Nancy Sinatra-Why?

You sound like a real asshole, OP. A real old asshole.

She was signed to her dad's Reprise label and had the good sense to collaborate with Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced some of her best and catchiest tunes. NS also epitomized the Mod style, which was all the rage in the UK and the US, which made her very popular on both sides of the Atlantic.

And, OP, whether or not you like her voice, she wasn't "mostly tone deaf." Maybe you should learn what "tone deaf" means, you moron.

OP:

I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah,

And there's a big 'ol grease fire that's about to burn.

the boots

Be nice!

Something wrong with you, OP?

Nancy Sinatra was just fine. She's iconic. And for her hit alone "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," she's not to be fucked around with from the likes of you.

I gotta get outta this town

I follow her on Twitter, she's very politically aware, smart, good natured and funny. She follows back.

She showed her teeny tiny tits in Playboy

You only live twice, OP.

Nancy hosts the "Nancy for Frank" show on Sirius/XM's Siriusly Sinatra channel. She plays some really obscure and interesting stuff at times, and has some pretty good stories as well.

She had no range and could not carry a tune in a bucket. Made Stevie Nicks sound like Steisand. Obviously owed her career to her last name, because she has absolutely no singing talent.

R12 is a thousand years old, yet has managed to not learn anything along the way.

She had a very small range, yes; but she absolutely could carry a tune within it, and she was sexy and smoldering and the fact that she was Sinatra's daughter made her all the more exciting. And she had the good fortune to team up with Lee Hazelwood who knew exactly how to show off her talents to their best advantage.

No one had seen anything like her when she appeared on the scene. She was a real original, and she fit in perfectly with the style and sexuality of the era.

She has a very good reputation in Hollywood for standing by and HELPING ($$$) old friends who are down on their luck or sick. So give her a break. She is a better human being than you, OP.

R15. That's nice about Nancy Sinatra. I've heard the same thing about her father. For all of his tough guy gruffness, Frank Sinatra was very generous.

Frank Sinatra paid for Judy Garland's funeral. As Frank said, "The rest of us will be forgotten. Judy's the one they'll remember."

She performed with Wilco a few weeks ago.

So she's a sexy smoldering Mother Theresa. She still CANNOT sing and she ONLY had a career because her father was Frank Sinatra, mob singer.

I didn't matter whether Nancy was a fabulous singer. She had a hip, icy, fuck-you attitude that most early '60s girl singers didn't have.

OMG, who doesn't love Nancy Sinatra? Some old, shriveled, toxic queen, apparently.

Listen to her work with Lee Hazelwood. If you still think she's a bad singer then you're just a cunt.

r16 - Liza paid for Judy's funeral as wels as a couple million $$ worth of her debts. I'm sure Frank was a genreous, stand up guy with friends - but Liza worked her ass off to bring Mamma into good standing.

r12, don't mess with any female pop singers, white ones anyway. Gets DL's collective caftan in a bunch.

You asked why Nancy Sinatra was a star and we explained it to you. Now you're just whining.

Watch this slowly turn into a Judy thread.

She had the look and the attitude -- and her music is a lot more listenable today than that of dreary hippies like Joan Baez.

[quote] dreary hippies like Joan Baez.

Bitch, you did not just say that.

[quote]Nancy Sinatra-Why?

Why not?

Signed, Natalie Cole, Monica Mancini, Deana Martin, and Daisy Tormé.

OP, and you think Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and JLo can sing? Or even Lesley Gore for that matter?

Lesley Gore actually is a pretty good singer, the problem is her voice is only suited to a style that went permanently out of fashion by the end of the 60s. Plus she can't sing ballads, unless you like Wayne Newton, because that's who Lesley sounds like when singing ballads. Her voice was always very high, which worked perfectly for her frothy girl-group hits, but you notice it more on the ballads.

Who the fuick doesn't like Nancy Sinatra?! She made a few records in the course of a few years--and people are still talking about her. And then went onto perform all over the world. She even went on the road and entertained the troops. That's pretty goddamn good record for show business.

She's one of the first ladies of rock 'n roll, so hit the road OP. Jesus Christ. Who the hell are you--Debbie Downer.

And by the way, Nancy's "Playboy" spread remains one the top sellers of all time.

About seven years ago, I attended a Summer Pops outdoor concert in San Diego where Frank Sinatra, Jr. performed, who by the way, is also a very good singer. He's quite the musician and sounds just like his father. Okay fine, there can only be one Frank Sinatra, but Frank Sinatra, Jr. was goddamn good.

