nancy Sinatra isn't exactly a legend. Her dad might have been, she has cameo'd in Soprano's which makes her a bit cooler, but lets be honest she'd probably not have made it as big if it wasn't for one man... BUT that man was not her father, Ol' Blue Eyes. It was the pot smoking outlaw cowboy Lee Hazelwood. This gangsters daughter and hippy combo may not have made waves when they first released songs with few hits, but they had a wide ranging influence on some of the bands that and albums that I totally love today.
Some Velvet Morning from Vanishing Point, by Primal Scream featuring Kate Moss being an obvious one, the track is a cover of Hazelwood and Sinatra and although radically different to the original, certainly has its own charm.
Anyone who has listened to any of the Isobel Campbel and mark Lanegan albums without consulting Hazelwood and Sinatra has not found the missing link between modern and classic and thus wont be aware that they are not appreciating the duo for what they really are... a Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra tribute act.
So have a blast of this, I realize I've just been lazily linking hotmail images so I promise to make it slightly more wordy just to bore you further. I was recently on holiday and the cheesy evening entertainment was cheerfully doing covers of all the James Last spectrum of hits, but in the middle of it was a version, albeit a crappy one, of this...
The fact that there are 72 dislikes of this youtube link means that there are at least 72 people on this planet who are total fucking idiots. Now lay back enjoy and click on all the related links apart from the crappy nu metal sweemo cover by the guy from HIM and the girl from Nightwish.
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