Can't Take My Eyes Off You (album)

{{short description|1970 album by Nancy Wilson}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Can't Take My Eyes Off You

| type = studio

| artist = Nancy Wilson

| cover = Wilson_Can't_Take_My_Eyes_Off_You_Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1970{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1970/Billboard%201970-03-07.pdf#page=60 |magazine=Billboard |date=1970-03-07 |access-date=2018-12-04}}

| recorded = 1970{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jazzdiscography00lord|title=The jazz discography|volume=25|last=Lord|first=Tom|date=1992 |isbn=1881993000|location=West Vancouver, B.C., Canada|oclc=30547554|url-access=registration}}

| venue = Los Angeles

| studio =

| genre = Vocal jazz

| length = 30:00

| label = Capitol

| producer = David Cavanaugh

| prev_title = Hurt So Bad

| prev_year = 1969

| next_title = Now I'm a Woman

| next_year = 1970

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0002485958|first=Al |last=Campbell}}

| rev2 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|chapter= Nancy Wilson |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz|edition=Rev Upd|year=2004|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=1852271833| page=941}}

}}

Can't Take My Eyes Off You is a studio album by Nancy Wilson, released on Capitol Records in 1970. It was produced by David Cavanaugh, with arrangements and conducting by Phil Wright and Jimmy Jones.

In a positive review, Record World called it "another bright and warm outing for the multi-talented Miss Wilson. This is a composer's album with songs by Bacharach and David, Leonard Cohen, Leiber and Stoller, and Jimmy Webb."{{cite news |title=Pick Hits Album Reviews |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Record-World/70s/70/RW-1970-03-07.pdf#page=10 |work=Record World |date=1970-03-07 |access-date=2018-12-04}}

The album also contains an early Bacharach song written with Bob Hilliard, "Waitin' For Charlie To Come Home," as well as songs made famous by Dusty Springfield and Blood, Sweat & Tears. The song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" had been included on Wilson's previous album, Hurt So Bad (1969), but it proved so successful on radio that Capitol made it the title track of her new album.{{cite web |url=http://www.soulmusic.info/main.asp?S=3&T=36&ART=2769 |title=NANCY WILSON: CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU/NOW I'M A WOMAN EXPANDED EDITION (SMCR-25087) |last=Nathan |first=David |author-link=David Nathan (music writer) |access-date=2018-12-04 |archive-date=2018-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205005117/http://www.soulmusic.info/main.asp?S=3&T=36&ART=2769 |url-status=live }}

Can't Take My Eyes Off You entered the Billboard 200 on March 28, 1970, peaking at No. 155 and remaining on the chart for six weeks.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/tlp/|title=Nancy Wilson Can't Take My Eyes Off You Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2018-12-03}} It fared better on Billboard{{'}}s Hot R&B LPs, reaching No. 38.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/blp/|title=Nancy Wilson Can't Take My Eyes Off You Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2018-12-03|archive-date=2023-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713181634/https://www.billboard.com/artist/nancy-wilson/chart-history/blp/|url-status=live}}

In 2013, SoulMusic Records released a digitally remastered version of the album, paired with Now I'm a Woman, another Wilson album from 1970. The compact disc contains three bonus tracks.{{Cite news|url=https://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Wilson-Cant-Take-My-Eyes-Off-You-Now-Im-A-Woman/release/4813293|title=Nancy Wilson – Can't Take My Eye Off You / Now I'm a Woman |work=Discogs|access-date=2018-12-03}}