Nancy in London

by Nancy Sinatra

Overview

Nancy Sinatra was on an unstoppable tear in 1966, riding the success of her enormous hit single "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'" (which topped the charts in January of '66) with a series of full-length albums capitalizing on the momentum. Nancy in London was Sinatra's third full-length album released in 1966, again joining forces with producer, songwriter, and occasional duet partner Lee Hazlewood for a set of AM pop tunes with subtle hippie counterculture undercurrents. While then-ubiquitous tunes like "On Broadway" or "Wishin' and Hopin'" may have come across as elevator music fare at the time, the ensuing decades have been kind to this run of Sinatra's work, and Nancy in London is part of an interconnected whole that links in with her first two albums as well as the truckstop dust-covered psychedelic country of the Nancy & Lee albums that followed shortly thereafter. Tracked in three days at London's legendary Pye Studios, the record includes arrangements from the Wrecking Crew's Billy Strange, occasional backing from members of the London Philharmonic, a heavy-handed duet with her father, Frank Sinatra, on the dated ode to getting high on life "Life's a Trippy Thing," and a sultry James Bond spy anthem with "You Only Live Twice." The most engaging moments here come when Nancy and Lee Hazlewood tap into their unique chemistry on the eerie, foreboding country of "Summer Wine," or on the late-night drunken-blues stumble of "Friday's Child." Though in 1966 Nancy in London might have blended in with the rest of the homogenized Top 40 schmaltz of its day, getting past the radio-geared tracks reveals some far more complex, strange, and less accessible material. The combination of easy-listening '60s orchestral pop and subtly demented hipster country makes Nancy in London, as well as the rest of her late-'60s catalog, an interesting thing for deeper music listeners to revisit. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	09/06/2024
Label:	Light In The Attic
UPC:	0826853219105
Rank:	36728

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nancy Sinatra   Primary Artist,Vocals
Lee Hazlewood   Guest Artist,Vocals
Frank Sinatra   Guest Artist,Vocals

Technical Credits

Jerry Leiber   Composer
John Barry   Composer
Linda Laurie   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Lee Hazlewood   Producer,Composer
John D. Loudermilk   Composer
Cynthia Weil   Composer
Sid Jacobson   Composer
Jimmy Krondes   Composer
Estelle Levitt   Composer
Mike Stoller   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Mack Gordon   Composer
Howard Greenfield   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer