Autumn '66, and Nancy lacks her allure here, appears to give some Cher-like "I'm bored". One year earlier, she did "So Long Babe", using that famous eyelock with the
camera, a surprising gesture for 1965. Of course, she was holding a surprise Ace
here, as "Sugar Town" faded, DJ's flipped it over...Her BEST: "Summerwine".
I was just entering the Army..little did I know in about a year I was heading for Vietnam..This song will always stick with me...it still makes me smile..
Feminism swept all this away - now women are hard and cynical and materialistic. They dress like men (jeans), and behave just as badly. The advantage they once had is long gone.
And the hollow feeling grows and grows. And you wanna call your mother and say: "Mother, I can never come home again because I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a street in Sugar Town."
In the middle of the night it feels alright but then tomorrow morning:
Ohh Ohh when you come down, oohh what if you never come down?
Life in SugarTown. I'd buy it. I was 7 when this song hit the air. I remember being able to wear pants to school for the first time. Radical Days those 60's.
Man, the dancers in the background sure look great, but they are a bit off from each other..It's not the most together piece of dancing, but it kind of fits the whole piece..Fluffy, lightweight, but sweet in it's own way..
A lot of people use to call me "cocky" when I was a 17 yr old back in 1967. One day when I said to my buddy boys at our hang out that I thought this song was pretty cool they called me some other choice things I won't go in to. But now at 57 I look at this video and what I see is the beautiful Daughter of an American icon singing a nifty ditty with great choreography! And I still think it's cool. What's Life without a little levity?
Well she's no Bob Fosse, but this brings back childhood memories! I recall hearing this song back in 1967 at a fair up near Napa, California. It's a very memorable song that did not suffer from overplay.
What about this song? Fantastic. They don't write 'em like that anymore. Written by Lee Hazelwood, an enigmatic genius. Check his Allmusic bio. Dizzying!
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Good song and dancing but .... Nancy is not too good looking for being the daughter of two famous people. Too much space between her top lip and nose.
st4155, you must be a complete and utter retard.So all famous people have good looking offspring??Nancy is very good looking.I hope Frank's mafia hunt you down and rip you apart.
You are out of your mind. When I was a kid I remember seeing her on The Ed Sullivan Show singing "These Boots are Made For Walking" and I thought she was really hot. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
Oh yes, thursdayhooty, the almost legendary Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney's talent as a choreographer, hot-air balloon maker, inventor and international playboy, friend of the famous and writer of music is one of the most fascinating subjects I have stumbled upon.
Venerated psychiatrist Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney actually choreographed this as a personal favor to Mr. Sinatra. The two were long time friends.
There were some variety shows at the time that didn't allow "lip-synching" of hit recordings {Ed Sullivan's was one of them}. I don't know where this 1966 excerpt came from, but Nancy did indeed perform it "live" [but in all probability, the song was pre-recorded before the actual taping] with the band of the show she guest-starred on. This could have been on "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" or Roger Miller's, or Sullivan's- I DO know this was originally seen in color {this is a black & white "kinnie"}.
Sweet! Nancy looked like this kind neighborhood girl. Times has changed, you can't be like this, cause you have to show your boobs and ass, then you're hot enough! 60's was happy time!
Nancy's producer/writer/duet partner Lee Hazlewood said in an interview about the meaning of his song, "Sugar Town":
"I was in a folk club in LA which had two levels.I could see these kids lining up sugar cubes and they had an eye-dropper and were putting something on them. I wasn't a doper so I didn't know what it was but I asked them. It was LSD and one of the kids said, "You know, it's kinda Sugar Town." Nancy knew what the song was about because I told her, but luckily Reprise didn't."
I must say it's a pleasure to come across this clip, not just 'cause it's fun to see Nancy from the '60s, but 'cause it's an interesting alternate version of the song, a different recording from the single. It sounds like they
That's our late lamented Lee. He's almost our answer to Serge Gainsbourg. Only Lee was more interested in drugs than being the dirty old man that Serge was. I actually saw Nancy live a couple of years ago-she's still got it. Originally Nancy didn't get it, but I think Lee really got her on board, and those two made fantastic music together.
