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Hollywood – My Way

album by Nancy Wilson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ5883120 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hollywood – My Way is a studio album by Nancy Wilson issued in July 1963 on Capitol Records.

The album rose to No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Critical reception

Stephen Cook of Allmusic with praise wrote, "Like one of her biggest selling albums, Yesterday's Love Songs/Tomorrow's Blues, Hollywood My Way is filled with strong material, fine arrangements, and more than enough evidence of Nancy Wilson's considerable and elegant vocal talents...this collection of movie songs ranging from 1931's "When Did You Leave Heaven" to 1962's "Days of Wine and Roses" (with Jimmy Jones' stellar arrangements) is one of Wilson's best.

Editorial summary

“Hollywood – My Way” enters the record as album by Nancy Wilson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hollywood, album and Nancy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1931, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hollywood, album and Nancy.
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Why this record matters

“Hollywood – My Way” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hollywood, album and Nancy provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5883120. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1931 and 1962.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hollywood – My Way” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.