Gentle Is My Love

Gentle Is My Love
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1965
RecordedJanuary 1965
VenueLos Angeles
GenreVocal jazz
Length30:52
LabelCapitol
ProducerDavid Cavanaugh
Nancy Wilson chronology
Today – My Way
(1965)
Gentle Is My Love
(1965)
From Broadway with Love
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

Gentle Is My Love is a 1965 studio album by Nancy Wilson. It spent 24 weeks on the Billboard Top 200, peaking at No. 17, and reached No. 7 on the Hot R&B LPs chart. The album contains a mixture of standards from the Great American Songbook and more recent popular material.

In his AllMusic review, William Ruhlmann says that Gentle Is My Love is "a collection of romantic ballads that Wilson addresses with her characteristic emotionalism and precision. The arrangements are full of lush string parts, and the tempos are taken deliberately." Ruhlmann notes that Wilson covered several songs that were usually associated with men and performed as "soaring, heroic anthems," whereas she turns them into "more intimate, reflective ballads."

A 1970 re-issue of the album was entitled Who Can I Turn To.