Nancy (With the Laughing Face)

Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
Artista	Frank Sinatra
Autore/i	Jimmy Van Heusen Phil Silvers
Genere	Ballad
Data	1942
Etichetta	Columbia Records

Nancy (with the Laughing Face) è un brano musicale composto nel 1942 da Jimmy Van Heusen, con testo di Phil Silvers, intitolato, originariamente, Bessie (With The Laughing Face).[1] Fu inciso da Frank Sinatra nel 1944. Negli anni è stato reinterpretato da numerosi artisti, tra i quali Tony Bennett, John Coltrane e Ray Charles.

Il brano

Esecuzioni notevoli

• Pharoah Sanders, William Henderson, Stafford James, Eccleston W. Wainwright - Welcome to Love (1991)
• Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Percy Heath, Connie Kay - Know What I Mean? (1961)
• Karrin Allyson - Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (2001)
• Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank (1992)
• Corry Brokken - Voor Nancy (1971)
• Ray Charles - Dedicated To You (1961)
• John Coltrane - Ballads (1962)
• Kurt Elling - Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman (2009)[2]
• The Fleetwoods - Softly (1961)
• The Four Freshmen - Voices in Standards (1996), Four Freshmen And Five Saxes/The Four Freshmen and Five Guitars (1998)
• Grant Green - The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (1962)
• The Johnny Mann Singers - The Songs of Sinatra (1962)
• Flip Phillips - Phillips Head (1975)
• Frank Sinatra - Sinatra's Sinatra (1963)
• Ben Webster - The Warm Moods (1961)
• Paul Desmond - The Paul Desmond Quartet - Live (1975)
• Oscar Peterson - Nigerian Marketplace (1981)
• Mark Tremonti - Mark Tremonti sings Sinatra (2022)

Note

1. Gilliland, John., Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #14 - All Tracks UNT Digital Library, su digital.library.unt.edu, 197X. URL consultato il 26 gennaio 2021.
2. Kurt Elling - Nancy With The Laughing Face, su youtube.com, YouTube, 22 novembre 2010. URL consultato il 26 gennaio 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale il 29 gennaio 2021).

Collegamenti esterni

• Nancy with a Laughing Face-Story of the composing byJimmy Van Heusen, su YouTube, 11 agosto 2008.
• (EN) Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Nancy, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
• (EN) Nancy, su SecondHandSongs.