Nancy Wilson - Satin Doll

[geetarfr34k]

no autotune and still sounds amazing....much better than loads of autotuned stuff these days

[Cheeky937]

This is the first doing I learned to play on the piano when I was little...crazy!!

[Crabsdonthum]

Ohhhh...what a babe!!! Love her sassy :)

[jovanjohnson216]

Is it just me or does a young nancy look kinda like Beyonce?!? lol

[evidenceunseen1]

A SONGTRESS and STYLIST of song "EXTRAORDINAIR" --- Ms. FANCY will ALWAYS rank up there with THE VERY BEST--- (ELLA, DINAH AND BILLY) ---- HER airy, clear, concise melodic fluidity is incomparable. ONE of KIND. A GENUINE and TRUE ARTIST of her craft. PURE and NATURAL--- a SOUL that's been blessed with the gift TO SING with THE ANGELS and then come to earth and touch the HEARTS of ALL. May the MOST HIGH continue keep you in his "CHOURUS of the HEAVENS"--- ALL PRAISES!!!!

[NanetteSings]

some of these pictures remind me of beyonce...

[abu309]

When everyone was going ga ga over The Beatles, I was obssessed with Nancy!

[Tjmama5]

Saw Ms. Wilson in NYC last week and it was indeed awesome, she's still got the chops. However, she did announce that after she finished her next show in Ohio this fall would be her last that she was retiring. I came from Georgia to see her and it was the best money spent. It was a wonderful show, I am so glad that I went.

[crazyoldbastard]

what a beautiful voice, what a beautiful lady, Satin Doll!!

[GreekBassSlayer21]

Love the superficial quiality! Nice uploading this dude!

[imusfan48]

Classy Lady! Great rendition, she is going to be at B.B. King's in NYC, the middle of June this year (Sat. Night), Gonna try to make it to the 'Big Apple' and see her.

[MsJollycholly]

protax - thanks for this gem! My mother was a vocalist and Miss Wilson were her idol along with Carmen Mcrae. As a kid, I watched and listened to her practice this and 'The Grass is Greener' for hours. I learned from her (MOM), it was the first 'jazz waltz'. LOVE this and thanks again! Switcherooney...........

[normronlop]

((A W E S O M E ))

[videomania100]

omg - there is an L.A. jazz band that does this song fused with neil young's cinnamon girl. amazing arrangement! ck it out search cinnamon doll jazz

i think you will dig it.

[Killersnipe96]

Im playing this song on saxophone!!

[babylana70]

Gotta love the 60s

[Zipemova1]

What a great collection of songs and singers!!!!!

[SGPlayer0008]

I've been a Nancy Wilson fan since 1964 when I first heard her. What a voice. Damn, I just dated myself. It's really cool to see these old songs popping up on Youtube.

[Athenandhermusic]

My first standard! ^_^

[blackmaestro]

@edie19561 Thanks! I am a great Gershwin fan-was watching a documentary about him on PBS recently. My all time favorite Gershwin work is his opera "Porgy & Bess". Where would the American Music be without George & Ira's contributions to the American Songbook. It was so wonderful that he wanted to capture the rhythms & character of African American like in his music. I will definitely be doing more research on the Gershwins in my Advanced Music History course next semester-I love Ellington too!

[MattHeaven]

Great Recording.... performed well, mixed well.... woo hoo

[Sherylaglass]

Great singers - back in the day when if someone asked you your occupation you could say; "I'M A VOCALIST! "

[Meaty247]

I Love Nancy she is my favorite jazz singer of all times!!!! Simply the best.....and truly blessed!!!!

[Jazsngr]

One of my favorite female vocalists of all times. I just love her.

[zackyko]

these legendary women of such powerful and so just lovely beautiful style...can they ever be replaced? Not so!!! Miss them so much!!!!

[paulostroff99]

awesome!  TY.

[paulostroff99]

awesome!  TY

[ladyjosephinelover]

she;s so beautiful!

[nelumwicks]

this song of Nancy Wilson's is fantabulous and so is Ella Fitzgerald's version. Love to listen to Nancy's bossa nova songs if any, like desifinado, the girl from iponema. could soneone oblige. Thanks so much for sharing. Nelum

Sri lanka.

