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{{redirect|How Glad I Am|the Nancy Wilson album|How Glad I Am (album)}}
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| Name = (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am
| name = (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am
| Cover =
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| Artist = [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]]
| from Album = How Glad I Am
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| type = single
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| Released = 1964
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| artist = [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]]
| Format = [[gramophone record|7"]]
| album = How Glad I Am
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| Recorded = 1964
| B-side = "Never Less Than Yesterday"
| B-side = Never Less Than Yesterday
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| released = 1964
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| Genre = [[Easy listening]]
| Length = 2:39
| recorded = 1964
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| Label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
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| Writer = Jimmy Williams <br> Larry Harrison
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| genre = [[Easy listening]]
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| length = 2:39
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| Last single = "[[Don't Rain on My Parade]]"<br>(1964)
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| label = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| This single = '''(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am'''<br>(1964)
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| writer = Jimmy Williams <br /> Larry Harrison
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| Next single = "I Wanna Be With You"<br>(1964)
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| prev_title = [[Don't Rain on My Parade]]
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| prev_year = 1964
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| next_title = I Wanna Be With You
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"'''(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am'''" is a song written by Jimmy Williams and Larry Harrison.<ref>{{cite web|title=discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Wilson-You-Dont-Know-How-Glad-I-Am-Never-Less-Than-Yesterday/release/3967742|website=discogs.com|year=1964 |accessdate=June 24, 2021}}</ref> In the US, its best-known recorded version is that by [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]], a hit single for her, in the summer of 1964.
"'''(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am'''" is a song written by Jimmy Williams and Larry Harrison. In the USA, its best-known recorded version is that by [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]], a hit single for her, in the summer of 1964. The single went to #11 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]], as well as #2 on the Billboard [[Adult Contemporary music|Pop-Standard Singles]] chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=261}}</ref> Wilson, who had been recording since 1960, was afforded her first [[Top 40]] hit with hit with "<small>...</small>How Glad I Am": <small>(Nancy Wilson quote:)</small>"I went into the studio with the idea of recording a Top 40 kind of hit [with "<small>...</small>How Glad I Am"]. Actually though I didn't sing any differently<small>.....</small>It's the material itself that did it [along with] the arrangement."<ref>http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-Business/Music-Business-1964-08-01.pdf</ref>


==Overview==
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In April 1965 "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" received the [[Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance|Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording]]: Wilson was reportedly surprised by the categorization of "<small>...</small>How Glad I Am" as [[rhythm and blues|R&B]] as she would have classed it as a [[Pop music|pop]] record, <ref>{{cite journal|title=Billboard |volume=77|issue=17|date=April 24, 1965|page=3}}</ref> and the track had not been a major R&B hit peaking at #45 on the ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' R&B chart (the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|''Billboard'' R&B chart]] was dormant throughout 1964).<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=630}}</ref>
Wilson, who had been recording since 1960, was afforded her first pop [[Top 40]] hit with <span style="font-size:50%">...</span>"How Glad I Am":
* <small>(Nancy Wilson quote:)</small>"I went into the studio with the idea of recording a Top 40 kind of hit [with '<span style="font-size:50%">...</span>How Glad I Am']. Actually though I didn't sing any differently<span style="font-size:60%">.....</span>It's the material itself that did it [along with] the arrangement."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-Business/Music-Business-1964-08-01.pdf|title=''Music Business'' : "It Takes More Than Soul"|date=1 August 1964|website=Americanradiohistory.com|accessdate=14 December 2018}}</ref>


The single went to No. 11 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]], as well as No. 2 on the Billboard [[Adult Contemporary music|Pop-Standard Singles]] chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=261}}</ref>
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Nancy Wilson would have one more Top 40 hit subsequent to "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am": "Face It Girl, It's Over", which reached #29 in 1968.


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In April 1965 "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" received the [[Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance|Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording]]: Wilson was surprised by the categorization of "<span style="font-size:50%">...</span>How Glad I Am" as [[rhythm and blues|R&B]] as she would have classifieded it as a [[Pop music|pop]] record,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Coasters Get Their Share: 15 Out of 47 |magazine=Billboard |volume=77 |issue=17 |date=April 24, 1965 |page=3}}</ref> and the track had not been a major R&B hit peaking at No. 45 on the ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' R&B chart (the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|''Billboard'' R&B chart]] was dormant throughout 1964).<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=630}}</ref>
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==Other Recordings==
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*[[Kiki Dee]] recorded "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" in 1964 with an arrangement - by [[Les Reed (songwriter)|Les Reed]] - based on the Nancy Wilson recording: Dee then remade the song as "How Glad I Am" in 1975, with an uptempo bluesy arrangement, and this version – produced by [[Gus Dudgeon]] and credited to the Kiki Dee Band – was issued that spring as the follow-up to "[[I've Got the Music in Me]]", reaching number 33 in the UK and number 74 in the US. The Kiki Dee band version also charted in the Netherlands (number 16) and Flemish Belgium (number 30)


