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  • Genius!

  • still has a seductive, eerie granduer. Thx for posting

  • PSYCH BAROQUE!

  • ..summer of 1967...an innocent age..

  • very trippy tune

  • Lee Hazelwood was a true great. He is missed by anyone who loved musical genius.

  • Here is another wonderful song, the innocence of the 1960's haunting,magical,wispsfull.The­re, will never ever be another Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra !! Those Two will always be my favorite singers/dueos no replacement can be replaced

  • ive commented on this already several times. but i just cant get enough of this song . I love the haunting and eery melody fused between the deep dark velvetly smooth voice of Lee and the ethereally beautiful voice of Nancy.. I just want to add one thing it may be a Mans World.. but a woman still has the power to bring him to his knees with her feminine and ethereal beauty and charms.

  • @dreammakersfly i agree 100% .. i know i want to go back to that time too./ th etime when i used to wear flowers in my hair and there were love and peace in the air and not all this senseless violence. . I lived in the 60s the greatest time for so many things especially music. SO until one day someone builds a time machine so that i can return to my home.. i guess ill have to stick it our in this world. Sixties forever.. Love and Peace.. MermaidPrincess9

  • Where's the half-sunken Statue of Liberty?

  • The verses are in 4/4 time, then change to 3/4 waltz time for Nancy's vocal. The switching back and forth at the end of the song is handled seamlessly by the backing musicians. It's a very tricky section ! Another example of this is "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles.

  • @zkxb credit the Wrecking Crew for the instrumental

  • THIS IS SO FABULOUS!!!!

  • @MaddyHatesMath Lee Hazelwood probably had the only voice that could stand toe-to-toe with Johnny Cash's. I don't know who could cover this and do it justice today.

  • Heard an interview with Lee a few years ago, before he died. He wrote this in a rush to fill open time in the Nancy Sinatra Show. The Censors almost killed it. "How she made it end" sounded like 'In" to much in his southern drawl for the foolish censors. It's still used a lot on Coast to Coast.

  • thank You Irene Trudel @wfmu

  • This song creeps me out so much! What does it even mean?

  • @Sweetieneenie I don't think it actually has meaning- it's up to the listener to give it a subjective interpretation. This was released when it was all the rage to trip out on LSD and waft around in a cloud of ganja fumes :)

  • Hazelwood said the ending is not edited together, but played live.

  • His part of this song sounds so much better.:)

  • This song is where my name came from....:)

  • A true classic,so why the hell don't the radio stations play it

  • @bloke372 I don't believe it ever got air play, It was for a TV special.

  • I got turned on to this song because it was used as bumper music on the "Coast to Coast Show" Driving at two a.m. (I was a truck driver) and hearing this song was a great experience. I just HAD to track it down! Some songs are just so unique they can't be adequately be described, you just have to listen to it. Awesome!

  • Jim Morrison loved Lee Hazelwood's Love of Whiskey in the late 60's...Dan O'Niallain

  • 1969 The Come on In, raging desire for a woman I loved - played the devil out of this tune

  • Of course Lee's version can't be beat, but for a cool psychedelic sound of SVM, check out Vanilla Fudge's version.

  • one of my favourite musical pieces of all time can remember it played on radio in new zealand when I was 8 or 9 always loved the song

  • 61 dislikes must be fan,s of lady ga ga

  • love the tempo change!!

  • Nice & spooky

  • a very beautiful song but so unuasuel but beautiful music and the arangment quite nice and relaxing

  • Great and interesting this is.

  • completely unique

  • haunting. Lee brought out different qualities in nancy. she's not just boots made for walking.

  • Ahaha Phaedra is MY name :)

  • I first heard this song when I came back from my first tour over in the Nam. I loved it then just as much as I do now. I can't understand how anyone would go looking for this song, and when once found, then dislike it.They are pure idiots who don't know a beautiful and haunting song when they hear it..

  • I hear this song on Coast to Coast AM all the time, but most of the time I would be half asleep. So one night I made sure to hear the lyrics, then I typed them into Google and it brought me to this video.

    Such a surreal song. I've listened to it quite a few times now hoping that Lee would tell us more about Phaedra, but he never does.

  • @cadorbolin Coast to Coast is how I heard this song for the first time as well! It's strangely haunting in all it's 4-track analog glory and luscious reverb.

