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Interview: Nancy Wilson (Part 1)

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Marc Myers
Apr 12, 2010
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Nancy Wilson is the last great female song stylist of the 1950s and the first American female pop-soul singer of the 1960s. Though she began by performing locally in her hometown in the 1950s, her Capitol career started at the tail end of 1959, just as one era was ending and another was beginning. Throughout the 1960s, Nancy was known for brassy updates…

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