WOW !! It's 2021, and I just saw one of her 1960's performances on a rerun of the Ed Sullivan Show. She totally captivated me. Who is this woman and why have I not heard of her over the last half century? Not only beautiful, but without any doubt, one of the most powerful singers I have ever heard !! Pitch perfect intonation, amazing breath control, limitless power and technique, expressive and very very soulful. She has the chops of an opera singer, but with a contralto voice and strength beyond opera singers. Notice that she holds the microphone at chest level, because she doesn't even need a mic. I can hear her voice bouncing off the back of the Ed Sullivan Theater !! Captivating, hypnotic, magnetic, and electrifying !! It doesn't even matter what tune she sings, it's her singing that becomes more alluring than the music itself. And....she later ran a very successful "home remodeling business" and an Emmy-winning event and video production company too. Nancy is truly a Renaissance woman. All this and beauty too.....WOW !!
She was STUNNING. Powerful singer (without it becoming obnoxious - i.e. today's TV endless array of competition shows) and unbelievably beautiful to look upon.
I saw this performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on TV. This was a fantastic performance by a fantastic singer. She sings beautiful Spanish. Viva a la Nancy!!!
I saw Nancy perform live around 1971 in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, at Dinner Key Auditorium, at a home show. Comedian Marty Allen opened for her. I hung around a couple hours to see her 2nd performance also. She was very vivacious.
Before this she sang the headlines on the David Frost weekly political satire show *This Was The Week That Was* (TW3). She has one of the best versions of Malagueña Salerosa ever recorded, from her all Spanish album *This Is the Girl That Is* (it's on TH-cam--she has a live version from a few years later, also on TH-cam).
There was some Xavier Cugat sound thrown in here as well...Her material could have been better chosen...Since Bossa Nova was so great in the 60s and many American musicians were doing it she should have done that...We remember how great Lani Hall sounded singing for Sergio Mendez...
@@gsmoviememories9254 Mixed ancestry. "[Nancy Ames] [Nancy Hamilton Alfaro] was born in Washington, D.C., the granddaughter of Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro (1882-1971), who served as President of Panama from 1931-32"
WOW !! It's 2021, and I just saw one of her 1960's performances on a rerun of the Ed Sullivan Show. She totally captivated me. Who is this woman and why have I not heard of her over the last half century? Not only beautiful, but without any doubt, one of the most powerful singers I have ever heard !! Pitch perfect intonation, amazing
breath control, limitless power and technique, expressive and very very soulful. She has the chops of an opera singer, but with a contralto voice and strength beyond opera singers.
Notice that she holds the microphone at chest level, because she doesn't even need a mic. I can hear her voice bouncing off the back of the Ed Sullivan Theater !! Captivating, hypnotic, magnetic, and electrifying !! It doesn't even matter what tune she sings, it's her singing that becomes more alluring than the music itself.
And....she later ran a very successful "home remodeling business" and an Emmy-winning event and video production company too. Nancy is truly a Renaissance woman. All this and beauty too.....WOW !!
She was STUNNING. Powerful singer (without it becoming obnoxious - i.e. today's TV endless array of competition shows) and unbelievably beautiful to look upon.
She could have sung a James Bond title song! And simultaneously been a Bond girl!!!
I saw this performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on TV. This was a fantastic performance by a fantastic singer. She sings beautiful Spanish. Viva a la Nancy!!!
I saw Nancy perform live around 1971 in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, at Dinner Key Auditorium, at a home show. Comedian Marty Allen opened for her. I hung around a couple hours to see her 2nd performance also. She was very vivacious.
EXCEPTIONAL TALENT.
Such beautiful voice!
Wow...such a wonderful performance...
Que voz INCREDIBLE 🎉❗
Great singer I've never heard about even though I'm a baby boomer.
Before this she sang the headlines on the David Frost weekly political satire show *This Was The Week That Was* (TW3). She has one of the best versions of Malagueña Salerosa ever recorded, from her all Spanish album *This Is the Girl That Is* (it's on TH-cam--she has a live version from a few years later, also on TH-cam).
Just watched this on Decades on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Beautiful in every way.
If I could travel in time...I'd go back to this place in time and marry this goddess!!!
beautiful
que hermosa voz y añorado recuerdo de mi niñes,
She's hypnotic .
Wonderful
I'm not a lesbian but I would ask her to marry me if I were one. And she would laugh and say no, of course. She's a goddess!! 😍
Lindisima cancipn de esta panameña
Her grandfather was the first President of Panama.
The first president of Panama was Manuel Amador Guerrero. Her grandfather was Ricardo Alfaro, 7th president of Panama.
@@yosoyyo1389 Thanks for the correction!
@@yosoyyo1389Correct!
Bonita voz y excelente interpretación, y muy guapa.
If there's a perfect woman...(there isn't) I'd still say she is it!!! I'd place her so high on a pedestal that I'd lose her...
I so wish she would have sung some songs in Brazilian Portuguese!!!
There was some Xavier Cugat sound thrown in here as well...Her material could have been better chosen...Since Bossa Nova was so great in the 60s and many American musicians were doing it she should have done that...We remember how great Lani Hall sounded singing for Sergio Mendez...
James Quall sent me here.
Ok... I got it... I'm going to retrieve a hair sample then extract her DNA and clone her, yes! That's the answer!!!
Yo no sabia que esta mujer es panameña.
@Clark Destry Did you watch the entire video?
@Clark Destry I am only going by what the woman said.
Sullivan was saying "from Panama and Washington". But the question is ethnicity. I think mixed.
@@gsmoviememories9254 Mixed ancestry. "[Nancy Ames] [Nancy Hamilton Alfaro] was born in Washington, D.C., the granddaughter of Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro (1882-1971), who served as President of Panama from 1931-32"
Nieta de Ricardo Alfaro
Better than the Beatle's version , but then again , what version isn't ?
I agree ❤❤❤❤!