It, Girl, It's Over. As Nancy told me during my interview, she was married to drummer Kenny Dennis at the time and pregnant with Kacy...

Bonus: Here are two versions of Satin Doll, roughly 10 years apart...

Here's Nancy in 1964...

And here's Nancy in 1985...