Songwriter Lee Hazlewood dies at 78

[tuvor]

Source: AP

LAS VEGAS - Lee Hazlewood, a singer and songwriter best known for writing and producing "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" for Nancy Sinatra, has died. He was 78.

Barton Lee Hazlewood died at his home in Henderson of kidney cancer on Saturday evening, the Clark County coroner's office said.

Hazlewood was most famous for his work with the daughter of Frank Sinatra, including writing and producing such hits as "Sugartown" and "Some Velvet Morning." He also produced "Something Stupid," a duet Nancy recorded with her father in 1967.

He also produced for Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons, and performed on a number of solo albums and with Nancy Sinatra in three "Nancy & Lee" albums.

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[villager]

1. Don't forget "Summer Wine" and his duet on "Jackson!"

n/t

[regnaD kciN]

4. That just came up on a thread a few weeks ago...

...based on this remake of "Summer Wine" by Ville Valo & Natalia Avelon.

"Some Velvet Morning" was one of the most wonderfully weird songs of the '60s.

[Hardrada]

5. We used to get stoned/bombed on campus and sang that

walking past the women's dorms where the coeds would giggle at us.

[Berry Cool]

8. "Jackson"--one of my iPod songs.

"We got married in a fever
Hotter 'n' a pepper sprout
We been talkin' 'bout Jackson
Ever since the fire went out"

Jackson...Jackson...Jackson...Jackson...

RIP, Lee. :cry:

[devilgrrl]

13. I've got 'Some Velvet Morning' 'Jackson' and 'Lady Bird'...

:P

RIP indeed :-(

[EST]

2. The great scythe-sweeping ever closer.

[madfloridian]

3. Great album...samples.

Love this album with Nancy Sinatra.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Nancy-Sinatra-And-Lee-Hazlewood-Nancy-Lee-MP3-Download/10914904.html

Previews free.

[tuvor]

6. Funny you should mention emusic.

I just started subscribing last month. Great site if you don't like to be spoonfed.

In fact, it was a post on their message board where I first heard of Mr. Hazelwood's passing.

[madfloridian]

11. .

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[guruoo]

7. The absolute last song you'd ever want to have wake you up from

a hangover.
Yes, this is THAT song!

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=5154026

[gratuitous]

14. Watched the video

Okay, I'll put that in the category of Freaky and Deaky.

Odd how some of these songs never quite make it to movie soundtracks and thus perpetuate themselves, isn't it? There were quite a number of interesting songs from the 60s and early 70s that weren't the Beatles or Creedence (not that there's anything wrong with many of the ones that survived), and this could be one of them.

I remember visiting some friends in Chicago several years ago, and being treated to a basement session by a group called the Art Thieves. I think they were re-visiting an old early haunt of theirs for one night only, as they were clearly a bit too "big" for the venue, but their covers of all kinds of old 60s stuff, TV jingles and themes, made me want to traipse through their vinyl collection to revisit all those K-Tel memories. And if you don't remember K-Tel compilation records, they were something else, indeed.

[Javaman]

9. These Boots Were Made For Walking

You keep saying you've got something for me.
something you call love, but confess.
You've been messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin'
and now someone else is gettin' all your best.


These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.


You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin' when you oughta be changin'.
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet.


These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.


You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin
and you keep thinkin' that you´ll never get burnt.
Ha! I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah
and what he know you ain't HAD time to learn.


Are you ready boots? Start walkin'!

[kskiska]

10. The Feds played that at Waco

over and over and over, to drive Koresh crazy.

[madfloridian]

12. You Tube 1968...After Six

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rXLw9IwDnqc

[Vidar]

15. RIP Lee.