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Wilson would have one additional Top 40 hit after the success of "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am": In 1968, "Face It Girl, It's Over", reached its peak position of 29.
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*In 1980 [[Joyce Cobb]] had a single-release [[funk]] remake of "How Glad I Am": recorded at the Shoe Productions studio in [[Memphis]], this version spent 13 weeks in the ''[[Record World]]'' Singles 101-150 chart rising as high as #101 in September 1980 in which month Cobb's single ranked in the [[Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles]] chart in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' and also in ''Billboard'''s [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]] with respective peaks of #107 and #90.


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==Other recordings==
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*"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" has also been recorded by [[Bonnie Bramlett]], [[Ellen Foley]], [[Maria McKee]], and - as "How Glad I Am" - by [[Fontella Bass]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[the Greyboy Allstars]], [[Brenda Lee]], [[Olivia Newton-John]] and [[Sandie Shaw]].<ref name ="AMG">
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* [[Kiki Dee]] recorded "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" in 1964 with an arrangement - by [[Les Reed (songwriter)|Les Reed]] - based on the Nancy Wilson recording: Dee then remade the song as "How Glad I Am" in 1975, with an uptempo bluesy arrangement, and this version – produced by [[Gus Dudgeon]] and credited to the Kiki Dee Band – was issued that spring as the follow-up to "[[I've Got the Music in Me]]", reaching No. 33 in the UK and No. 74 in the US. The Kiki Dee band version also charted in the Netherlands (No. 16) and Flemish Belgium (No. 30)
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{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3160|pure_url=yes}}|title=AMG|accessdate=January 11, 2010}}</ref>
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* In 1980 [[Joyce Cobb]] had a single-release [[funk]] remake of "How Glad I Am": recorded at the Shoe Productions studio in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], this version spent 13 weeks in the ''[[Record World]]'' Singles 101-150 chart, rising to No. 101 in September 1980 in which month Cobb's single ranked in the [[Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles]] chart in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' and also in ''Billboard'''s [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]] with respective peaks of No. 107 and No. 90.
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* "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" has also been recorded by [[Bonnie Bramlett]], [[Ellen Foley]], [[Maria McKee]], and - as "How Glad I Am" - by [[Fontella Bass]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[the Greyboy Allstars]], [[Brenda Lee]], [[Olivia Newton-John]], [[Sandie Shaw]]<ref name ="AMG">
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{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3160|pure_url=yes}}|title=AMG|accessdate=January 11, 2010}}</ref> and [[Chrissie Hynde]] with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble - "Valve Bone Woe" (2019) .


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Latest revision as of 13:38, 1 July 2023

"How Glad I Am" redirects here. For the Nancy Wilson album, see How Glad I Am (album).
"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am"
Single by Nancy Wilson
from the album How Glad I Am
B-side"Never Less Than Yesterday"
Released1964
Recorded1964
GenreEasy listening
Length2:39
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Williams
Larry Harrison
Nancy Wilson singles chronology
"Don't Rain on My Parade"
(1964) 		"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am"
(1964) 		"I Wanna Be With You"
(1964)

"(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" is a song written by Jimmy Williams and Larry Harrison.[1] In the US, its best-known recorded version is that by Nancy Wilson, a hit single for her, in the summer of 1964.

Übersicht

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Wilson, who had been recording since 1960, was afforded her first pop Top 40 hit with ..."How Glad I Am":

  • (Nancy Wilson quote:)"I went into the studio with the idea of recording a Top 40 kind of hit [with '...How Glad I Am']. Actually though I didn't sing any differently.....It's the material itself that did it [along with] the arrangement."[2]

The single went to No. 11 on the Hot 100, as well as No. 2 on the Billboard Pop-Standard Singles chart.[3]

In April 1965 "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" received the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording: Wilson was surprised by the categorization of "...How Glad I Am" as R&B as she would have classifieded it as a pop record,[4] and the track had not been a major R&B hit peaking at No. 45 on the Cash Box R&B chart (the Billboard R&B chart was dormant throughout 1964).[5]

Wilson would have one additional Top 40 hit after the success of "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am": In 1968, "Face It Girl, It's Over", reached its peak position of 29.

Other recordings

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References

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  1. ^ "discogs.com". discogs.com. 1964. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  2. ^ "Music Business : "It Takes More Than Soul"" (PDF). Americanradiohistory.com. 1 August 1964. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 261.
  4. ^ "Coasters Get Their Share: 15 Out of 47". Billboard. Vol. 77, no. 17. April 24, 1965. p. 3.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 630.
  6. ^ "AMG". Retrieved January 11, 2010.



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