Like in Love

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Like in Love
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1960
RecordedDecember 5, 7–8, 1959[1]
VenueLos Angeles
StudioCapitol (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length25:53
LabelCapitol
ProducerDave 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[edit]

  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[edit]

Performance[edit]

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[edit]

  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.