In the middle of the concert during Frank Jr's banter with the audience, he said he wanted to introduce someone who is even more famous than he is and someone who made her mark in the music industry. The spotlight came on and immediately lit up Nancy Sinatra's table. As soon as her brother announced Nancy's name, a loud, quite audible gasp came form the audience who then erupted in applause.

What a hoot to have Nancy Sinatra in the audience. The crowd loved her as she rose to wave and acknowledge their cheers. There she was--Nancy Sinatra sitting there with her kids cheering on her brother. The audience was thrilled.

So OP--that's why!

I'm surprised there's so much hostility about someone stating the obvious, she had a mediocre voice. And Boots, the signature song, is just a catchy novelty song. It didn't need a great or even particularly memorable vocal to be a hit, and it sure didn't get one either.

Nancy Sinatra has had quite a career. Good for her.

Lee Hazelwood for starters. Plus Nancy, while having a limited vocal range, was very good when she had songs that were right for her. She could sound either tough and jaded, as on These Boots, or ethereal and sweet, as on her masterpiece of a duet with Hazelwood Some Velvet Morning

"Something Stupid," the duet she did with her dad was pretty good.

The classic...Something Stupid:

I love that song r37... was just about to post it myself.

Autotune would have helped. The same could be said of her father in the last ten years of his appearances.

It's one thing to say that Nancy Sinatra wouldn't have had a career if it wasn't for her father, which is probably true in the sense that it's obviously much easier for someone with major connections to get a start in show biz. And I think we'd all agree it's fair to say that Nancy's voice was "mediocre" compared to Streisand and other great voices of our time. But anyone who says Nancy was "charm free," "untalented," and "mostly tone deaf" only makes himself look stupid, as in "Somethin' Stupid."

OP, the short answer?

I just thought she was cool. When 'boots' came out, I was 7 years old and they played that song over the airwaves ALOT. She was also on every show from Hullabaloo to the Man From UNCLE, so she was everywhere. At that point, young girls HAD to have a pair of white go-go boots, and I was one of them. I begged my mom and got a pair for my birthday and wore those babies out.

Because her fans were mostly young girls like me, the fact that she was not the best singer didn't matter. Think Madonna in the very beginning of her career when every girl wanted to dress like her.

I have a copy of Movin' With Nancy. Great memories.

Here's the RC cola commercial from the show:

She friends with Morrissey.

[quote] OMG, who doesn't love Nancy Sinatra?

People who still have their sense of hearing intact.

She redid her routine on "China Beach" and didn't look much older than she had when she was doing her USO tour. Of course, she lip synched and never had a speaking line.

[quote]"Something Stupid," the duet she did with her dad was pretty good.

I really like that song, but I think she sounds terrible.

Wow, a hundred caftans are FLAPPING in RAGE at anyone who dares to not love Nancy Sinatra.

Nancy Sinatra always tells the story of the time Lee Hazelwood and herself were at her Mom's house listening to hundreds of demos for her first album.

Frank Sinatra was in the living room reading the paper as it was Sunday dinner (Divorced 17 years he tried never to miss Sunday dinner with his family)...

After hours of playing song after song, Nancy went in to say Hi to her Dad and asked him if there was anything her heard he liked...

Frank responded (with his hatred for rock music) that it all "sounded like shit to him"..........."Except for the song about the boots....the boots song is good"...

She has Papa to thank for that (among other things like one third of every royalty paid to Sinatra from his death on..)

[quote]She has Papa to thank for that (among other things like one third of every royalty paid to Sinatra from his death on..)

He didn't leave anything to his widow?

Her rendition of "My Beautiful Balloon" is one of my guilty pleasures. Maybe because of the pornographic imagery at the beginning.

Besides go-go boots she also popularized frosted lipstick and frosted hair.

Not only is her "Nancy For Frank" program on Siriusly Sinatra 71 top-notch, she's been involved with "Little" Steve Van Zandt's garage/underground music initiative.

She's a trooper, and a great broad, in the very best sense of the word. Hell of a raconteur, as well.

Go listen to Nancy & Lee Hazlewood's "Sweet Cherry Wine", then listen to Lana Del Rey's version.

You'd have to be a pretty damned bored and curdled string of misery to throw shade at her, of all people.

I have had the PLEASURE of meeting Nancy Sinatra and I LURVE her so.

Nancy Sinatra is one of the kindest, salt-of-the-earth, compassionate, generous, and self-effacing people I have ever met.

She's also very cool, and even cooler with the gays.

Give her respect, people.

