Nancy Sinatra - Boots

1995 reissue on Sundazed of her 1966 debut for Reprise with four single sides as bonus tracks: the B-sides 'The City Never Sleeps At Night' & 'Leave My Dog Alone', the A-side 'In Our Time' and 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'' (Mono Single Version). 'Boots', which reached #5 in the U.S., alsofeatures the #1 smash 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'' & the chart hit 'So Long, Babe'. Also featured here is the original cover art. 15 tracks total. Standard jewel case. Album Description

These Boots were made for walking

We are doing a retirement party for our pastor and the theme is These Boots Were Made for Walking! All decorations are red shoes as table decorations. This was perfect fit for us! June 27, 2008

Sparkling trash

Here's a special piece of the Sixties - starting with the delicious ridiculous cover shot. Yeh, the tunes sound just like NS looks. Not every track works - there's obvious haste and filler - but the ones that do click are about the best kitten-with-a-whip kitsch ever made. Highlights include the bossa nova take on "As Tears Go By," a gender-bending "Run For Your Life," a pouting, jaunty "Flowers On The Wall," the 'you've come a long way, baby' folk-rock anthem-wannabe "In Our Time," the eternally outre title track ... and, best of all, the drop-dead hepest Fab cover of all time, "Day Tripper," overstuffed with Herb Alpert brass, bachelor pad bongos, Bacharach/007 'girly' backing vocals, 'boots' stalking bass, slamming drums and jangle guitar - plus NS really leanin' into it. Ice hot, babycakes! December 25, 2006

Boots by Nancy Somatra

I bought this for our grand daughter who did a dance routine to it. She is seven years old and really enjoyed the CD. This also brought back memories for us. July 10, 2006

MORE RAW ANIMAL SEXUALITY IN A TWINKLE OF HER EYE

There are times I honestly envy people younger than myself. This is not one of them. You can have your Witless Spears and Christina Uglulara. This is the real thing. Nancy Sinatra may just appear like some girl trading off her Daddy's fame; but there was more raw, animal sexuality in a twinkle of her eye than Madonna and all her wanna-be's put together. Yeah, back in the sixties I knew what sex was and I had crushes on several girls in high school; but it was Nancy Sinatra that awoken the lustful sexual hunger in me. I will never forget it. Nancy strutting toward the camera in her mini-skirt and go-go boots with several girl dancers behind her and she sang in a smoky knowing voice that made me want her more the more she pushed me away.

I also don't want to hear any more of this B.S. about how Yoko Ono opened up rock `n' roll for other women. Nancy Sinatra knew more about rock than Ms. Lennon ever would know and showed other women how it was done while Yoko was still a pampered co-ed at Sarah Lawrence. Joni Mitchell, Melanie and an all female band called Fanny all should be considered female rock pioneers long before Ono ever comes up. But at the top of the list should be Nancy Sinatra along few others.

Admittedly, Nancy's his first album, BOOTS, doesn't appear all that promising-basically a lot of covers and several songs by an unknown by the name of Lee Hazelwood. But it was Lee Hazelwood that was the catalyst that brought out the warrior princess in Ms. Sinatra. First, he told her to drop her voice from her school-choir soprano to whisky tinged alto that ignited rivers of testosterone. While most of the covers were well known in their time, even with these Nancy made them interesting all over again. But it was the Hazelwood songs that gave Nancy the musky scent of mystery that she would be remembered for. They positively haunted me as I made my way through my school day up into the last moments of sleepy consciousness.

Later, Nancy would record an album called SUGAR in which she appeared in an amber-wheat field in pink bikini with her left thumb hooked in the side pulling her bottom down just so to be still decent enough and yet more than a little suggestive. That album sold millions just on the basis of that photograph alone. But Nancy was no bimbo and only a fool would say so. Years later, a more mature Nancy Sinatra would do a nude layout for Playboy magazine that caused quite a bit of notoriety. One can only imagine what it would have done to all us young boys and men if she had done a similar layout in the late sixties.

These days, many would discount Ms. Sinatra's career for her open sex appeal. But it was all apart of the package that was Nancy. Her voice dripped in carnal desire-it was inescapable. Many women rockers would later practically give you a guidebook to their sex lives. But, much like Hitchcock who made you think you saw more than you actually did, Nancy let you feel you had "known" her better than you really had. I am happy this music is finally available to us again.
April 2, 2006

Nancy Boots

Great CD, sounds even better than the LP I can remember as a teenager. October 25, 2005

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