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Like in Love
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1960
RecordedDecember 5, 7–8, 1959 [1]
VenueLos Angeles
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz
Length25:53
Label Capitol
Producer Dave Cavanaugh, Tom "Tippy" Morgan
Nancy Wilson chronology
Like in Love
(1960)
Something Wonderful
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz [3]

Like in Love! is the debut album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in April 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.

Track listing

  1. " On the Street Where You Live" ( Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 1:42
  2. "Night Mist" ( Ahmad Jamal) – 2:34
  3. "You Leave Me Breathless" ( Ralph Freed, Frederick Hollander) – 2:27
  4. " The More I See You" ( Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:11
  5. " I Want to Be Loved" ( Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Billy Rose) – 2:19 [4]
  6. " Almost Like Being in Love" (Lerner, Loewe) – 1:46
  7. " People Will Say We're in Love" ( Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 1:57
  8. " Passion Flower" ( Billy Strayhorn) – 2:23
  9. " Sometimes I'm Happy" ( Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 1:46
  10. " Fly Me to the Moon" ( Bart Howard) – 2:52
  11. " All of You" ( Cole Porter) – 1:49
  12. "If It's the Last Thing I Do" ( Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 2:07

Personnel

Performance

From The Music of Billy May: A Discography (Greenwood Press, 1998). [1]

  • Nancy Wilson – vocals
  • Willie Smithalto saxophone
  • Benny Carter – alto saxophone (1–2, 4–6, 8–9, 11–12)
  • Jules Jacob – saxophone (3–5, 7, 10–12)
  • Charles Gentry – saxophone (3–5, 7, 10–12)
  • William Ulyate – saxophone (1–2, 4–6, 8–9, 11–12)
  • Jerome Kasper – saxophone (1–2, 6, 8–9)
  • Fred Falensby – saxophone (1–2, 6, 8–9)
  • Milt Bernhart – trombone (1–2, 4–6, 8–9, 11–12)
  • Tommy Pederson – trombone (3, 7, 10)
  • Milt Raskin – piano
  • Jack Marshall – guitar (1–3, 6–10)
  • Bob Gibbons – guitar (4–5, 11–12)
  • Myer Rubin – double bass (1–2, 4–6, 8–9, 11–12)
  • Joe Mondragon – double bass (3, 7, 10)
  • Irving Cottler – drums (1–3, 6–10)
  • Stan Levey – drums (4–5, 11–12)
  • Emil Richards – drums (3, 7, 10)
  • Billy May – arranger, conductor

References

  1. ^ a b Mirtle, Jack (1998). The Music of Billy May: A Discography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN  0313307393.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2004). "Nancy Wilson". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (Rev Upd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 941. ISBN  1852271833.
  4. ^ Credits and sleeve notes by Devra Hall to 2007 Capitol compilation The Very Best of Nancy Wilson – The Capitol Recordings 1960–1976.