Nancy: The "IT" girl of her era.

Lee Hazlewood used her pretty effectively.

But she was totally out of her depth when called upon to sing "You Only Live Twice". They should have given it to Petula Clark.

TestiFY!, brother R52!

Part of the public's fascination with Nancy Sinatra at the time was, apart from being Frank's daughter, she was Mrs. Tommy Sands, wife of the '50s teen singing sensation. Despite the lack of hits early in her music career (she was in danger of being dropped from Reprise), she made the covers of teen mags and gossip rags due to her association with Sands. After their divorce in '65, Nancy had a complete image overhaul, transforming from conservative-looking housewife to liberated blonde sexpot in miniskirts and go-go boots, showcasing the latest in Carnaby Street fashions and Swinging Sixties attitude. That, combined with the don't-fuck-with-me-fella, pre-feminist anthem "These Boots Are Made for Walking" struck gold with young female audiences. It was the [italic]Emancipation of Nancy[/italic]. Tommy Sands, on the other hand, followed the opposite career trajectory, supposedly having been blacklisted from the industry by his former father-in-law.

Have you ever heard of the word "camp," OP? She and her music and, ahem, "acting," were trashy and fun. I think she's great. Morrisey produced an album for her in the late 90s/early 2000s and it was quite good.

R56, how could she be dropped by her FATHER'S label? He owned it, didn't he??

In an interview with Larry King, Nancy admitted that she adored Ava Gardner, though she would feel guilty about that upon returning to her mother's house after a visit with Frank and Ava.

She was aware of her limitations and worked within them. She wasn't trying to be a Streisand, fer chrissake. And I'd rather listen to any of Nancy's classic records than Babs or any other belter. Fair enough, you don't like Nancy's voice, but "charm-free"? That criticism makes no sense at all.

Her best work was with Lee Hazelwood, no technically proficient singer himself. That doesn't make the music any less enjoyable.

Why pick on Nancy? Why not Claudine Longet, Brigitte Bardot or any of the talentless singers of today who rely on autotune? Seems like a weird ax to grind with someone whose records haven't been popular for 40+ years.

The first album I ever bought was Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. I think I was in 4th grade. I don't often admit to this.

r59

Years ago, I read Nancy's awe-struck description of Ava drying her hair in front of a fireplace. Nancy really had a thing for Ava.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_eW9VSUwM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

In the future, people will ask:

North West-Why?

OP, who in their right mind wouldn't like this number?:

I love Nancy. If you follow her on twitter, you will see she is very progressive and cares about the world.

She is also gay friendly and a great supporter of Adam Lambert's work (saying many times that he is her favorite contemporary singer).

Range isn't everything in a vocalist...she had a great voice and a sassy, funky, sexy image. She was cool.

"Sugartown," "Summer Wine," and, of course, the glorious "You Only Live Twice," with Megan and Don.

Thanks, R65. Wow, I didn't realize they were making music videos back then. Nancy Sinatra was so cool and such a babe in the '60s.

Nancy Sinatra belongs in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.

Auto tune would have ruined her, that's so obvious and unprofessional.

To point out the glaringly obvious: quality of material > voice

Yeah so she couldn't sing for shit but that's hardly the point. Famously "These Boots" is the easiest song to sing, so limited is the range and hence covers by Geri Halliwell and Paula Yates.

But she and mentor Lee Hazlewood (also couldn't sing for shit) made some of the best records of the 60s with their detached ironic duets.

I've always loved her cover of Petula Clark's "Call Me". Her voice is so smoldering and sexy on this song. In fact, I often play it before going out for the evening.

Love Nancy. She made the most of her talent and crafted a kick-ass image that still resonates today.

"Summer Wine", rather than "Sweet Cherry Wine" - sorry about the non-hyperlinked YT string.

R72 is getting at something that is often ignored in discussions of this ilk. A good singer may have a marginal voice but a good command of technique and style.

R75, Diana Ross comes to mind.

Yeah, I realize that Dusty Springfield performs the definitive version of "Wishin' and Hopin'," but Nancy kicks ass with her version.

Nancy Sinatra was beautiful singing with Uncle Dean.

I love this slow jazzy version she does of "As Tears Go By". Nancy had great phrasing and really knew how to convey the feeling of a song.

Posing for PLAYBOY in 1995 . . .

[quote]"Something Stupid," the duet she did with her dad was pretty good.

There is something off about a father and daughter singing about strategizing an evening of fucking.

Nancy Sinatra is the fucking bomb. A real show biz trooper, hot lady, cool mama.

Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring . . .

R80 We had BUSHES then!

Frank left his three children...all the masters to all his recordings...all his music publishing and any monies derived from anything else (Radio/DVD, etc)..

The last wife got the houses and cars and a wad of cash...

Frank's great great great grandchildren will never have to work a day in their lives..

In 2012, Frank Sinatra sold about a 500k in CD's/digital sales....alone...

He'll probably sell about the same this year..

It looked like Nancy had implants on the cover of Sugar Town. Another hot slutty shoot. You get the feeling she was rebelling against someone.

I'm not of Nancy Sinatra's era at all and I can even see her for being a really cool ass chick. She was sexy and somewhat raw. Her delivery in "These Boots Were Made For Walking" is very raw and real. And, as a Lesbian, what videos I have seen of Nancy Sinatra (like the ones linked to on this thread) are really fucking sexy!

How anyone can't find Nancy Sinatra stone cold cool is beyond me.

"Arkansas Gold", a masterpiece of eerie '60's production. Nancy's spirited innocence is utilized here:

OP: With almost universal support of Nancy on this thread, it appears you are in the minority. Not that it's wrong to have the opinion you do, but you asked "Why?" Perhaps by now you understand the appeal and enduring affection for Nancy Sinatra.

But keep the Nancy posts coming. It's great reading how others liked her so much.

Goddammit, put Nancy Sinatra in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame!

[quote] Her delivery in "These Boots Were Made For Walking" is very raw and real.

She was hardly Etta James.

Sinatra's appeal was mainly visual, which is why she hasn't gone on to have a career like, say, Marianne Faithfull.

"Don't Let Him Waste Your Time", Nancy's most recent comeback single, written for her by the underrated Jarvis Cocker:

Just wanted to post another of the Movin' With Nancy RC commercials. This one starred Dino, Desi and Billy:

Nancy Sinatra very kind to the poor--I have witnessed this with my own eyes. She talks to the poor as they are equals with her in social standing.

She is a fantastic person, and I LURVE her.

R91. I'm not trying to compare her to Etta James of all people. What I'm trying to say is that her delivery in that one song is very raw and real in that she is giving the fellow she is singing about the what for wonderfully. You can tell from the first line that the song is a tell off song. She knew what she was doing very well even if she didn't inherit her father's vocal talents.

I disagree that her "appeal was mainly visual." That's not what makes the Nancy & Lee albums so timeless. Great songwriting, great production and the blend of their two unique voices.

So why no latterday career resurgence for Nancy?

Certainly being Frank Sinatra's daughter opened every showbiz door for her but Nancy Sinatra delivered the goods and she's well respected.

Note that the careers of her siblings (Tina and Frank Jr) never took off. Having a famous parent can only do so much.

Nancy Sinatra did not have a great voice... but it sure was effective.

The Hazlewood collaboration produced some fabulously artsy stuff.

I've always wondered if Sinatra's 1966 look was the inspiration for Jane Fonda's look, 2 years later, in Barbarella.

No surprise that Nancy is loved here and a proper icon, gay or otherwise.. any of that 60s girl group type stuff is instant pop nirvana.

Her comeback album was decent enough as those things go, but I preferred Mary Weiss (Shangri-Las) comeback.. if only just to have her back. "Let Me Kiss You" is the one stinker of the You Are the Quarry singles. Morrissey and Nancy had an awkward moment in his documentary when Nance said how much she loved the Queen.

This is a great cover. Out goes the towering melodramatic bombast replaced with some lovely ironic ennui.

These records were well ahead of the time and there wasn't anything like them in the 60s and they're constantly brought up as a reference by indie artists.

Nancy Sinatra was considered a JOKE -- AT THE TIME. Aside from These Boot are Made for Walking, NOBODY took her seriously for a second.

I cringed when Mad Men used her vocal of a Bond tune at the end of a very good episode. Don't these fools know what a joke Nancy Sinatra was??? Song was good, how, about using a Jack Jones or Al Martino cover?

In the middle of Nancy's cockamamie TV special in 1967, Frank sings Younger Than Springtime:

I wonder if Nancy likes Janet Jackson.

R101 Al Martino!!!???

Oh honey, have I got a few Al Martino stories to tell you, but alas, I respect people's privacy.

Al Martino was on the level of the Rolling Stones, seriously.

Thank you, r72. I forgot about, "Some Velvet Morning".

[quote]So why no latterday career resurgence for Nancy?

