Nancy Sinatra
On its 55th anniversary, her debut remastered with two bonus tracks and deluxe booklet. Formats include 8-track cartridge!
THE STORY goes that when Boots’ producer Lee Hazlewood dropped by the Sinatra house with some of his songs, Nancy chose one he planned to sing himself: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. Frank Sinatra, looking up from his newspaper, agreed. And that tough/innocent ’60s girl-singer mix, backed by the Wrecking Crew
(the opening bass line is brilliant) still sounds impossibly cool, like a Tarantino movie in one song. Daughter, like father, was an interpretive singer of songs, including It Ain’t Me Babe, As Tears Go By and – a really interesting cover – Day Tripper. The bonuses? The City
Never Sleeps At Night – the Hazlewood-penned B-side of the These Boots… single – sounds like an American yé-yé song; while the previously unreleased
For Some is delivered in a slow, soulful, big production with horns and backing singers, plus lyrics and attitude which are the polar opposite to These Boots’s.