Nancy Sinatra: Boots CD Track Listing

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Nancy Sinatra Boots (1966)
Originally released as Reprise RS-6202 in 1966 except tracks 12-15\nCD Edition Released February 21, 1995 or March 1995\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Unexceptional debut album built around "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and covers of contemporary rock and pop hits, with a couple of other Lee Hazlewood songs. The CD reissue adds a few rare early single tracks (all penned by Hazlewood) as bonus cuts, as well as the mono single version of "Boots." -- Richie Unterberger\n\nAmazon.com Album Description\n1995 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. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nAre you ready, boots?, June 9, 2004\nReviewer: Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) \nNancy Sinatra was signed to Reprise Records mainly because her father owned the record label. After a whopping eleven flop singles, Nancy was given "one more chance", with the understanding that she would be dropped by the label if her next record didn't sell. Having nothing to lose, she hooked up with maverick producer/songwriter Lee Hazlewood at her next recording session. The resulting record, "So Long, Babe", wasn't a major hit, but it sold enough copies to save Nancy's job. Then the next record that Lee cooked up for Nancy, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", was a major smash and turned her career around. What comes next after a Number One hit single? An album, of course! Nancy first album was centered around that hit (and the sexy cover didn't hurt sales, either). I guess Lee was a little short on material, because over half the album was covers of other people's hits. Artists covered include The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Knickerbockers and The Statler Brothers. You know, all the usual suspects. The covers are actually pretty fun, thanks to interesting arrangements by Hazlewood. The CD includes four bonus tracks. "The City Never Sleeps at Night" was the b-side of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". "In Our Time" was a relatively unsuccessful single, and "Leave My Dog Alone" was it's b-side. The mono single version of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" closes out the album. Recommended to all of Nancy's fans.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nOne of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!, July 2, 2002\nReviewer: Daniel J. Hamlow (Farmington, NM USA) \nIn 1995, when Sundazed Records decided to reissue Nancy Sinatra's first four albums, it took me a few hours to search for my eyeballs, which had fallen out of my sockets in amazement. After all, I only had The Hit Years, which I somehow felt didn't do her justice. My assessment turned out accurate when I bought those first four albums. Of the four, Boots wins first place, though two others come very close. Maybe it's because Boots is more pop before she veered off into the easy listening direction with Nancy In London and Sugar, not that I minded that. The inner liner notes and the pictures of her on the CDs were added bonuses.\nShe's quite the vagabond in "I Move Around," having moved to California, New York, and other places. And her classic signature tune, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" is included twice in here, once in a stereo version, the other in the original mono single version. This is definitely on my Top 100 songs list. Besides, with this song being covered by the likes of Geri Halliwell, KMFDM, Megadeth, and Sam Phillips, I can't be wrong on how classic this is.\n\nI find her covering more than just one cover song per album reminiscent to what Bonnie Tyler did on her early albums, and I didn't mind that. She covers two Beatles songs: "Day Tripper" and "Run For Your Life," Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" from Another Side, The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall," and the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By." All are done admirably, especially the Stones song.\n\n"Flowers On The Wall" is a cocooners' delight. In addition to the counting flowers, she plays solitaire with 51 cards, smokes cigarettes and watches Captain Kangaroo. I can dig it--if I had my way, I wouldn't want to go outside anyway.\n\n"If He'd Love Me" shows how well Nancy can sing a ballad as well as upbeat pop. "Leave My Dog Alone" is an open statement against narrow-minded people who believe in conformity in the community or society. The people got to her by harassing her pets. First her dog: "All he ever did was wag his tail, people, why did you have to throw my dog in jail." Then her cat: "He never said not a bad word, no not him. Why'd you throw him in the river, you know he can't swim." The bottom message to the people is: "Let me be the way I wanna be." You tell'em, Nance!\n\nOK, what else? "In Our Time" is a time capsule update of what's hip and what wasn't hip anymore. Girls became smokers "Some take trips but never move" is clearly a reference to the drug culture. The line I like was "Mickey Mouse ain't no kid/since he read the wizard of id/He's trying to figure out what it did." "If you're 20, then you're old." 20? Yeesh!\n\nI enjoy her stuff, so I don't have to worry about those boots walking all over me.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nSolid first outing proves to be a kitsch classic, December 18, 1999\nReviewer: Jared Stearns (Boston, MA)\nNancy Sinatra's freshman effort, "Boots" (1966) was naturally built around her mega-hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." Yet, despite a strong '60s sound, the album lacks a certain irresistable charm Nancy developed on her other albums. The mellow cover of the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By" starts off the collection, but is a bit of a downer. Following is the "femme-fatale" version of the Beatles' "Day Tripper." The song is fun, but the album doesn't officially "start" until the third tune "I Move Around." It is here that Nancy grasps your eardrums and pleasures you, musically, as only she can. The cover of the Turtles' "It Ain't Me Babe" (written by Bob Dylan) is wonderful and this is followed by "These Boots," which I cannot say enough good things about. The organ-ridden "In My Room" is a worthy and commendable follow-up, but "Lies," the ensuing track sounds like a bunch of girls screaming (which, in essence, it is). "So Long, Babe," the subsequent track is Nancy at her mellow, groovy best and "If He'd Love Me" also demonstrates (as did "In My Room") Nancy's underrated vocal abilities. "Flowers On the Wall" is pure kitsch and "Run For Your Life" greatly exemplifies the "tough-girl" mode we all know and love. Perhaps the lack of including more Hazlewood-penned songs hampers this album critically. Aside from what should have been a more invigorating album, Nancy's solid vocals and brassy, rousing arrangements make up for the lack of preeminent delectation. It's a direct time-warp to the 1960s so you might as well enjoy the ride!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nFirst outting, May 16, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nIts not surprising Nancy Sinatra's first and best-known album is not her best. The songs included here were an obvious attempt to cash in on the "Boots" phenomenon. Nancy shines, the best she can, on material that made others famous. No surprises here, just cutting vocals of mediocre songs.\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nLee Hazlewood, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nReissue producer: Bob Irwin.\nOriginally released on Reprise (6202). Includes liner notes by Stan Cornyn and Nancy Sinatra.\nProducer: Lee Hazlewood.\n\n"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," with its sinister descending bass run, had made Nancy Sinatra an instant icon of cool, and the leather outfit she wore on the sleeve of the concurrent album cemented her image as a leather booted, mini-skirted cookie. Along with her signature tune, heard here in both stereo album and mono single mixes, she essays several songs by her producer/Svengali Lee Hazlewood, as well as a bunch of then-current hits, as was common practice at the time.\n\nHighlights include a bossa nova version of Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By" (with unsettlingly sophisticated jazz chording), a take on the Knickerbockers' "Lies" that nixes the song's Beatles sound-alike quality in favor of bizarre helium-voiced chorus vocals, and a horn-driven big band runthrough of the Fab Four's "Day Tripper." BOOTS is a quintessential '60s time capsule.
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