Nancy Sinatra S/D

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I mean, "Boots are made for walkin'" is FANTASTIC! So I figure, that can't be all of any use of hers, can it?

Or can it?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Discounting that duet with her dad, obviously.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"bang bang" is good.

― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

love that Bond song

― Brian the Snorf, Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Search - stuff with Lee Hazelwood.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 6 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, 'jackson' 'sand' 'some velvet morning' and that one where they are saying goodnight to each other....."its howdy doody time, howdy doody time"

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(!) Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town (!)

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

summer wine

― robin (robin), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and sand

― robin (robin), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Lightning's Girl is also fantastic as are most of the duets she did with Hazlewood.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Check out her version of The Beatles' "You Better Run."

I do a girl-band-DJ night in Philadelphia called Sugar Town.

― Sara Sherr, Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything with Lee is at least kitschy fun and at most absolutely BRILLIANT. The sloooow version of You've Lost that Loving Feeling, Sand, Sundown Sundown, Bang Bang, The City Never Sleeps at Night, Lightning's Girl, etc

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The duets with Mr Hazlewood will make you laugh, will make you cry... I can't imagine anyone's life not being improved by one of those N&L best-of's, at the very least.

"Arkansas Coal (Suite)" and that cover of Dolly's "Down From Dover" are some more humdingers to add to the list.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with eleki-san.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 7 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Movin' With Nancy DVD of her 1967 TV special, with proto-videos of "Jackson", "Some Velvet Morning", "Sugar Town", swingin' dance numbers, her RC Cola commercials and appearances by Dean and Sammy

― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 7 March 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently listened to the duet with Frank (Something Stupid) and after not having heard it in decades was amazed that she actually sang lower than him.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

El Morrissey is supposedly getting together an album for her to release via his label. Could be interesting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

She wuz, though, lightning in a bottle and pretty much summed up the image of a 1966-68 goddess.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"So long, babe"...great!

― d_g, Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

search: sand, some velvet morning (though sick of it thanks to the millions of schmoes that covered it), sugar town, LIGHTNINGS GIRL fucking rules badass shit, how does that grab you darling is wonderful even though its basically a rewrite of boots, lady bird, summer wine, you only live twice, i've been down so long it looks like up to me.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

LIGHTNINGS GIRL fucking rules badass shit

Very, very true. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

To Nancy, With Love

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

another vote for all of the nancy & lee stuff, and also for "so long, babe." that song is GORGEOUS. i don't think "sorry 'bout that" has been mentioned yet. it's quite bad-ass as well, almost as much as "these boots."

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There is nothing to destroy... but search, especially 'I can't grow peaches on a cherry tree'. And her Coke ad!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

search: "last of the secret agents." a fantastic satirical movie theme song.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe some people think of her as kitsch, the music she made with Lee is (to me, anyway) quite timeless and lovely.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think some of it's a bit kitschy in that Shangri-las kinda way. There's also a lot of schmaltz there too, esp. on the filler cuts which aren't always so timeless and lovely sounding. In fact, a lot of it's pretty disposable save for the dozen or so songs that've been mentioned already.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Search- all of the above

plus- friday's Child, Good Time Girl, Flowers on the wall, Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman, Do you ever?, and the two other frank & nancy songs- Feeling kinda sunday and Life's a trippy thing (in fact search for that last one first!)

― officer pupp, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Weeell, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree because I don't find the Shangri-Las particularly kitsch either.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that kitsch really, except her 'Moving with Nancy' TV special, whcih is great anyway.
I'll add 'Paris Summer' to all the fantastic tunes already mentionned.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/news/2004/images/00341971.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe campy would be a better way of putting it?

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the Sugar album (1967) like? The only track on it I know is "Sugar Town". I saw a second handy vinyl copy the other day and was tempted.

Track list here (tho' this is the CD reissue):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003GYK/102-5401225-2538503?v=glance

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It has a great cover! As the Amazon reviews point out it has lots of 30s songs--'Sugar Town' isn't really representative of the rest if the album. I haven't heard it in years (I used to own just about all her records) but I don't remember it being that interesting except that I thought Nancy's singing was probably better here than on any of her other records--she sounds great belting out 'Sweet Georgia Brown' but your interest may depends on your liking for this sort of material.

― rw, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i love her more then almost anyone

― anthony, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, the hipness of seeing her live at the Poison Room a couple of years ago...

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 March 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

doh! the Viper Room..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 March 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

And here come the celebrity line-up: http://www.nme.com/news/107809.htm

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

leave her alone.

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"How does that grab you, darlin?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 March 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Any Best Of Nancy that includes the Lee Hazlewood stuff is absolutely fucking essential.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

New Nancy and Lee Hazlewood single released today in Australia (Duane Eddy plays guitar on it). New Nancy/Lee album due out real soon now.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Feh.

― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shizzle

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The new nancy/lee has barricades and brickwalls, that fantastic fuck you by kasey chambers.

― anthony, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Nancy's music is timeless. I saw her in concert in NY last year and she rocked the House Of Blues! Barricades and Brick Walls was brilliant sung live and the duet with Lee is definitely music to ones ears. Check it out ASAP.

― herfandan, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

my goodness, there's even an incongruous appearance by dale winton in the video on her website! what next, 'dear warlock williams' an album of larkin poetry set to music by bob stanley? an appearance in a carry on film?