R97. The music business is very, very tough. If you fall out of the spotlight, it's pretty much over. But Nancy did make a couple of albums in the latter days and hit the road performing in clubs.

But why no big resurgence? Because the music industry is almost solely focussed on youth. If you haven't noticed, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna suck all the oxygen everywhere they go. Look at the boy bands of the '90s. Yes, they've had a bit of a resurrgence, but it's somewhat short-lived. Yes, they're touring now, but they will fade.

Yes, there are some grown-ups who continue to sell records like Streisand and Cher, but that because they're Streisand and Cher, but it's also because Barbra and Cher never left the industry--they have continued to work and stay relevant.

Nancy put her career on hold when her second husband died of cancer and her kids were still young. She decided to be a Mom until her kids were out of college. Well, that might have been good for her kids, but it didn't help her career and visibility in today's market.

R101 You are completely wrong. You make no sense:. "Boots" was a smash and got 3 Grammy nominations. "Sugar Town" was a million seller. "jackson" was a hit (and was later covered by Johnnie Cash). "Summer Wine" was a hit. "You Only Live Twice" was a hit and remains iconic. "Something Stupid" was a no.1 smash in 1967...9 weeks on the chart.

Some joke.

If Nancy was considered a joke in the '60s, what did people think of Claudine Longet? Talk about having no range (though I admit her records have a certain camp appeal).

Personally, I think Claudine Longet was right on target.

I will give "Bang Bang" to Sinatra - her version is much better than Cher's.

There's really no comparison between Nancy Sinatra and Claudine Longet. Nancy actually was a singer whether you liked her or not. Claudine was a little kewpy doll who happened to chirp out a few songs, dated Andy Williams...and then shot her boyfriend Spider Savich.

She played a party for me once.

"If Nancy was considered a joke in the '60s, what did people think of Claudine Longet?"

Nobody gave a thought to Claudine Longet. Not ever.

R106, I was around in 1967. Where were you?

R103, we are looking for an adult pop singer to sing a ballad. The Rolling Stones didn't do that. The Stones were kids stuff -- not adult, in 1967. But you wouldn't know that.

I can recall some department stores not displaying one of her LP's . . . the one with her wearing a bikini while standing in a field.

Yes, I am old . . . 61.

R114, Oh, Dear.

I was referring to Al's reputation with the ladies.

Younger sister Tina was the prettier daughter, briefly engaged to Robert Wagner, dated James Farentino years later, who stalked her after she dumped him . . . it got ugly.

Mother Nancy, Sr. is still alive . . . she was Barbara Stanwyck's BFF . . . also bearded for producer Ross Hunter.

So, OP, most posters here seem to disagree with you. They think your fulla shit. .. How do you like THEM eggrolls!! :-))

Op-nancy rules. Get off our board

R117 - both mother and daughter liked the ladies.

Her "Sugar" album was great fun, with wonderful arrangements of songs from the 20s and 30s, like Sweet Georgia Brown, Limehouse Blues, Hard-Hearted Hannah, and so on. I still treasure my scratchy old vinyl copy of it.

The linked YouTube video is Sweet Georgia Brown, from that album.

It is interesting that while Nancy has several times mentioned Adam Lambert as being her favorite contemporary male singer (with a voice comparable to her Dad's), she has also said that Lana Del Rey is her favorite of the contemporary females.

Perhaps that means she sees Del Rey as closest to the young Nancy in terms of presentation and performance.

Lana has named Nancy as a major influence (and covered Summer Wine not too long ago). Lana's not that gifted in the vocal department either, but she works with what she's got. They should do a duet sometime.

Nancy's late hubby was named Lambert. Was he related to Adam?

Nancy's husband, Hugh Lambert, and Adam's father, Eber, were not related.

My gay nerdy cuties, i need to know some wild gossip about Nancy.

Well, what do you know about her dirty laundry?

I liked a whole lot better her version of Morrissey 'Let Me Kiss You'

It was far more sexy and original than the original Morrissey song!

She was married to teen heartthrob Tommy Sands when he was at his hottest and she also fucked Elvis.

Not only Lee, but Carol Kaye (she of the bass in "Boots" and Billy Strange.

The Wrecking Crew:

After their divorce, Tommy Sands claimed that no one would hire him after Frank put the word out.

Her mother, Nancy Sinatra, Sr., is still alive and well at 90 something. She was Stanwyck's best girlfriend for decades and also appeared on the arm of gay producer Ross Hunter at public events.

[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]

But what about ME, bitches??!

OP keeps trollin', where (s)he shouldn't be 'a trollin'. And (s)he keeps thinking that (s)he'll never get burned...HA!

