- Audio Cassette (17 Oct 1990)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Rhino / Wea
- ASIN: B0000032CM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' |
| 2. So Long, Babe |
| 3. How Does That Grab You, Darlin'? |
| 4. Last of the Secret Agents |
| 5. Friday's Child |
| 6. Sugar Town |
| 7. Love Eyes |
| 8. Somethin' Stupid - Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra |
| 9. You Only Live Twice |
| 10. Lightning's Girl |
| 11. Tony Rome |
| 12. 100 Years |
| 13. Good Time Girl |
| 14. Hook and Ladder |
Product Description
Product Description
The recording career of Frank's kid Nancy could have easily sunk without a trace, but producer/songwriter Lee Hazlewood had a vision for Nancy, which he was able to capture on audio tape time and time again. He created a persona of a tough, sexy chick who sang like a 16-year-old girl at the end of an affair with a 40-year-old man. Her first album, Boots, subtitled "Nancy Sinatra sings the facts of love and other lessons in love" contained the classic "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". Other highlights included "As Tears Go By", performed as a soft shuffling bossa nova, and a swinging version of "Day Tripper".This CD reissue includes three extra tracks not on the original release--"The City Never Sleeps At Night", "Leave My Dog Alone" and the original single pressing of "Boots". --F.B.Hawkes
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Now that "Boots" has been reissued on CD I am surprised to learn that in the later Sixties when my father went to the base tape club and made copies of all of Nancy Sinatra's albums on a reel-to-reel tape for me that he recorded Side 2 first. Of all of her albums this was the one I most wanted to get on CD because I have always remembered that tape (and this album) starting off with "In My Room." That particular song was not collected on any of the Nancy Sinatra hits collections (both of which are excellent), so it was the one song in her repertoire that I most wanted to get a hold of; and here it is track 6 instead of track 1. Just another cherished illusion of childhood going down the drain.
When you look over the songs on this album it is clear that for her debut album Nancy Sinatra was trying to cover a wide range of Sixties rock 'n' roll. She starts with the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By" and "Day Tripper" by the Beatles," and even manages to cover Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" and toss in a little country & western with "Flowers on the Wall." The first of that particular quartet is the best, but her reputation ended up being made by a couple of the original songs on the album, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "So Long Babe." The four bonus tracks are certainly a plus (worth another half star or so for the rating), but I did not need them to convince me I wanted this album to listen to "In My Room"....down at the end of the hallway...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Of all the 60's female vocalists, Nancy Sinatra was surely the grooviest. Her vocal talents were at best average and her range limited but her unlikely partnership with maverick producer/ singer/songwriter Lee Hazelwood resulted in some of the strangest pop of the late 60s and has acheived cult status and respect from contemporary songsmiths like Nick Cave and Morrissey.
On this her debut, released in 1966, there is nothing approaching the genius of 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' which appears twice in both stereo and mono. As with all her 60s albums, the material is dominated by covers with a few Hazelwood originals.
Oddly, the album opens with a cover of Marianne Faithful's 'As Tears Go By', it starts out like a real downer until Hazelwood bravely or foolishly turns it into a lilting Bossa Nova. Where possible, and who could blame him, Hazelwood capitalises on the hit 'These Boots...'. On (The Beatles)'Day Tripper' for instance Hazelwood cheekily throws in the descending bass line of These Boots and (The Beatles)'Run For Your Life' sounds like it was composed for a cage of Go-Go dancers. The Castaway's (Beatlesque) 'Lies' features some cool brass work but Nancy sounds like she's struggling. She's much better on Hazelwood's Dylanesque 'So Long, Babe' and better still is her cover of Joaquin Prieto's dramatic ballad ('El Amor') 'In My Room'. Aided by some wonderful mournful Spanish trumpet, Nancy's vocal is strong and utterly compelling and is one of the album's true standouts.
The bonus tracks, all Hazelwood originals, includes the truly wretched 'Leave My Dog Alone'; 'In Our Time' which sounds like it might have been influenced by Sonny & Cher's 'The Beat Goes On' but is no where near as good and dares to rhyme 'Louvre' with 'Groove.'
There are, it's true, copious amounts of Nancy compilations on the market - most of which are stronger than the individual albums but as is the case you have to buy several of them to get everything you want. The Sundazed re-issues are affordable, include the original album covers and all include bonus tracks, pics and liner notes by the girl herself.
On this her debut, released in 1966, there is nothing approaching the genius of 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' which appears twice in both stereo and mono. As with all her 60s albums, the material is dominated by covers with a few Hazelwood originals.
Oddly, the album opens with a cover of Marianne Faithful's 'As Tears Go By', it starts out like a real downer until Hazelwood bravely or foolishly turns it into a lilting Bossa Nova. Where possible, and who could blame him, Hazelwood capitalises on the hit 'These Boots...'. On (The Beatles)'Day Tripper' for instance Hazelwood cheekily throws in the descending bass line of These Boots and (The Beatles)'Run For Your Life' sounds like it was composed for a cage of Go-Go dancers. The Castaway's (Beatlesque) 'Lies' features some cool brass work but Nancy sounds like she's struggling. She's much better on Hazelwood's Dylanesque 'So Long, Babe' and better still is her cover of Joaquin Prieto's dramatic ballad ('El Amor') 'In My Room'. Aided by some wonderful mournful Spanish trumpet, Nancy's vocal is strong and utterly compelling and is one of the album's true standouts.
