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1. These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
2. Lightening's Girl
3. How Does That Grab You Darlin'?
4. Good Time Girl
5. You Only Live Twice
6. The Last Of The Secret Agents
7. This Town
8. So Long Babe
9. Sorry 'Bout That
10. Sugar Town
11. Friday's Child
12. Love Eyes
13. Drummer Man
14. Something Stupid
15. Jackson
16. Did You Ever?
17. Summer Wine
18. Lady Bird
19. Some Velvet Morning
20. Sand
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5.0 out of 5 stars How does this Nancy Sinatra collection grab ya, darlin'?, 16 Nov 2002

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This review is from: Lightning's Girl (Audio CD)

When my father was stationed in Japan in the late Sixties we joined him well before all of our belongings. With a new home and a new school in a new country, the only sense of place was Armed Forces radio. Every time "Some Velvet Morning" played I would feel better. To this day, listening to Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood sing that song takes me back to that time and how I felt. Besides, my mom was a big Frank Sinatra fan so I could cause trouble by saying at least there was one person in that family who could sing and it was not old blue eyes (Mea culpa. I was young. It was the Sixties. She made me wear a crew cut). My father made reel-to-reel tapes of all of Nancy's albums but they are long gone. Now, all of those albums are available on CD. But for many of you having one Nancy Sinatra CD is going to be enough and in that case "Lightning's Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971" is the one you should pick up. This has everything that was on "Nancy Sinatra: The Hit Years" but another eight songs, so this is an easy call to make. However, I have never thought of "Lightning's Girl" as being a definitive Nancy Sinatra song as far as being the title for the collection.

"Lightning's Girl" has all of your favorite Nancy Sinatra songs and probably one or two songs that might be new to you but that you may well enjoy. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," "The Last of the Secret Agents," "Sugar Town," and "You Only Live Twice," are included. In addition to "Some Velvet Morning" there are nine other duets with Lee Hazelwood, the best of which are "Summer Wine," "Jackson" and "Lady Bird." Of course, there is also "Somethin' Stupid," sung with daddy (in only two takes). The liner notes are wrong the lady herself and, of course, the cover provides the obligatory shot of Nancy in white go-go boots. I think these songs hold up a lot better than a lot of the other stuff I listened to back then in Japan, as does Nancy herself as we all found out a few years ago in a revealing pictorial in a noted gentleman's publication.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best compilation of Nancy's music, 4 April 2003

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Nancy made many excellent records, as this compilation shows. All the essential tracks are here, including These boots are made for walking, an international number one hit, How does that grab you darling and Sugar town. Among Nancy's other solo tracks are a couple of James Bond songs, You only live twice and The last of the secret agents.

Nancy also had several big hits via duets with Lee Hazelwood. Did you ever was a British hit, while Summer wine, Jackson and Some velvet morning were American hits. Ladybird was a hit in both countries. Among their other duets, Down from Dover is a cover of an early Dolly Parton song, which Dolly herself re-recorded for her Little sparrow album.

Nancy's most famous duet is the one she did with her father, Something stupid. Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman recently revived this song in the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, bringing the song to a whole new generation of listeners.

This is a great introduction to her music, but does not display the full range of her talent - for example, she did a superb country album (Country my way) which is not represented on this collection. Even so, if you only ever buy one Nancy Sinatra collection, this is the one to choose.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars For Content; Three For Mastering, 2 July 2003

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This is easily the most comprehensive single-cd retrospective of Nancy's work to emerge yet, running her full gamut of musical styles. They're all covered: The gleeful verbal spankings of "Boots" and "Sorry 'bout That," the surprisingly bluesy "Friday's Child," the catchy country of "Jackson" and "Hooks and Ladder," and the haunting beauty of "Summer Wine" and "Some Velvet Morning"--both with Lee Hazlewood. The latter of those is the epitome of a haunting, atmospheric, ethereal ballad that roams your head for awhile after you hear it: I loved it when it came out in the winter of 1968, and it still blows me away to this day! I was a bit disappointed, however, in some of the mastering: Particularly during the section highlighting Nancy & Lee's duets, tape hiss is quite noticeable--even between the songs (like someone threw on a second-generation reel-to-reel tape and just let it roll.) An older mix of "Summer Wine" is used, with the vocals all the way to one stereo channel and the song faded out where the old 45 was faded. The far superior mix, also running almost a half-minute longer, can be found on "Fairy Tales & Fantasies." (I had hoped to be able to sell that cd--given that ten of its fifteen tracks are included here--but after hearing the above example and the mediocre mastering on the other N&L tracks, believe I'd be wise to hold onto it.) But hey, don't let me talk you out of buying this cd if you want a great Nancy comp: This far eclipses Rhino's best-of from several years back--which only had 18 tracks while this boasts 26 (with only one stinker in the bunch, "Drummer Man." And certainly, "You Only Live Twice" stands shoulder-to-shoulder with "Goldfinger" as the crown jewels of the Bond movie themes. Finally, the price is quite reasonable for an import with the amount of music contained here. So by all means, buy this cd--but you also might want to get "Fairy Tales & Fantasies" to get the best available sound on the N&L duets.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive, 29 Sep 2002

By R. Riis "rriis" - Published on Amazon.com

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More tracks than the Rhino "Greatest Hits" CD and liner notes by Nancy herself. This is the definitive Nancy Sinatra CD retrospective.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Most Complete...but..., 27 Aug 2008

By BuzzGuy - Published on Amazon.com

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At 26 tracks, this is a very complete overview of Nancy's work. It also puts "Summer Wine", "Sand", and "Some Velvet Morning" in one place, a distinct advantage over other Nancy discs.

Nancy wasn't the best singer, dancer, or actress, but she had a crafty eye for suitable material and teachability. "Friday's Child" is one of my favorite solo songs of hers. In singing it, she effectively has to negate her own sexiness to bring the tale across. Taking chances on such songs was the proof that she could and did grow artistically.

The Nancy and Lee duets comprise tracks 15-24. I can't add much new to what's already been said about the most celebrated duets. Suffice it to say, "Summer Wine", "Some Velvet Morning", and "Sand" are about as baroque and bizarre as pop music ever got.

The inclusion of a later Nancy/Lee duet, "Down From Dover" shows just how much Nancy had learned since "Boots". This time, Lee is in the predatory role, singing in an unusually low register, even for him. Nancy gives just the right amount of theatrics to the heroine of the song. What's unique about this number is that Nancy and Lee have taken a highly acclaimed songwriter, Dolly Parton, and fitted one of her darkest compositions into their style with results that make all three of them look good. This ain't bubblegum, folks.

The problem with this disc is the sound. Nobody has surpassed Rhino's "Nancy Sinatra The Hit Years", released in 1986. Though you'll miss "Sand" and "Down From Dover" on Rhino's release, most everything else of importance is there.

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