Lightning's Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971 [Import]

Nancy Sinatra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1965
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B00006C2PN
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

2. Lightening's Girl

3. How Does That Grab You Darlin'?

4. Good Time Girl

5. You Only Live Twice

6. The Last Of The Secret Agents

7. This Town

8. So Long Babe

9. Sorry 'Bout That

10. Sugar Town

11. Friday's Child

12. Love Eyes

13. Drummer Man

14. Something Stupid

15. Jackson

16. Did You Ever?

17. Summer Wine

18. Lady Bird

19. Some Velvet Morning

20. Sand

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Aussie exclusive compilation for the sex-kitten superstar. Featuring 26 tracks and over 75 minutes of music. 'Greatest Hits 1965-1971 - Lightning's Girl' is the most comprehensive and appealing career overview to date of 1960s pop sensation Nancy Sinatra.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars For Content; Three For Mastering, July 2, 2003

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This review is from: Lightning's Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971 (Audio CD)

This is easily the most comprehensive single-cd retrospective of Nancy's work to emerge yet, running her full gamut of musical styles. They're all covered: The gleeful verbal spankings of "Boots" and "Sorry 'bout That," the surprisingly bluesy "Friday's Child," the catchy country of "Jackson" and "Hooks and Ladder," and the haunting beauty of "Summer Wine" and "Some Velvet Morning"--both with Lee Hazlewood. The latter of those is the epitome of a haunting, atmospheric, ethereal ballad that roams your head for awhile after you hear it: I loved it when it came out in the winter of 1968, and it still blows me away to this day! I was a bit disappointed, however, in some of the mastering: Particularly during the section highlighting Nancy & Lee's duets, tape hiss is quite noticeable--even between the songs (like someone threw on a second-generation reel-to-reel tape and just let it roll.) An older mix of "Summer Wine" is used, with the vocals all the way to one stereo channel and the song faded out where the old 45 was faded. The far superior mix, also running almost a half-minute longer, can be found on "Fairy Tales & Fantasies." (I had hoped to be able to sell that cd--given that ten of its fifteen tracks are included here--but after hearing the above example and the mediocre mastering on the other N&L tracks, believe I'd be wise to hold onto it.) But hey, don't let me talk you out of buying this cd if you want a great Nancy comp: This far eclipses Rhino's best-of from several years back--which only had 18 tracks while this boasts 26 (with only one stinker in the bunch, "Drummer Man." And certainly, "You Only Live Twice" stands shoulder-to-shoulder with "Goldfinger" as the crown jewels of the Bond movie themes. Finally, the price is quite reasonable for an import with the amount of music contained here. So by all means, buy this cd--but you also might want to get "Fairy Tales & Fantasies" to get the best available sound on the N&L duets.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive, September 28, 2002

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R. Riis "rriis" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lightning's Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971 (Audio CD)

More tracks than the Rhino "Greatest Hits" CD and liner notes by Nancy herself. This is the definitive Nancy Sinatra CD retrospective.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Most Complete...but..., August 27, 2008

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BuzzGuy (Madison, WI, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lightning's Girl: Greatest Hits 1965-1971 (Audio CD)

At 26 tracks, this is a very complete overview of Nancy's work. It also puts "Summer Wine", "Sand", and "Some Velvet Morning" in one place, a distinct advantage over other Nancy discs.

Nancy wasn't the best singer, dancer, or actress, but she had a crafty eye for suitable material and teachability. "Friday's Child" is one of my favorite solo songs of hers. In singing it, she effectively has to negate her own sexiness to bring the tale across. Taking chances on such songs was the proof that she could and did grow artistically.

The Nancy and Lee duets comprise tracks 15-24. I can't add much new to what's already been said about the most celebrated duets. Suffice it to say, "Summer Wine", "Some Velvet Morning", and "Sand" are about as baroque and bizarre as pop music ever got.

The inclusion of a later Nancy/Lee duet, "Down From Dover" shows just how much Nancy had learned since "Boots". This time, Lee is in the predatory role, singing in an unusually low register, even for him. Nancy gives just the right amount of theatrics to the heroine of the song. What's unique about this number is that Nancy and Lee have taken a highly acclaimed songwriter, Dolly Parton, and fitted one of her darkest compositions into their style with results that make all three of them look good. This ain't bubblegum, folks.

The problem with this disc is the sound. Nobody has surpassed Rhino's "Nancy Sinatra The Hit Years", released in 1986. Though you'll miss "Sand" and "Down From Dover" on Rhino's release, most everything else of importance is there.