Nancy Wilson - When He Makes Music (Capitol Records 1965)

"When He Makes Music" is a song by Jack Segal and Marvin Fisher. Gentle Is My Love is a 1965 studio album by Nancy Wilson. It spent 24 weeks on the Billboard Top 200, peaking at No. 17, and reached No. 7 on the Hot R&B LPs chart. The album contains a mixture of standards from the Great American Songbook and more recent popular material.
In his AllMusic review, William Ruhlmann says that Gentle Is My Love is "a collection of romantic ballads that Wilson addresses with her characteristic emotionalism and precision. The arrangements are full of lush string parts, and the tempos are taken deliberately." Ruhlmann notes that Wilson covered several songs that were usually associated with men and performed as "soaring, heroic anthems," whereas she turns them into "more intimate, reflective ballads." A 1970 re-issue of the album was entitled Who Can I Turn To.
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 - December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".
In August 2006, Wilson was hospitalized with anemia and potassium deficiency, and was on I.V. sustenance while undergoing a complete battery of tests. She was unable to attend the UNCF Evening of Stars Tribute to Aretha Franklin and had to cancel the engagement. All of her other engagements were on hold pending doctors' reports.
In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered, and reported to be doing well. Later that year, her husband, Wiley Burton, died after suffering from renal cancer. On December 13, 2018, Wilson died after a long illness at her home in Pioneertown, California. She was 81 years old.
I know he's around
When the sky and the ground started ringing
I know that he's near
By the thunder I hear in advance
His words, his words alone are the words
That can start my heart singing
And his is the only music that makes me dance
He'll sleep and he'll rise
In the light of two eyes that adore him
Bore him it might
But he won't leave my sight for a glance
In every way, everyday I need less of myself
I need more him, more him
'Cause his is the only music that makes me dance
Bore him it might
But he won't leave my sight for a glance
In every way, everyday I need less of myself
And I need more him, more him
'Cause his is the only music that makes me dance
Yes, his is the only music that makes me dance

[@williambrownlee8739]

NICE, VERY NICE--- VERY COOL

[@fenemeh]

OMG!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

[@Weesperbuurt]

I like her real jazz recordings better. Not when she became an easy listening “song stylist” (her term). The violins here are overwhelming.

[@eleanorweismiller6792]

Beautiful voice but don't like this style. Agree with comment that her real jazz is better.