Songwriter, producer, singer, and all-around musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood died Saturday, August 4, in Henderson, Nevada, after a three-year battle with terminal renal cancer. He was 78.
Hazlewood was best known as a producer, songwriter, and sometimes duet partner of Nancy Sinatra. He wrote the smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” and recorded two full albums with Sinatra, 1968’s Nancy & Lee and 1972’s Nancy & Lee Again. Their most famous collaboration, though, was the 1967 single “Some Velvet Morning”, which reached #26 on Billboard pop chart but has had a lasting impact through scores of cover versions by a wide variety of artists, including Vanilla Fudge, Primal Scream & Kate Moss, Lydia Lunch, My Dying Bride, Entombed, Slowdive, and Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo.
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MP3: Primal Scream featuring Kate Moss - “Some Velvet Morning”
August 6th, 2007 at 8:50 am
This was all over the news here in Sweden. They showed a bunch of cool clips of him singing about the adress he lived on while here in the 70’s, plus a duett where a woman sang in Swedish and Lee repeated her lines in spoken english.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Man, time flies because I had no idea he was that old. It’s a shame because he had a very, very distinctive voice.