  • @djbadsector Amen.

  • @djbadsector Hi. its "eerie" melody yet in interviews Lee and Nancy had said there was nothing secret or strange written into the lyrics themselves at the time. Often songs become more than they were ever written to be over time and I think this is one of them. - much to our delighted ears :) Does anyone else know more of this songs history?

  • I last heard this song on regular radio on the 210 Freeway, near Pasadena, CA in the summer of 1986. I have heard a few small bits on the Art Bell show, but nowhere the complete song. Another good song by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood is this: "Sand."

    put this on the YouTube search line.

    Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Sand

  • @Albacorewing You're so right, that's also a haunting song from this fantastic pair

  • I heard this song one night about midnight 15 years ago on the Art Bell's show now called coast to coast am. I was in between sleep and awake and thought that it was a cool but erie song at the same time! I never new its title until recently and m learning the lyrics! I googled the word "Aephedra" and what I found was... well check out yourself! You will be surprised! Let's enjoy the great song!

  • @jcamaya1000  But I bet the word is Phaedra.

  • I THINK I AM ADDICTED TO THIS SONG. I HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT AT LEAST ONCE A DAY MAYBE MORE./. ITS JUST SO DARK AND ETHEREAL / HAUNTING AND BEAUTIFUL.. / ALMOST GHOSTLY.. TO ME ITS TRULY THE SYMBOLISM FOR MAN AND WOMAN. / MAN BEING STRONG AND PHYSICAL/ MASCULINE AND VIRILE. / AND WOMAN FEMININE AND GRACEFUL AND ETHEREALLY BEAUTIFUL. / IF YOU LISTEN TO FEDRA.. SHE SAYS LEARN FROM US BUT DO NOT TOUCH.BEC. ESSENTIALLY WOMAN ARE ETHEREAL CREATURES AND MEN ARE PHYSICAL CREATURES.EARTHLY/

  • I kept expecting him to come accross the half buried statue of liberty - DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL

    that aside, a beatiful romantic awesome song

    Nancy was one georgeous class act

  • am absolutely blown away by this viddeo...it is the symbol for man and woman . hard and soft and masculine and feminine...and dark beauty...(man) and ethereal beauty..(woman) flower is the woman.... / just beautiful.. genius.

  • @MermaidPrincess9 True words, same with Lady Bird, a guy can be macho and spoil his woman with flowers, nothing wrong with that, guy's today should take a lesson from that book; Love your partner and you get the same back in return, and it took Lee and Nancy to break the barrier between a male ego and a woman needs, we both love a hug, so look out for the flowers guy's, she will love you for it. Lee has put it into music.

  • I´ll got almost that voice

  • my dad heard this when he was a kid and he listened to it again today. it was stuck in his head for a long time. now its in my head XD

  • Sounds like two ghosts singing to each other...

  • good mix with Nancy and Lee, put country music in a new era and showed Frank that his daughter has a good voice and a talent also, Lee good work.

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  • I remember this song in the mid sixties and how out of place it seemed to be, but it was a major hit. What's weird is that my uncle died that year and I always associated that song with his funeral, and all that transpired that year. It was a very strange song, it is a very strange song in any year, you got to admit that. As far as I am concerned it is a song of the first death of a loved one I ever knew. This song , really has some creep factors for me.

  • Anybody out there with the name Phaedra? And if so, did your parents name you that because of this song? Just curious.

  • the Nancy & Lee album is so fantastic, what a beautiful video!

  • good stuff.

  • I always get a old west ---- out in the sticks vibe from this song. Late 1800s.

  • @HonkIfYouLoveHonking

    U get a planet of the apes vibe, but the sherr oddity of the song and the haunting sound is awesome

  • Very creepy

  • OMG....when Nancy appears I thought for a moment she is something like a monster coming out of the Water hahahaha I mean, serious, all you see is her head and this enormus hair and no face....

    Great song indeed.

  • A wonderful, very erotic song and video. Very much a product of it's time, yet also timeless as well.

  • Haunting song.. Lee's voice amazing.. Beautiful song..

  • I adore this song...

    

  • "And maybe tell you about Phaedra".....One of the quentessential"hippie" songs of the mid's 60'. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra were miles ahead of the times---vey trippy. And so many years later, I still love this. In remembrance of my love, Harry, 1948-1992.