Actually, "Sugar Town" is an ode to the joys of heroin addiction. The lyrics describe someone who is blissfully strung out all the time. Too bad the lyricist never bothered to tell Nancy, tho.
It's the only way the song makes any sense. I prefer to believe that our Nancy has a bit more going on than the bubblegum froth that these lyrics seem to convey.
Nancy and Lee Hazelwood (RIP) put out an album, one of the songs was "Jackson", and another was "These Boots Are Made For Walking". That was one FANTASTIC album!!!
Lee Hazelwood did a SUPERB job with "One Velvet Morning". They were GREAT together!
I remember listening to this song in Saigon (1967) while watching some boom-boom girls do their thing. Great memories!
Dayga 1 year ago
Autumn '66, and Nancy lacks her allure here, appears to give some Cher-like "I'm bored". One year earlier, she did "So Long Babe", using that famous eyelock with the
camera, a surprising gesture for 1965. Of course, she was holding a surprise Ace
here, as "Sugar Town" faded, DJ's flipped it over...Her BEST: "Summerwine".
movingon4ever 1 year ago
I was just entering the Army..little did I know in about a year I was heading for Vietnam..This song will always stick with me...it still makes me smile..
lnefouse 1 year ago
THEN: sex appeal
NOW: sex
God, I miss those times when singers had natural sex appeal.
cafe20011 1 year ago 2
I'm in shoo shoo shoo, shoo shoo shoo, shoo-sho, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo SUGAR TOWN! :P
DiddieStar8 1 year ago
Is this going to be in the NoRemake's movie, "Sugartown"?
jegonus 1 year ago
what year was this??? 65???
pkappel006 1 year ago
Imagine a 1080p Blu-ray
gunnarMyTube 1 year ago 3
Sugary..but love it
ppaulmorris 1 year ago
Feminism swept all this away - now women are hard and cynical and materialistic. They dress like men (jeans), and behave just as badly. The advantage they once had is long gone.
lausanne67 1 year ago 3
@lausanne67
I agree 100%
THaulk 1 year ago
In this video I finally see that Italian look on'er.
djujkjubamaster 1 year ago
they now grandgrandma's
3M00RI 1 year ago
she looks better with out so much mascara like she is here.....a real beauty she is!!
jg300gman 1 year ago
@Cafeblanx Who's stopping them? Who's holding them back? People should just be what they want to be.
MowgliX 1 year ago
her face looks like a jinny/magic elf toy I had in the 60s.
wattever333 1 year ago 2
Why can't we be simply and behave classy anymore...hmmm!
abhichatz 1 year ago 2
@Cafeblanx Great comment!! I hope you're one of them and God bless if you are!!
flamesounds 1 year ago 2
Pancakes!
Spartacus217 2 years ago
ah.. how well I remember this and go go boots!!! Man I'm gettin old! lol
dkasogc 2 years ago
She sure got her talent from her father, surprising she never continued.
franklindavid 3 years ago
And the hollow feeling grows and grows. And you wanna call your mother and say: "Mother, I can never come home again because I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a street in Sugar Town."
In the middle of the night it feels alright but then tomorrow morning:
Ohh Ohh when you come down, oohh what if you never come down?
kaffesurrogat 3 years ago
Cool song. She sure was a babe!
bj616 3 years ago
"Sugarland" huh, is that what kids called it back then.
carmbayriver 3 years ago
Life in SugarTown. I'd buy it. I was 7 when this song hit the air. I remember being able to wear pants to school for the first time. Radical Days those 60's.
f000se 3 years ago
Wow, this is one of the first broadcasts of women wearing pants outside the home(January 1967).
scottbaino 3 years ago
Ever heard of Dietrich? Look her up on Youtube. She wore pants with panache, before Nancy was born
sonnymon 3 years ago
marlene dietrich
Zahnbuersteundpasta 3 years ago
Man, the dancers in the background sure look great, but they are a bit off from each other..It's not the most together piece of dancing, but it kind of fits the whole piece..Fluffy, lightweight, but sweet in it's own way..
dbd1353 3 years ago
A lot of people use to call me "cocky" when I was a 17 yr old back in 1967. One day when I said to my buddy boys at our hang out that I thought this song was pretty cool they called me some other choice things I won't go in to. But now at 57 I look at this video and what I see is the beautiful Daughter of an American icon singing a nifty ditty with great choreography! And I still think it's cool. What's Life without a little levity?