The bonus tracks, all Hazelwood originals, includes the truly wretched 'Leave My Dog Alone'; 'In Our Time' which sounds like it might have been influenced by Sonny & Cher's 'The Beat Goes On' but is no where near as good and dares to rhyme 'Louvre' with 'Groove.'
There are, it's true, copious amounts of Nancy compilations on the market - most of which are stronger than the individual albums but as is the case you have to buy several of them to get everything you want. The Sundazed re-issues are affordable, include the original album covers and all include bonus tracks, pics and liner notes by the girl herself.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Are you ready, boots?
9 Jun 2004
Format:Audio CD
Nancy Sinatra was signed to Reprise Records mainly because her father owned the record label. After a whopping eleven flop singles, Nancy was given "one more chance", with the understanding that she would be dropped by the label if her next record didn't sell. Having nothing to lose, she hooked up with maverick producer/songwriter Lee Hazlewood at her next recording session. The resulting record, "So Long, Babe", wasn't a major hit, but it sold enough copies to save Nancy's job. Then the next record that Lee cooked up for Nancy, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", was a major smash and turned her career around. What comes next after a Number One hit single? An album, of course! Nancy first album was centered around that hit (and the sexy cover didn't hurt sales, either). I guess Lee was a little short on material, because over half the album was covers of other people's hits. Artists covered include The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Knickerbockers and The Statler Brothers. You know, all the usual suspects. The covers are actually pretty fun, thanks to interesting arrangements by Hazlewood. The CD includes four bonus tracks. "The City Never Sleeps at Night" was the b-side of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". "In Our Time" was a relatively unsuccessful single, and "Leave My Dog Alone" was it's b-side. The mono single version of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" closes out the album. Recommended to all of Nancy's fans.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!
2 July 2002
Format:Audio CD
In 1995, when Sundazed Records decided to reissue Nancy Sinatra's first four albums, it took me a few hours to search for my eyeballs, which had fallen out of my sockets in amazement. After all, I only had The Hit Years, which I somehow felt didn't do her justice. My assessment turned out accurate when I bought those first four albums. Of the four, Boots wins first place, though two others come very close. Maybe it's because Boots is more pop before she veered off into the easy listening direction with Nancy In London and Sugar, not that I minded that. The inner liner notes and the pictures of her on the CDs were added bonuses.
She's quite the vagabond in "I Move Around," having moved to California, New York, and other places. And her classic signature tune, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" is included twice in here, once in a stereo version, the other in the original mono single version. This is definitely on my Top 100 songs list. Besides, with this song being covered by the likes of Geri Halliwell, KMFDM, Megadeth, and Sam Phillips, I can't be wrong on how classic this is.
I find her covering more than just one cover song per album reminiscent to what Bonnie Tyler did on her early albums, and I didn't mind that. She covers two Beatles songs: "Day Tripper" and "Run For Your Life," Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" from Another Side, The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall," and the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By." All are done admirably, especially the Stones song.
"Flowers On The Wall" is a cocooners' delight. In addition to the counting flowers, she plays solitaire with 51 cards, smokes cigarettes and watches Captain Kangaroo. I can dig it--if I had my way, I wouldn't want to go outside anyway.
"If He'd Love Me" shows how well Nancy can sing a ballad as well as upbeat pop. "Leave My Dog Alone" is an open statement against narrow-minded people who believe in conformity in the community or society. The people got to her by harassing her pets. First her dog: "All he ever did was wag his tail, people, why did you have to throw my dog in jail." Then her cat: "He never said not a bad word, no not him. Why'd you throw him in the river, you know he can't swim." The bottom message to the people is: "Let me be the way I wanna be." You tell'em, Nance!
OK, what else? "In Our Time" is a time capsule update of what's hip and what wasn't hip anymore. Girls became smokers "Some take trips but never move" is clearly a reference to the drug culture. The line I like was "Mickey Mouse ain't no kid/since he read the wizard of id/He's trying to figure out what it did." "If you're 20, then you're old." 20? Yeesh!
I enjoy her stuff, so I don't have to worry about those boots walking all over me.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A masterpiece
5 Feb 2003
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
"These Boots" always seemed like a funny novelty song; so, like many others, I discarded Nancy Sinatra as a one-hit wonder who cashed in on that famous relative. But this album is a pop masterpiece that is totally evocative of its era. It only could have been recorded in 1966. It's a wondrous mishmash of musical currents: loungy bossa nova, bright Memphis horns, David Rose-style bump-and-grind, easy listening choruses, catchy bumblegum pop, and bold Vegas showstopping. And it all works! The mostly forgotten Lee Hazlewood, who produced the album, was a genius who had a finely tuned ear for commercial music. He crafted Nancy's wholly fabricated tough-chick image to ride on top of his brilliant arrangements. This is one of the most listenable albums of the '60s. When it plays I feel I'm cruising down the Sunset Strip in a convertible ogling mini-skirted girls in front of the Whisky Au Go Go.
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