NANCY: I used to write three- and four-part harmonies for my YWCA club in high school. They gave Barry Sadler the Grammy for Ballad of the Green Berets the same year that Boots came out. I’ll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. To them, I’m Frank’s daughter and all I ever did right was to be born to him. NANCY: I’m still “Frank’s kid” which is absurd at this point. He’s right.īasically, she suffered because she was popular music aristocracy right from the start, and her elaborate musical arrangements indicated a silver spoon beginning.
David Hepworth placed Summer Wine on his list of “Greatest B sides of all time” in 2018. In Rat Pack Confidential, Shawn Levy was gratuitously nasty mentioning ‘terrible songs,’ but was more interested in her shorts, boots and go-go dancers.īut the tide is changing, and things get better … in 2015 Rolling Stone placed Nancy & Lee ninth in their list of Twenty Greatest Duos of All Time.
In The Heart & Soul of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles, Dave Marsh included Lee Hazlewood’s production of Rebel Rouser, then dissed his “silly duet” with Nancy on These Boots Are Made For Walking. OK, Dave, but a “duet” is a song with two singers. The third gave her albums a dismissive two stars, then the fourth skipped her again. The first two editions of Rolling Stone Album Guide simply skipped her. Nancy Sinatra’s critical reputation has suffered from a strong streak of rock snobbery. For decades Somethin’ Stupid was the only Frank Sinatra recording in the house (though I now have several albums … I got older and less blinkered in my tastes). I was Bob Dylan & The Beatles generation and to me Frank Sinatra was a previous generation’s style and music.
The bass sound was always incredible too. I started with buying her Reprise 45s as they came out, and noticed right away that the B-sides were unusually strong as good or better than the A sides. That’s not relevant here, but I will repeat the lis of ten (we all love lists), and add another ten as “shortlist.” The edited version is on Toppermost, where writers select their ten favourite songs. Few if any artistes communicate with their fan base as she does. It owes a massive debt to, which is full of information and quotes. I spent the time of being confined to home and partly immobile, in researching, downloading the later (and very early) rarities which were new to me, and expanding the piece. I’d written the Toppermost based on what I already had and knew, then had a knee operation and was in recovery. This article started as a Toppermost post.
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