Friday, June 08, 2007
Nancy Sinatra
I get my Paris Hilton updates at Blanton's & Ashton's, since DBK switched to writing about the really important news when Democrats decided they were given control of Ccngress in order to support the Iraq War.
But it's Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. He's the megalomaniac architect who designed the most uncomfortable major art exhibition space in New York, The Guggenheim Museum. A skateboard punk's dream, though.
Also Nancy Sinatra's birthday. I have only praise for the woman who recorded the classics These Boots Are Made for Walking, Some Velvet Morning, Sugartown, You Only Live Twice, Lightning's Girl, & Something Stupid; co-starred with Peter Fonda & Bruce Dern in The Wild Angels (Fonda reputedly blowing real pot smoke in her face), & with Elvis in the very watchable Speedway. Plus, she posed for Playboy at age 54, & made a cameo in The Sopranos. It was no small, easy thing for the daughter of Frank to take that signature name & have her own great career. She could have made a couple of lousy vanity records & disappeared.
But it's Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday. He's the megalomaniac architect who designed the most uncomfortable major art exhibition space in New York, The Guggenheim Museum. A skateboard punk's dream, though.
Also Nancy Sinatra's birthday. I have only praise for the woman who recorded the classics These Boots Are Made for Walking, Some Velvet Morning, Sugartown, You Only Live Twice, Lightning's Girl, & Something Stupid; co-starred with Peter Fonda & Bruce Dern in The Wild Angels (Fonda reputedly blowing real pot smoke in her face), & with Elvis in the very watchable Speedway. Plus, she posed for Playboy at age 54, & made a cameo in The Sopranos. It was no small, easy thing for the daughter of Frank to take that signature name & have her own great career. She could have made a couple of lousy vanity records & disappeared.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
"How Does that Grab You Darlin'?" is just a great tune. Nancy just doesn't get the credit she deserves. (Nor Lee Hazelwood.)
Forgot about that one. Credit= $$. Frank Sr. advised Nancy to keep control of the master recordings, & she did. So while her LPs have gone in & out of print on CD, her catalogue hasn't been junked up.
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