Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made for Walkin’

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ is a single from the album Boots (1966). The single charted #1 in US and UK.

Nancy was on the same record label as her famous father, but they were going to drop her because her first few singles flopped. Things changed when they teamed her with producer Lee Hazlewood, who wrote this for her and had her lower her delivery. The first attempt was “So Long Babe,” which was a minor hit and the second was “These Boots are Made For Walkin’.

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Released on February 22, “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” climbed to the summit of the pop chart in a mere four days, and it remains Nancy’s most recognizable song, inspiring a range of covers from Jessica Simpson to Megadeth.

The Wrecking Crew, a group of noted Los Angeles session musicians, served as Nancy’s backing band, with member Chuck Berghofer adding the groovy opening bass line.

Thanks to a company called Color-Sonics, a fashionable video was made for this song showing Nancy with a troupe of dancers performing this song in boots, sweaters, and little else. Color-Sonics made video jukeboxes for bars; you could pop a few quarters into the machine and a film reel would play. Knowing their audience, they commissioned the “Boots” video, which was directed by Robert Sidney, a choreographer who worked on the movies Where the Boys Are and Valley of the Dolls.

Color-Sonics wasn’t around much longer, but the video showed up in a number of documentaries and other entertainment or news programs. The video made its way onto YouTube in 2010, where it garnered well over 100 million views.

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