R4 has a new source of combustion, yeah! And a kitchen conflagration's where you'll learn.

(repeat chorus)

Nancy's stuff was f'ing awesome. And she wasn't always buried in expensive production. "Boots" was just acoustic guitar & bass and some brass stabs. A "no-talent" couldn't pull that off, now could they? One of the brightest pop moments in a decade that was about to become very dire.

It was her brother Frank Jr. that was the real no-talent jerk. Recall if you will that he once referred to KISS as "bad fag rock".

Pick on him, ya' bully!

Dig the vid'..

Frank, Jr. is really not a junior at all. Nancy once told Howard Stern that he was named Franklin, after FDR.

Although she is Sinatra's daugher, total showbiz kid, she somehow has an "alternative", slightly woozy appeal. She'll be rediscovered forever.

She's good But she's no April Stevens...

I thought I was the only person alive--aside from Chris Isaak--who got the wonderfulness of April Stevens and Nino Tempo.

I really only know Teach Me Tiger r138. But I'll check your link out!

Nancy's eyes...

Don't like her rhinoplasty.

She helped fuel the "Who's Ronan's Father?" question by stating that Ronan will always be a part of the Sinatra family.

Even if daddy's name opened doors for her, Nancy kept them open. When I was a little kid everybody was buying Nancy Sinatra records. I love her!

Nancy was just so cool. I love watching clips of her from the 60s. She also had a tender, sweet voice. I especially like her cover of Petula Clark's "Call Me".

Frank photographed with daughters, Tina and Nancy, and Nancy (Sr).

She's a big friend of the gays and Hollywood likes her alot. So leave her alone or you'll sleep with the fishes.

One word: Frank.

Nancy is sexy/cool and she also seems to have never given a fuck what people think of her.

There is a term in Italian which I have hear before but do not know how to spell. The definition of the term is "one who does not give a fuck." Nancy does not give a fuck in spades and that is sexy/cool.

She would have gone nowhere w/o her Dad and his resources.

Check out her well-reviewed 2004 self-titled album.

I recall some department stores refusing to stock one of her LP's, with her wearing a pink bikini on the album cover.

Here she is with "Uncle Sammy" (one of Daddy's close friends!), "not feelin'it" at first... but nothing that some groovy soul music cannot take care of.

[quote]There is something off about a father and daughter singing about strategizing an evening of fucking.

Why?

Not creepy at all.

It's probably already been mentioned, but her only #1 was "Something Stupid", a duet with her father.

Pretty creepy, actually (considering the lyrics), but a decent song. She sang well.

I think that it still holds the record for the only #1 single by a father and daughter.

Nancy even sang "Something Stupid" with her brother.

EWWWW.

Sorry.

"I think that it still holds the record for the only #1 single by a father and daughter."

What in the hell was #2?

As a side-note, I didn't know that Nicole Kidman could sing.

Much more appropriate.

The very hip Thurston Moore wrote a song or two for her last album.

Well, a father and daughter could have sung a more appropriate song together, R158 , and could have possibly made #1, but it never happened.

Notice I said "only".

It's not a common thing to hear a song with incestuous undertones, thank God.

Her voice is very sexy. I love the way she sings.

Oh! I forgot to ask you. Was Nancy also a puta? There are some naked photos of her on the Internet. I thought she was just a singer...

Why did she pose nude????? She needed just money?

Boots was her lesbian lover. So her hit, which went to #1 unlike Joni Mitchell who didn't have a #1 hit, was about sending her cheating lesbian lover away. So she could make incest with her daddy on her other #1 hit.

Geez TWO #1 hits? Were they giving them away? And yet Joni couldn't get even one.

R165, what the hell are you talking about? Lol! Did Nancy had ever a lesbian lover? Ffs, is it true, or are you just kidding?

R163. When Nancy was about 55, she posed in Playboy. It was one of the best selling issues ever.

R167, well, i can see why it was one of the best selling issues ever. Hot Nancy. I bet her sex life was very active when she chose to do that. She seemed content.

Nancy was the opening act or the B-52s at Humphrey's in San Diego about 10 years ago. She was terrific. Sang for an hour and then finally at the end did a great "These Boots Are Made For Walking."

Tina is the one that's supposedly a total cunt. She manages her father's estate, at least the artistic side of it, and gets to decide who can use his songs, etc. and she's mean, greedy and rude about it. She once said, "I am Frank Sinatra."

Nancy Sinatra and Cher are the coolest chicks ever.

