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Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues is a 1963 studio album by Nancy Wilson, arranged by Gerald Wilson.[4] It was her highest charting album, entering the Billboard Top 200 on January 25, 1964,[5] and ultimately reaching No. 4. It remained on the chart for 42 weeks.[6] The 1991 CD edition featured a different cover image and added five bonus tracks drawn from other sessions with Gerald Wilson (two from the album How Glad I Am, and three from singles).

Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues
Studio album by Nancy Wilson
Released	December 1963
Recorded	October 8–10, 1963[1]
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	42:05
Label	Capitol
Producer	Tom Morgan
Nancy Wilson chronology
Hollywood – My Way (1963) Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues (1963) Today, Tomorrow, Forever (1964)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	[3]

Track listing

1. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 1:58
2. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 2:51
3. "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 2:21
4. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:02
5. "Sufferin' with the Blues" (Teddy "Cherokee" Conyers, Lloyd Pemberton) – 2:10
6. "Someone to Watch over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:31
7. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:18
8. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 2:29
9. "Send Me Yesterday" (J.H. Smith) – 2:12
10. "All My Tomorrows" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:40
11. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:33
12. "Blue Prelude" (Joe Bishop, Gordon Jenkins) – 2:53

    Bonus tracks not included on the original 1963 release:

13. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (Frank Loesser) – 2:23
14. "Show Goes On" (Bernard Roth) – 2:48 (from How Glad I Am)
15. "West Coast Blues" (Wes Montgomery) – 2:01 (from How Glad I Am)
16. "Tell Me the Truth" (H. Jackson, D. D. Jackson) – 2:34
17. "My Sweet Thing" – 2:21

Personnel

Performance

• Nancy Wilson – vocals
• Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone
• Harold Land – tenor saxophone
• Paul Horn – alto saxophone
• Joe Maini – alto saxophone
• Don Raffell – baritone saxophone
• Al Porcino – trumpet
• Carmell Jones – trumpet
• John Ewing – trombone
• Wild Bill Davis – organ
• Jack Wilson – piano
• Joe Pass – guitar
• Jimmy Bond – double bass
• Kenny Dennis – drums
• Gerald Wilson – arranger, conductor

References

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