How Glad I Am

“How Glad I Am” is a 1964 song by Nancy Wilson, nicknamed ‘The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice’, who was an award-winning American pop and jazz singer having recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards over a career spanning more than five decades. She became one of the biggest selling acts of her time with hits as ‘Guess Who I Saw Today’, ‘Save Your Love for Me’ and this particular gem ‘How Glad I Am’.

Written by Jimmy Williams and Larry Harrison, the single climbed to No. 11 on the Hot 100 in the summer of 1964 and won her the Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording the following spring — a category that surprised Wilson herself, who considered it a pop record. Whatever the label, listen to how she opens the tap: that first “you don’t know how glad I am” starts out conversational and ends somewhere near the ceiling.