Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American singer and actress . She had her greatest successes in the 1960s with songs such as These Boots Are Made for Walkin ' and the duets Summer Wine with Lee Hazlewood and Somethin' Stupid with her father Frank Sinatra .
Life
Nancy Sinatra is the daughter of the singer Frank Sinatra and his first wife Nancy Barbato (1917-2018). Her music career began in the early 1960s when she signed with her father's record company, Reprise Records . Her first single in the US was released in 1961 with the title Cuff Links and a Tie Clip . Other less successful publications followed. Sinatra had better luck in Italy in 1962, for example, where Like I Do reached number 2 in the charts .
In her homeland, the tide did not turn until 1965. The acquaintance of singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood , who had previously made his own records relatively unsuccessfully and wrote the hit Houston for Dean Martin , gave Sinatra's career the decisive turn. He also produced the single So Long, Babe , which landed at number 86 on the US charts in 1965, making it her first notable success. The next record, These Boots Are Made for Walkin ' , already became a hit. The song topped the charts in the US, Great Britain and Germany in early 1966. Sinatra's first album was released in 1966 under the title Boots , Hazlewood had taken over the entire production. In addition to his compositions, the work also includes some cover versions , including Day Tripper by the Beatles , It Ain't Me Babe by Bob Dylan , As Tears Go By by the Rolling Stones and Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers . Billy Strange was responsible for the lavishly orchestrated arrangements , who repeatedly worked for Sinatra in the following years and, especially in combination with the idiosyncratic Hazlewood compositions, achieved top performances. For Boots , album and single, Sinatra was able to receive a gold record each in the USA.
In the same year the successful follow-up album How Does That Grab You? , from which the single How Does That Grab You, Darlin '? was decoupled. The LP featured a duet with Hazlewood ( Sand ) for the first time, as well as a cover version of Cher's hit Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) , which at the time hardly caused a stir. It was not until 2003, when director Quentin Tarantino chose the version of Sinatra for his film Kill Bill - Volume 1 , that Strange's idiosyncratic title became known to a wider public. In 1966 she had three more hits with Friday's Child , In Our Time and, above all, Sugar Town . At the end of the year, a third, also successful album called Nancy In London was released , which contained a few cover versions of successful British singers, including This Little Bird by Marianne Faithfull and Wishin 'and Hopin' by Dusty Springfield , but also On Broadway by the Drifters .
The cover photo of her fifth studio album Sugar (1967) was censored in Boston ( Banned in Boston ) because Sinatra only wore a pink bikini on it. The album contains many American classics, including My Buddy , first published in 1922, Let's Fall in Love (1933) made famous by Eddy Duchin , Irving Berlin's What'll I Do (1923) and Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah) ( 1924) by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen .
In 1967 a duet by Sinatra and Hazlewood was in the international charts for the first time: Summer Wine developed into one of the most famous recordings of the two. Somethin 'Stupid , a duet with her father , was also created in 1967 . For the two Sinatras, the song was a great success, climbing to the top of the charts in Great Britain and the USA. In the same year she was asked to sing the theme song You Only Live Twice for the film James Bond 007 - You Only Live Twice . The song also developed into a world hit.
In the following months it was mainly the duets with Hazlewood with which Sinatra was able to record great success. The joint album Nancy & Lee (1968) sold well and received good reviews. It includes hits like Jackson , Lady Bird and Some Velvet Morning , which had recently appeared on Sinatra's album Movin 'With Nancy (1968). The song was notable in that it was influenced by the complex psychedelic pop of the 1960s and had difficult-to-interpret lyrics. Other duets by Sinatra and Hazlewood tend more towards beat or country music .
At this point, Sinatra had already tried several times as an actress: In addition to a few insignificant television roles, the box office successes Marriage on the Rocks (1965) with her father and Dean Martin and Speedway (1968) with Elvis Presley were remembered. Roger Corman , known as a horror specialist , shot Die wilden Engel (1966) with her in 1966 - also a success at the box office. Sinatra commented on the film in 2003 after a re-screening in Los Angeles : "With this film my hopeful film career began and ended at the same time."
Her singing career had also passed its zenith at the end of 1968: Although she was still able to record medium hits ( 100 Years , Happy , Good Time Girl ) on a regular basis , she did not want to achieve greater success, at least in the USA. With Drummer Man , Sinatra left the American singles charts at number 98 in 1969. She had a little more luck in Europe: Together with Dean Martin, she sang the piece Things , which was a big hit in Norway, for example (2nd place). In 1970, father and daughter Sinatra recorded two more duets, Life Is a Trippy Thing and Feelin 'Kinda Sunday , of which only the second title made it to the easy-listening charts. In 1995, at the age of 54, she posed naked for the May issue of Playboy .
Sinatra was married to the musician Tommy Sands from 1960 to 1965 and from 1970 to his death in 1985 with the choreographer Hugh Lambert. There are two daughters from his marriage to Lambert.
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Studio albums
- 1966: Boots (US:
gold) - 1966: How Does That Grab You?
- 1966: Nancy In London
- 1967: Country, My Way
- 1967: Sugar
- 1968: Movin 'With Nancy (soundtrack album for the TV special of the same name)
- 1969: Nancy
- 1973: Woman
- 2004: Nancy Sinatra
- 2013: Shifting Gears
Collaborations
- 1968: Nancy & Lee (with Lee Hazlewood, US:gold)
- 1968: The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas (with Frank, Frank Jr. and Tina Sinatra)
- 1972: Nancy & Lee Again (aka Did You Ever? ) (With Lee Hazlewood)
- 1981: Mel & Nancy (with Mel Tillis )
- 2004: Nancy & Lee 3 (with Lee Hazlewood)
Compilations
- 1970: Nancy's Greatest Hits
- 1971: This Is Nancy Sinatra
- 1986: The Hit Years
- 1989: Greatest Hits
- 1995: One More Time
- 1998: Sheet Music
- 1999: How Does It Feel?
- 2002: California Girl
- 2004: The Very Best of Nancy Sinatra
- 2006: The Essential Nancy Sinatra
Filmography (selection)
- 1965: ... because nobody is without guilt (The Oscar)
- 1966: The Wild Angels (The Wild Angels)
- 1968: Speedway
- 2007: The Sopranos ( The Sopranos , TV series)
Web links
- Nancy Sinatra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nancy Sinatra, first wife of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101 , on cnn.com, July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on October 20, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access).
- ^ Recording Industry Association of America
- ↑ Norwegian Charts
- ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit balance sheet - German chart singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 446 .
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts UK Charts Albums US
- ↑ Charts Singles US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK
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| SURNAME | Sinatra, Nancy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinatra, Nancy Sandra (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , New Jersey |