NANCY SINATRA
Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra and is widely known for her 1966 signature hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”. Other defining recordings include “Sugar Town”, the 1967 number one “Somethin’ Stupid” (a duet with her father), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as “Jackson”, and her cover of Cher’s “Bang Bang”, which was used in the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 film Kill Bill: Vol. One. (More from Wikipedia)
One garage rock compilation album that I picked up by mailorder sometime along the line is We Had the Beat / The Heart Beats & Other Texas Girls of the 60’s. The Heart Beats were a good enough band, as were the other featured bands; mostly they recorded serviceable covers of songs like “Little Latin Lupe Lu”, “Poor Side of Town” and the Nancy Sinatra hit “How Does that Grab You, Darlin’?”.
(April 2012)
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Glen Campbell quickly became highly sought after as a guitarist and played for a wide variety of artists in the 1960’s; Wikipedia lists recordings by Bobby Darin, Rick Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan & Dean, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra.
Wikipedia lists an almost completely different group of artists in that article (as opposed to those listed above who were backed by Glen Campbell in particular): “Notable artists employing the Wrecking Crew’s talents included Nancy Sinatra, Bobby Vee, the Partridge Family, the Mamas and the Papas, the Carpenters, the 5th Dimension, John Denver, the Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, the Grass Roots, and Nat King Cole.”
(February 2015)