[wearbelle]

she"s really great!........love her version on Satin Doll song

[gwirgalon]

Yo! a great singer, that's for sure!

[berrygoodstuff]

Love love love her version of this song - thank you for posting and being another fan of hers

[berrygoodstuff]

Love love love this song and her version!

[valambiguous]

Love the Class!!!

[StevenSimmonss]

mp3iiffy is the best site to get this mp3. google mp3iiffy.

[makitfunkee]

Man she is one gorgeous woman. It's great to hear the tune complete with vocals--so typically it's just done by the groups to play solos.

[JAZZOLOGIST1]

The money makers don't want to listen, The real music makers are stifled by the sound of ringing tills. There is such a need for a respect for the deeper needs of sophisticated people who love GOOD muic like this. Shame on the childish and greedy music world.

[JazzWithoutANet]

The timeless Nancy Wilson.

It's almost prophetic how at :40 she looks like Beyonce.

[jazzywork]

she's great!.... i love the way she sang this song, "satin doll"

[Getzwho]

One only comment on this great Ellington number doen marvellously by Nancy Wilson. Stop blethering about rap and hip hop and listen to THIS

[americangalbasseyfan]

@Getzwho Well said.

[Getzwho]

Tks americangalbasseyfan. You must listen to Esperanza Spalding. get her on 'At the White House' she sings' Overjoyed' and with midnight show Letterman 'Precious' You'll be an instant fan. Lemmeknow?

[Arthro92]

i agree with all of your comments. the quality has REALLY gone down. but if we stop buying their music, then they'll stop making these CD's.

[Cephalopopo]

There are nowadays some great Hip Hop groups that link jazz to rhymes. You may check out the sound providers or Hocus Pocus!!

[protaxcuts]

While groups like the sound providers or Hocus Pocus and some others do take some parts from Jazz songs, all they do is loop a very small part of the song and then they "rap" over it which I think most people here are turned off by (including myself).

[Cephalopopo]

Thats not entirely true, as there are indeed some of their songs just looped and a bit edited. But there are many songs, where they got real Jazz-Bands playing, less the sound providers, but more Hocus Pocus. Also "The Roots" play their instruments on their own at concerts

[cocomaire]

@protaxcuts

I grew up around jazz, and I love it, but I also like real hip hop. I think the two are similar in the improvisation aspect. Rapping came about as spontaneous poetry. Now the media and popular demand have created an ugly monster - a caricature really. Hip hop is all about poetry and production. There is a guy (Soweto Kinch) who plays bebop on sax and also raps. He was mentored by Wynton Marsalis.

[hlmynms]

@protaxcuts I do like some words they use, some have poetry in it and not just words..just have to dig haha. very true though I sometimes can't stand to listen to them over the real song not their impression.

[saron380]

@protaxcuts Eh, I don't mind it much it's ight with meh

then again I like loadsa stuff

[AllNatural1625]

@protaxcuts It's crazy, but I love Hip-Hop. I really can't understand someone not liking it. I realize most of the commercial stuff that gets played on the radio is mostly anyone hears. I love all music. For example, this type pf jazz, to classical, to almost any genre, and Hip-Hop is the reason for that. Through looking for samples to make beats, and researching the culture it's broadened my horizons to different music that I love, and wouldn't have been into initially.

[SoulbassJr]

its being called sampling.its an ART !!!

[Scathe8000]

@protaxcuts uh, wrong

[lralbrecht]

@protaxcuts better examples are tribe called quest and organic flow... less sampling and more "jazz influenced" compositions

[MSAZgreen]

@Cephalopopo Thank you for the musical recommendations : )

[RJTUBE0001]

It sure makes day dreaming a lot of fun

[nathdeunuwara]

I could listen to this song over and over again. So classy - Nelum - Sri Lanka

[BlogShag]

Jeeez, what a talent. They don't make them like this any more. Harry Connick Jr. doesn't move me, but this woman does.

[nancyl2]

What chills that you get when you remember those golden days of sounds from the "Big band" and Nancy Wilson's satiny voice. Love her soooo much. Peace and Love to your all. : -)

[nathdeunuwara]

Nelum-Sri Lanka - fabulous - thanks so much

[LoveTruth86]

Amazing...this has to be the best rendition of this song. It brings back so many memories. Effortless class...

[Sybenett]

Lord, she was some looker and now some damm.