Well I never thought she was all that talented but it is nice to hear she's a good person. Her dad once was a good person but when he turned Republican that part of him had to have died long before his actual death.

Nancy is certainly intriguing. I like her, with or without her nude photos.

I found this info interesting:

Hazlewood set about reinventing Nancy as a "tough little broad", dyeing her brown hair blonde, swapping her ballgowns for Carnaby Street fashions and persuading her to wear boot-polish black eye make-up and frosted lipstick. He also persuaded her to lower her vocal pitch.

Hazlewood told her to sing it "like a 14-year-old girl who screws truck drivers" ("14" was later sanitised to "16" and "screws" to "dates"), and it sold five million copies to an audience blissfully unaware that, as Hazlewood put it, "anyone in my part of Texas knows that messin' [as in "You've been messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin"] means f*****'."

Initially, Nancy Sinatra sang alone. But when Reprise suggested she move on to duets, she insisted that only Hazlewood would do.

The songs' scurrilous lyrics, with their thinly-veiled references to drugs and sex ("Some velvet morning when I'm straight/ I'm going to open up your gate") were part of the attraction.

So too was the implication that theirs was more than a singing partnership, though Hazlewood maintained that they were just good friends and, in any case, Nancy, as a nice Catholic girl, never understood what she was singing about, having sensibly decided not to ask.

She should have done an album with Maria Muldaur (Midnight at the Oasis) since neither of them could carry a tune in a bucket.

Supposedly, Frank was more or less okay with Nancy showing her boobs in Playboy. He wasn't crazy about her baring bush.

I love her covers of "As Tears Go By" and this one.

I was a young teen when I first heard Boots. Instantly hated it, and her. She was so obviously trading on her famous name, because she couldn't sing for shit. She talked-sang, like non-singing actors cast in musicals did. I was a musicals fan, so I was very familiar with such fakery.

She was on all the variety shows with that fucking song. There was no escape. I was so sick of it, and her, and her attempts to be sexy. I didn't think she was any prettier than she was talented - her face looked so odd. I didn't realize then that was because of her extreme nose job.

Over the the next year she released more ear-torturing songs that inexplicably became hits. Each worse than the next in her hoarse, tuneless voice. She had zero talent or musicality... just her last name. She knew that so she pulled her father out of mothballs and the resulting hideous Something Stupid just about ruined the summer of '66 for me.

Don't even get me started on that subsequent horrible Lee Hazelwood shit. He sounded as bad as she did. Two song butchers for the price of one. Ugh. Total ear assault.

Nancy Sinatra may be a nice woman and good for her if she is. But her "music" will always be an instant click for me.

"You only live twice" was a very good Bond theme.

I read somewhere that he bought the rights to Boots for Nancy the day she was born.

I don't think he and the son got along.

But as much as Frank hated Bobby Kennedy for busting up the friendship with JFK - the day his son was kidnapped, his first phone call was to Bobby.

I heard they want her to sing with Lou Christie, He has the voice and all the magic it has to bring her back, after all they were no 1 the same time in the 60s Lightning Strikes and Boots. They were both interesting and sexy all at the same time.

I disagree with you R177. Nancy's voice is not annoying at all. On the contrary...

Does anyone of you follow her on Twitter?

I think it's weird that she felt the need to expose herself in Playboy. Such a crass act! And her guest appearance as herself on The Sopranos presented her as a mobster's whore. She obviously has no delusions about being classy.

Lol, yeah, it is weird and i love it R182. It's obvious that if she was normal/ordinary she would never do that. I love all these contradictions in one's character. She seems very well-mannered and kind when when she speaks her mind, and then she appears in such a magazine, touching herself. I love people's complexity. It really amuses me.

Why all the children of Frank was unlucky in their marriages? I mean, ok, maybe Nancy's second marriage could have lasted, but her husband died. Why didn't she marry after that? Did she date anybody after the demise of her husband?

By the way, does anyone of you know Frank's public opinion about Nancy's appearance in Playboy?

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She's fabulous, and always has been fabulous. Why would op start such a nasty thread? The level of idiocy here is astounding lately.

I don't understand how people can go on a gay forum (of all places) and speak ill of Nancy Sinatra.

It's just not done.

Nancy Sinatra, Sr. is still alive and well at age 97.

From Burns and Allen (radio):

Gracie: You? You think you're a better singer than my George?

Frank Sinatra: Well I've never heard George sing but...Yes.

R189, Frank was so full of himself. That's not news. At least, he was talented indeed. Many people are so full of themselves and they have no talent at all.

