She is a singer, arranger, composer and producer who married the late Oscar nominated composer Floyd Huddleston in 1965.
She has worked with various artists in the field of popular music, releasing several of her own singles, as well as in the field of film and television music. In 1969 she appeared as a singer in several episodes of the the TV series Music Scene and in 1973 arranged and performed the part of Maid Marian in her husband’s Oscar nominated song “Love” in the Disney movie Robin Hood.
During the latter half of the 1970s Bobby Vinton gave her special thanks in the credits of his 1976 release Party Music; 20 Hits and 1979 saw her performing as a background vocalist on Frank Sinatra’s 1979 boxed set, Trilogy.
The 1970s was also a time when her compositions came to the fore and 1977 saw her writing the theme music to Hitch Hike to Hell and three years later she wrote the theme for the 1980 TV series Stone.
Not content with singing and writing music she became the producer for TV’s 2007 The Greatest Show Ever which was written and directed by her son Huston Huddleston. In 2012 she became the CFO for the New Starship Foundation in Van Nuys, California.
Here she is performing “Somebody’s in my Orchard”…
Sources:
- http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Nancy_Adams
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/1136211-Nancy-Adams
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011235/
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815169/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2287864/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399666/bio
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music_~~_20_Hits
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(1973_song)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-adams-huddleston-bb45874b