Ray Charles / ...Dedicated To You (US, ABC-Paramount, ABC-355) <January 1961>

Ray Charles / ...Dedicated To You (US, ABC-Paramount, ABC-355) <January 1961>　
Recorded　August 23, 1960

(Side 1) ABC 355-A Bell Sound
(Side 2) ABC-355-B-1 Bell Sound

Betty Carter – vocals, performer
Ray Charles – piano, keyboards, vocals
Marty Paich - arrangements, conductor

曲名に女性の名前のついているものばかり集めた作品です。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrAyULKCd0

"Nancy"がこんな歌詞とは知りませんでした。Wikiに書かれているエピソードもイイ感じ。

In 1979, I was working with songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen on a TV special with Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope that was never produced. Jimmy told me that one day (circa 1942) he and his lyricist Johnny Burke were working at 20th Century-Fox composing for a film. While Burke was out of their writer's bungalow, Phil Silvers, the comedian, a friend to both, entered and suggested to Jimmy that they write a song for Johnny's wife, Bessie, who was soon to celebrate a birthday. Silvers provided the lyrics, later revised by Van Heusen and Burke. At the party they sang "Bessie... with the laughing face." It was such a hit that they used it at other female birthday events. When they sang it as "Nancy... with the laughing face" at little Nancy Sinatra's birthday party, Frank broke down and cried, thinking it had been written especially for his daughter; the trio wisely didn't correct him. Jimmy assigned his royalties to Nancy after Frank recorded it for Columbia in 1944.

If I don't see her each day, I miss her
Gee what a thrill, each time I kiss her
Believe me, I've got a case
On nancy, with the laughing face

She takes the winter and makes it summer
And summer could take some lessons from her
Picture a tomboy in lace
That's nancy with the laughing face

Have you ever heard mission bells ringing
Well she'll give you the very same glow
When she speaks you would think it was singing
Just hear her say hello

I swear to goodness, you can't resist her
Sorry for you, she has no sister
No angel could replace
Nancy, with the laughing face

レイ・チャールズも悪くないですが、Nancyはやはり本家のシナトラ、あとコルトレーンがイイですね。