Recently called a great singer by none other than Bob Dylan. Strange, strange, strange.

R191, what is strange in that?

Liza and Nancy, i love them both!

I just know a couple of her songs and they sound ok. People knocked her because of the nepotism thing but there are so many nepotism cases, maybe more now.

I know nothing of her, or anything else she sings, but merely for "These Boots Are Made For Walking" I will adore her forever.

Why?

Famous father and the #1 song of 1966 (suck it Beatles!)

Add Toni Basil and Teri Garr as backup dancers and you've got a permanent place in pop culture history.

I never noticed those two R195. I recognize Garr but which is one Toni Basil?

I always forget Garr was a dancer first. They always covered up her legs and figure on tv and movies later on,

Not that I believe it, but Rex agreed once said of her that "no matter how much of her father's money she uses on herself she still looks like a pizza waitress."

Nancy Sinatra is a FANTASTIC person.

I love her. She is a very kind and loving woman, a real gem, and she has been VERY generous to the poor while never broadcasting her contributions.

And she is still HAWT.

Nancy Sinatra was a victim of bullying at her school. Oh, the mean girls were out in full-force and on her cute little ass.

However, she did not falter from her elegant ethics and remained a kind, loving, and sensitive individual.

I have it on VERY good authority that Nancy Sinatra went out of her way to make the poor girls at her school feel wanted and included.

I love her so much!

I just heard lou christie will be in palm springs soon and he and nancy will be with him. Is there more going on with these two italian stars!!! from the 60s. Yes so I've heard

Nancy is a nice woman, not the rich bitch someone with her background and money could be. She is interested in the world around her, and comes off as a people-person.

Nancy follows me on twitter. I assume because I am an Adam Lambert fan and she too is a Lambert-lover.

That's very nice. However, are we sure that it is indeed Nancy Sinatra that tweets and not one of her assistants? Just saying... Whenever i see famous people to tweet, i always think of that.

She has a few good tunes! 'Sugar Town' is a jam and her Bond song is very sweet. It was a fun time to be a singer / starlet, i'd have taken the nepotism route too!

Nancy Sinatra belongs in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.

...as does Cher!

What the hell is wrong with the Hall of Fame board of directors?!

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R201, you should tell Nancy that it would be FANTASTIC if she could cooperate with Alain Whyte for her next album!

Don't you agree that the way she sang 'Let Me Kiss You', was LOVELY? This song suited her voice perfectly. I believe that Alain Whyte's songs in general suit Nancy's voice. It would be brilliant if these two could work together.

Actually, i also think that Boz Boorer and Jesse Tobias should write songs for her, their music becomes her. It's a crime that these gifted people don't write songs for NANCY SINATRA. It would be pure magic, this cooperation....

I've only heard good about her as a person, and I like her work, but even I could have had a hit if backed by The Wrecking Crew.

Why Nancy cannot accept that Ronan Farrow could be indeed her brother? After all, Ronan looks a lot like Frank, why all this denial...? Nancy seems nice, but she didn't handle this like a cool lady. It gave me a bad impression.

Lou Christie and Nancy , interesting and HOT!! she knows an Italian.

HBO just did a documentary on her father.

I was surprised they included this pic of him in the pool. You can see his pubes and dick.

Even Nancy can't explain her father's odd attachment to Richard Nixon.

I think Sinatra was attracted to very powerful men. Mafia Dons, Giancana, Nixon. Whatever. He wanted to be seated next to them and be their bud.

[quote] Even Nancy can't explain her father's odd attachment to Richard Nixon.

Didn't the documentary make the point that he was trying to get back at the Kennedys?

It also said he didn't really like Nixon -- he liked Spiro Agnew.

Great judge of character.

That's what Harry Belafonte claimed in the documentary. But that's bullshit. The Kennedy's were dead. Sinatra just wanted to be close to a President again. Sold his soul once again.

She had a wonderfully wistful and melancholic singing voice, unlike foghorns like Streisand, Houston, Mariah, etc. I can't imagine "You Only Live Twice" or "These Boots ... " being sung by somebody else. Also, she and Lee Hazelwood were the coolest singing duo ever.

Was Lee Hazlewood in love with Nancy?

Sinatra was the man of the hour. We wanted to be seen with him.

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Nancy Sinatra was never beautiful, but she was always very sexy. Yes, Lee wanted to screw her, if you ask me.

Does this really have to be explained?

"Some Velvet Morning" remains so eerie, spooky, hip...

Her singing is flat as hell.