Sy-

[VTERRELL]

You are"The Satin Doll" all by yourself Nancy.

[mumbleora]

Always classy and still sexy!!!

[reflections209]

to chinadoll from poisonous

[ann1983iv]

Thanks for the memories!

[Hunterunc]

Thanks for these beautiful images of Miss Nancy, one of the great enduring musical stylists we've ever had.

[WritingJenny73070]

Gorgeous. 

Simply gorgeous.

[djmcc1981]

Smoooooooth. Makes me want to don a smart suit, light a cigar and just take a stroll, out 'cattin'!

[funkanova365247]

No one can do it like Nancy!

[blackmaestro]

I'm not sure which Kanye West video is heralding Mr. West as the greatest talent in musical history. A good talent yes, but the greatest definitely not. As a musician myself I can say that pressing two buttons on a "beat machine" does not make you a great musical talent. It may make you very rich because the level of musiceducation of the masses is at an all time low. Its an ignorant statement, especially when we have people like Nancy Wilson, Kanye is no Bach or Mozart make no mistake about it.

[edie19591]

@blackmaestro Beautifully said. I love R&B, Soul, Jazz, - Heck my Mom got the Inkspots to give her an autograph on a diner receipt in 1957 - I was raised on beautiful music of all genre's. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a true testament to the gift of "arrangement" - so take a listen and know that in those days it wasn't technology that made the music it was people and instruments - giving their heart and soul to the process - not pushing a button! As you well know. Kudos!

[dieudonneMC]

@blackmaestro are you serious someone or he thinks he is one of the greatest???? Remedy, have a show, shove him out on stage with instruments - not a computer and tell him to play! Simple. A real musician can pick one up and just belt out tunes, no problem.

[unclegusyo]

@blackmaestro eh come back and run your mouth when you can flip a sample like Dilla. Ignorance and snobbery at its peak...

[jrydland]

@blackmaestro I listen to a lot of hip hop, rock and soul, and I do not actually like Kanye West. But his talent (which you state is pressing two buttons on a "beat machine" is far beyond that, producers like him sit weeks in the studio trying to improve just one song. So if you're a musician I think you should already know that. I see this is 2 years ago but still I don't feel West deserved that.

[kimberlydpo87]

Man Nancy has always shown so much style and class in every area of career.

[blackmaestro]

If you love Nancy check out Lush Life 1967, all the old nancy fans know! The orchestrations are fabulous. This is the vintage Nancy. Listen to Lush Life, When the World was Young, and my all time fav-Midnight Sun. The whole disc is great-love Nancy she is the master of phrasing!

[Sybenett]

Do you know that on the Kanye West section of YouTube there are people responding and making statements to the effect that Kanye West is the greatest talent in musicial history???

Just wanted everyone to know, (go check it out) and burst out laughing, while we pull out our selections from our collections of the incomparable Ms. Nancy Wilson.

Sy-

[lorenzo129]

hip hop crap has ruined popular music. i think it really killed true rock and roll.

[BlogShag]

I was thinking the same thing. It's because of hip hop and rap, that record companies don't nurture true singers like this anymore. And I guess what I'm getting at is they don't even seem to nurture great talents like Elton John anymore

Nowadays all we get is whore-alikes and lip syncers and people who gyrate their crotch and roll around on stage

[Blackmace]

lol, so funny and yet so sad because it's so true. nowadays you just have to shake your ass and you get a record deal

[darrren12000]

it really did! it certainly killed r&b.  and pop died later.

[BlogShag]

@lorenzo129 what you say is so true, and it's something I recognized years ago. Hip Hop ruined rock and roll and further made pop music jazz a separate category of music.

[InfiniteMusic]

Enormously talented and beautiful.

They just don't make 'em like Nancy anymore! (-:

[hinata750]

@InfiniteMusic u mean crusty like most girls in the 50s and 60s? lol

[capitancrook]

What a beautiful voice and girl,ya no las fabrican asi

[shaspassren]

i am 16 years old and i love her music SO MUCH

I was so close to seeing her in concert but long story

[963821]

what album is this from? great chart, great band, great vocal

[protaxcuts]

Its from the box set "Nancy Wilson: Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson" on Disk #2

you can find it on Amazon.

[GusDNvincible]

Classic!