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

is it true that that is nancy on mort garsons wozard of iz? or one of those urban myths that wont die? it doesnt sound like her, that much, i think

― *@*.* (gareth), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago)

i found the Sugar album recently and it's god awful

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Well said, I sez.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

revisiting Nancy and Lee, and *wow*

"Summer Wine" is one of my all time favorite pop songs, for sure

― lukevalentine, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:43 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJB-hIhP--U

― buzza, Friday, 19 August 2011 06:38 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrCF5iqFiE4

I had never heard this before tonight. Like faux-country samba funk meets a sleepy orchestra.

― all other cassettes are better off crushed (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 2 August 2013 09:56 (twelve years ago)

Finally got a copy of the raven label compi of her material a few months ago. Found it on an online marketplace for about the price I would have payed for it new and current. Was in pretty decent nick & it is the best compi of her material that i've come across so far. That label seems to be pretty consisten t in the quality of their cds.
Sound is much better tahn the other compi cd I have which is very thin sounding.

& I've loved the Nancy & Lee material since I first discovered it at Blixa Bargeld's reccommendation in the mid 80s. Unfortunately quite a bit of the lp with the golden brown cover has trite covers on but the Lee Hazlewood penned material is really great.

― Stevolende, Friday, 2 August 2013 16:27 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Nancy & Lee is amazing, but having a hard time deciding whether her voice stands up to his. Or maybe it works because it doesn't.

― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:00 (nine years ago)

i found the Sugar album recently and it's god awful

Yep. Including the hideous cover, which is also hideously printed. Ugh. Given the participants (Lee Hazelwood, Billy Strange, the Wrecking Crew) it should actually have a stronger reputation of being one of the worst conceived and executed albums ever.

Other than Nancy & Lee, her best album is Boots.

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)

never seen that one

How Does That Grab You is good too

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:35 (nine years ago)

It is good - similar but not quite as good as Boots.

Basically its: Nancy & Lee>Boots>How Does That Grab You. Moving With Nancy is a decent compilation. Then the rest is a badly conceived C&W/easy listening mish-mash of new and old stuff with a handful of good tracks. I'm not too familiar with her 90s stuff though.

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:10 (nine years ago)

The Raven compi Lightning's Girl is pretty solid. Shame it's long OOP.
Tended to find the Nancy & Lee lp a bit one sided. All the good stuff is on the 2nd side but one.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:12 (nine years ago)

Opening track is the worst on the album. Storybook Children is pretty meh. The rest I like. Does this mean you don't like Elusive Dreams?

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:27 (nine years ago)

I didn't tend to listen to it. Just reminded of it by checking what was on there other than Summer Wine. Do love that one.
But side 2 was one I listened to heavily. Including Jackson.
I got turned onto them by Neubauten and particularly a conversation I had with Blixa in 85. He thought they were a great love story though. Got lucky and found a 2nd hand copy of Nancy & Lee shortly afterward.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:48 (nine years ago)

You can make a better version of Nancy & Lee by ditching You've Lost That Loving Feeling/Storybook Children and adding the two sides from the Down From Dover/Paris Summer single. Both are excellent and sit awkwardly on the album Did You Ever, which is patchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9X8W_SoYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJI8WCTvnSE

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

I have that Boyd Rice/ Rose McDowell Spell lp somewhere which has Down From Dover on it.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:14 (nine years ago)

It's on Lightning's Girl too. Great compi, probably the best I'm aware of.
Has most of the great Lee Hazlewood, other solo and Something Stupid with her dad on.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:19 (nine years ago)

You've Lost That Loving Feeling is one of the best things on Nancy & Lee imo.

― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:23 (nine years ago)

Basically listen to it for that, Some Velvet Morning, Summer Wine, and Sand.

― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:23 (nine years ago)

"Lady Bird", yo.

― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:26 (nine years ago)

How about Nancy's delivery of the last verse of My Elusive Dreams? "But this time only two of us move on...and now, now we have each other...and, a little memory to cling to"/ Lee: "And still you won't let me go on alone".

That's part of the album's genius right there.

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)

Thinking now about Down From Dover, maybe two dead baby songs would be too much for one album.

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:34 (nine years ago)

Anyone ever given Nancy & Lee 3 a listen? Never got round to it.

― everything, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 22:00 (nine years ago)

Nancy & Lee is amazing, but having a hard time deciding whether her voice stands up to his.

a weird thing to say about a guy who had no voice!

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 22:01 (nine years ago)

I like the 1969 LP Nancy, which Hazlewood wasn't involved with at all but which features some fine Wrecking Crew work and Billy Strange guitar solos. The single was the Bobbie Gentry-ish "God Knows I Love You," written by Delaney Bramlett & Mac Davis. There's also a version of "Light My Fire" that follows José Feliciano's version more than the Doors'. She's clearly moving into Adult Contemporary territory on this album, but in an sultry, bass-heavy, late '60s way.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 03:31 (nine years ago)

I think the Lightning Girl comp has everything one would need on it.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 08:19 (nine years ago)

My favorite, from Nancy In London. One of my alltime best mixtapes started with this and segued into "In The Flesh" by Blondie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29jqrdYbvM

― Double Nickels on the Pecunidigm (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:11 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr9HBwMUWV8

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 13 October 2017 07:21 (seven years ago)

six years pass...

got very lucky and found a sealed (but probably returned bc it was priced as used) copy of the Light in the Attic RSD orange cream wax release of How Does That Grab You? the other day, which was my single desired RSD release this year. Thought i was going to have to pay a lot more on ebay but it was only $25. sounds AMAZING.

― omar little, Friday, 7 June 2024 16:23 (one year ago)

one year passes...

i just want to salute my one kid that on just about every car drive asks me to play "lady bird". could've requested anything more immediate from that LIITA comp.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 25 August 2025 03:41 (four weeks ago)

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