Chrissie Hynde Instagram – Excerpt from Music Business, 1st August 1964: . For five years “things have been moving cautiously for me,” said Nancy Wilson last week. The masterpiece of understatement came in the wake of the Capitol songbird’s first smash single ‘How Glad I Am’ (number 14 in the Pop 100 this week) and coverage in Time last week (and Newsweek this week) and a sensationally successful opening recently at Los Angeles’ venerable Coconut Grove. . “I went into the studio with the deliberate idea of cutting a top 40 kind of hit,” she said. “Actually though, I didn’t sing any differently than I ever do. It’s the material itself that did it and of course the arrangement. As far as my singing goes, I think it’s always been pop singing really. “People have labelled me as jazz. I don’t like that designation. I want to be able to reach everybody, not just the jazz crowd. And besides, who is to say what a jazz singer is anyway? If it’s scat singing, I don’t qualify, because I’ve never scatted, never!” . Chrissie’s cover of How Glad I Am appears on new album, ‘Valve Bone Woe’, out September 6th. www.chrissiehynde.com