BigIronOnHipMan 3 years ago 8
No1 can say her ol mans rep waz the only thing that carried her
Pendulum711 3 years ago
i was born in 88 and now its 08. im 20 but i love this song
mehdieminem 3 years ago
Cool!
gibbythepick 3 years ago
ya but she looks like she could take the cawk
gibbythepick 3 years ago
Well she's no Bob Fosse, but this brings back childhood memories! I recall hearing this song back in 1967 at a fair up near Napa, California. It's a very memorable song that did not suffer from overplay.
xomegabronze 3 years ago
Nancy Sinatra was pretty sexy, that's for sure. I'll say.
Cidriullo 3 years ago
Marvellous footwork.
Yamibee 3 years ago 2
What about this song? Fantastic. They don't write 'em like that anymore. Written by Lee Hazelwood, an enigmatic genius. Check his Allmusic bio. Dizzying!
st4155 3 years ago
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Good song and dancing but .... Nancy is not too good looking for being the daughter of two famous people. Too much space between her top lip and nose.
st4155 3 years ago
You must be out of your ***ing mind.
Losrandiro 3 years ago 2
Too much space...?? Like the "TOO much space" in your empty head???????
I have a feeling your kids are gonna be seriously unattractive...........and no doubt VERY stupid.
Good luck!! :-)
ProbertFire 3 years ago 3
ehh. I kind of agree, not that I claim to be prettier. I really like this song though. o: <3
supahyellow 3 years ago
st4155, you must be a complete and utter retard.So all famous people have good looking offspring??Nancy is very good looking.I hope Frank's mafia hunt you down and rip you apart.
Umskiddy 3 years ago
You are out of your mind. When I was a kid I remember seeing her on The Ed Sullivan Show singing "These Boots are Made For Walking" and I thought she was really hot. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
randbrose 3 years ago
That bit in the middle sounds like "Lazy Bones" by Hoagy Carmichael, which oddly enough is also quoted in a song by XTC, "Leisure".
Ondelay 3 years ago
60s at it's best, complete with some kind of mini-moonwalk at 1:18 (albeit sideways). Hot girl, great voice. I'm sure dad was proud.
rhodeisland95 3 years ago
where do you take this version from?
This version is diferent from her other version on her "Sugar", I have both, LP and CD.
What is the year from this video Clip?, 1965?
Nancysinatrafan 3 years ago
it looks like it is in the 20's, but its in the 6o's .
MINEM11 3 years ago
Mine,,,amny people compared the 60's to the 20's
Clemburke1111 3 years ago
Beautiful video souvenir bravo:))xx 5*
KaroKaraokeCountry 3 years ago
Fuuuuuunky!!! I love it.
64eugenia 3 years ago 2
i love this song but its wierd cause she doesn't look happy
LittleAnne123 3 years ago
Back when girls were girls.Man, I miss those days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
flamesounds 3 years ago 26
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jajjaajaj.....and what they are now?
JRDL1981 3 years ago
Whores, JRDL1981. Whores.
guitarheadforlife 3 years ago
@flamesounds so what are they now?
mochuck 1 year ago
@mochuck If you have to ask you'll never know..
flamesounds 1 year ago
Oh yes, thursdayhooty, the almost legendary Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney's talent as a choreographer, hot-air balloon maker, inventor and international playboy, friend of the famous and writer of music is one of the most fascinating subjects I have stumbled upon.
locobuick 3 years ago
Wow, who needs talent when you got a great ass,and your old man is frankie baby, Ha,,,
blueticecho 3 years ago
just a happy mindless little ditty ...5 stars one of my fave songs
paultinsel 3 years ago 3
Venerated psychiatrist Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney actually choreographed this as a personal favor to Mr. Sinatra. The two were long time friends.
locobuick 3 years ago 2
I grew up in chicago and we re-named this song nig-nig-nig- um sugartown
shizay74x 3 years ago
God I loved the 60's!!
