title: A Lady with a Song
text: # A Lady with a Song
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  A Lady with a Song is a studio album by American jazz singer Nancy Wilson released by Columbia Records in 1990. The album reached No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.
  
  ## Overview
  
  Philip Bailey along with Wanda Vaughn and Jeanette Hawes of the Emotions appear on the album.
  
  ## Reception
  
  William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "The arrangements are full of electronic keyboard washes, popping basslines, and soulful female backup vocals with the occasional piercing saxophone part, all in support of (and at times overwhelming) Wilson's smoky alto vocals... But the quality of the songwriting lets Wilson down, and, anyway, the approach is not natural to her. She is jazzier and classier than this kind of thing, and while she made a valiant attempt to meet the R&B charts more than halfway, she is not heard at her best here".
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart (1990) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | US Top Contemporary Jazz Albums (Billboard) | 8 |
  | US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) | 68 |
  