Nancy Sinatra S/D

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

never seen that one

How Does That Grab You is good too

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

"Lady Bird", yo.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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