Something Wonderful (album)
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This was Nancy Wilson's second album for Capitol Records, recorded in May 1960 and released the same year.
As with her debut album on the label, Like In Love, she was teamed up with Billy May, one of its star arrangers, who had come to prominence through his outstanding work with such singers as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra - a fine accolade for the 23-year old newcomer.
The album spawned one of Wilson's all-time signature songs, Guess Who I Saw Today. Another highlight was What A Little Moonlight Can Do, which, as critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 3CD set, Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best Of Nancy Wilson, was "a song so closely associated with the sublime Billie Holiday (that) few would even have attempted it, let alone brought it off so well, with just the right blend of lightheartedness and sincerity."
In 2003, the UK label EMI Gold re-issued Something Wonderful on a 2-for-1 Compact Disc, coupled with its natural companion, Like In Love.
[edit] Track listing
- Teach Me Tonight
- This Time The Dream's On Me
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Out Of My Life
- I Wish You Love
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- If Dreams Come True
- What A Little Moonlight Can Do
- Great City
- He's My Guy
- Something Happens To Me
- Call It Stormy Monday
- Something Wonderful Happens
