Something Wonderful | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Nancy Wilson |
Cover: | somnan.jpg |
Released: | October 1960 |
Recorded: | May 1960[1] |
Studio: | Capitol (Hollywood) |
Genre: | Vocal jazz |
Length: | 29:57 |
Label: | Capitol |
Producer: | Dave Cavanaugh, Tom “Tippy” Morgan |
Prev Title: | Like in Love |
Prev Year: | 1959 |
Next Title: | The Swingin's Mutual! |
Next Year: | 1961 |
Something Wonderful was the second album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in October 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.
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, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
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 was, as critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 three-CD set Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson, "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 CD, coupled with its natural companion, Like in Love.