These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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Lee Hazlewood (9 July 1929 – 4 August 2007) was an American country singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with Duane Eddy during the late fifties and Nancy Sinatra in the sixties. Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./U.K. #1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine". He also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is Some Velvet Morning, a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. Hazlewood performed that song along with "Jackson" and "See the Little Children" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. He wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents" for the 1966 spy-spoof film. Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He also wrote "Houston", a 1965 U.S. hit recorded by Dean Martin. This Town, a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1969 Greatest Hits album, was written by Hazlewood.
Discography
1960s-1970s
- 1963 — Trouble Is a Lonesome Town
- 1964 — N.S.V.I.P.
- 1965 — Friday's Child
- 1966 — The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood
- 1967 — Lee Hazlewoodism Its Cause and Cure
- 1968 — Nancy and Lee — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra
- 1968 — Something Special
- 1968 — Love and Other Crimes
- 1969 — The Cowboy and the Lady — a collaboration with Ann Margret.
- 1969 — Forty
- 1970 — Cowboy in Sweden — recorded in Sweden
- 1971 — Requiem for an Almost Lady
- 1972 — Nancy and Lee Again — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra
- 1972 — 13
- 1973 — I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- 1973 — Poet, Fool or Bum
- 1974 — The Stockholm Kid Live at Berns
- 1975 — A House Safe for Tigers
- 1976 — 20th Century Lee
- 1977 — Movin' On
- 1977 — Back on the Street Again
1990s-2000s
- 1993 — Gypsies & Indians — a collaboration with Anna Hanski
- 1999 — Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! & Me...
- 2002 — For Every Solution There's a Problem
- 2002 — For Every Question There's an Answer — interview CD
- 2002 — Bootleg Dreams & Counterfeit Demos
- 2003 — Lycanthrope Tour/Europe 2002
- 2004 — Nancy & Lee 3 — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra
- 2006 — Cake or Death