ronnykmarshall 3 years ago 5
Sug shug shu-Gar town. Sugartown. Sweet
lucinda2005 3 years ago 2
nancy least favorite song apprentley she donesn't sing it no more lol
whirlyfan 3 years ago
There were some variety shows at the time that didn't allow "lip-synching" of hit recordings {Ed Sullivan's was one of them}. I don't know where this 1966 excerpt came from, but Nancy did indeed perform it "live" [but in all probability, the song was pre-recorded before the actual taping] with the band of the show she guest-starred on. This could have been on "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" or Roger Miller's, or Sullivan's- I DO know this was originally seen in color {this is a black & white "kinnie"}.
fromthesidelines 3 years ago 2
Sweet! Nancy looked like this kind neighborhood girl. Times has changed, you can't be like this, cause you have to show your boobs and ass, then you're hot enough! 60's was happy time!
Plasvi 3 years ago 30
@Plasvi Yeah, sad it's come down to the lowest common deniminator and certain standards have fallen by the wayside.
flamesounds 1 year ago
yeah, i remember sugar town. Loose sweet divine.
lucinda2005 3 years ago 2
Nancy's producer/writer/duet partner Lee Hazlewood said in an interview about the meaning of his song, "Sugar Town":
"I was in a folk club in LA which had two levels.I could see these kids lining up sugar cubes and they had an eye-dropper and were putting something on them. I wasn't a doper so I didn't know what it was but I asked them. It was LSD and one of the kids said, "You know, it's kinda Sugar Town." Nancy knew what the song was about because I told her, but luckily Reprise didn't."
Bobb9999 4 years ago 2
i guess everythings groovey as long as your high as a kite!lol
charliedontsurf70 4 years ago
Yeah, gimme sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-Sugartown!
I must say it's a pleasure to come across this clip, not just 'cause it's fun to see Nancy from the '60s, but 'cause it's an interesting alternate version of the song, a different recording from the single. It sounds like they
recorded it in a studio, and are lip synching
for the TV show.
Bobb9999 4 years ago 3
I bought the 45 when it was a hit, ..I was a kid. Seems like yesterday.
reelvalue 4 years ago
White girls can dance! but maybe he cant
black girls can also dance
hrefnahlo 4 years ago
white girl can't dance, but what a charming song, bless her
Ctmagnus 4 years ago
This is so sweet. Like it.
SgtOBrien 4 years ago 2
Does anyone remember the "Sugar Twin" radio ad in 1968? I vaguely remember it and either Nancy or a soundalike sampled the song with the new title.
bertskoi 4 years ago
dankedankedankedanke
AndreundSvenni 4 years ago
So coooool dress! Love it :D
wendy56mx 4 years ago
i liked the version with the milady's!!!
JPandCo 4 years ago
the czech version is sooooooooooooo much better! btw thats where im from
hyevana 4 years ago
That's our late lamented Lee. He's almost our answer to Serge Gainsbourg. Only Lee was more interested in drugs than being the dirty old man that Serge was. I actually saw Nancy live a couple of years ago-she's still got it. Originally Nancy didn't get it, but I think Lee really got her on board, and those two made fantastic music together.
shaggycub 4 years ago
Actually, "Sugar Town" is an ode to the joys of heroin addiction. The lyrics describe someone who is blissfully strung out all the time. Too bad the lyricist never bothered to tell Nancy, tho.
Idjitz 4 years ago
really, where in the world did you find out that intersting piece of info.
bismarck 4 years ago
It's the only way the song makes any sense. I prefer to believe that our Nancy has a bit more going on than the bubblegum froth that these lyrics seem to convey.
Idjitz 4 years ago
Sugar Babe. I can see why Elvis had a fling with, Nancy.
theelvisguy 4 years ago
great song but that background stuff in the middle......um no.
Sixtiesfreak 4 years ago
Nancy and Lee Hazelwood (RIP) put out an album, one of the songs was "Jackson", and another was "These Boots Are Made For Walking". That was one FANTASTIC album!!!
Lee Hazelwood did a SUPERB job with "One Velvet Morning". They were GREAT together!
JNTM2000 4 years ago