  • I think they were a great couple singing together

  • Lee Hazlewood was quite a songwriter! I wish I would have followed his music and career back in the late 60's and in the 70's.

    I can watch this video over and over; very spellbinding.

  • How can anybody dislike this? They were probably not even born when this came out!

    Brings back great memories from 1968, a great song.

  • lee you where a great singer/songwriter i my eyes

    that is my opinion

    i listen to your music all the time

    thanks again. alan

    rip (boots) lee ...

  • like a orchestral opera, I like it very much

  • I had the fortune to interview Lee on Mothers Day 1993, in Toronto. we shan't see the likes of him again.

  • those two were born to sing togeather, i love the song and the video , thanks.

  • one of thee most magical tracks ever written in time and prolly ever to be written , truly majestic.. it touches my soul dis one...

  • Lee sounded and wrote like Kris... I loved this song and "rare" video.

    I'm sure that I saw the damn thing sitting on the floor in the late 60's in front of our color TV! Kids sat on the floor and NEVER changed the TV channel unless requested by an actual adult! Imagine that.

  • I remember this from school days. Lining up by grades and civil defense drills.

  • The combo of Nancy & Lee has never been equaled. How they came to record together I've never known, but their songs are unforgettable. I will put them in the catagory of Nat King Cole as relative today as the day they were recorded.

  • i listened to this as a child, glad to see and hear theese again! much thanks!

  • The "Strings" intro Is Just Amazing!!

    I've listened to Lee's Amazing Music for Years!!

  • my mom named me after this song RIP mom i love you

    and miss you

  • @faydra74 Oh my word thats amazing

  • yeah, i love this one!

  • I dedicate this song to Al Williams of Kake, Ak.

  • Love Nancy's outfit!

  • hypnotising

  • love this song..... sang it alot when i was drunk and feeling good....

  • After all these years gone by, this song still continues to haunt my soul! I have loved this song from my days in high school and seeing the TV Special, "Movin' With Nancy." I was hooked! I went out and bought the vinyl 331/3 record album of the same title...later, bought more of Nancy's releases...including her duet album with Lee Hazlewood! I no longer have those classic LPs, but now own the CD versions of all their great tunes! Eternal Magic!

  • If you're taking off on a plane,with this tune playing, and the wheels leave the tarmac at exactly 0.21 the feeling is beyond words or music.

  • best duet of all time, Q magazine.

  • WoW were all getting OLD. This is an Haunting song from the past ! Love - It !

  • Thank you for sharing this video.

  • This reminds me of hearing Mom's music on AM radio before we went to school.

  • @littlewolf60 art bell

  • WOW........UNREAL GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • meine große Liebe ist tot,Jörg ,ich werde dich nie vergessen, R.i.P. Claudia

  • I love this song, Lee had an awesome voice.... Godspeed Lee :-)  LM

  • Hazlewood was a handsome fella back then :-)

  • I was having flashbacks by the time it got over. Awesome.

  • nancy and lee... great song

  • Thanks for sharing, A beautiful song & haunting melody.

  • very nice song

  • Lee Hazlewood's voice is so freakin' awesome!

  • For the longest time I thought the British band Slowdive wrote this song... then I heard this on Oldies AM 1090. Blew my mind.

  • forget the drugs, this song is wonderful!

  • Good god this song is soo good yet so freakin CREEPY!!!!

  • Dieses Lied ist auf eine wahnsinnig schöne Art melancholisch.

    Dieses Lied ist eine Offenbarung.

  • whenever i play this i always end up playing it 10 more times

  • Been listening to this since I was a small child, I'm a teen now and it still send shivers down my spine! Reminds me of Alex and Jade too.

  • Great song.

  • her voice is amazing but his voice is just the best can't get enough

  • This song is so spooky to me. It makes me think I smell musty things. I Guess it sounds old.

  • @dickrobot it is old about 45 years old and heck, I am 58....I believe Lee passed away abiout 5 yearsa go or so but both of them together sang such beautiful tunes..........Amen partner

  • Lee Hazelwood was a brillant pop songwriter - this song is an indication - very unique and mystical sounding - he also penned the 1966 hit for Nancy, These Boots Are Made For Walking ... genius comes from the ability to write non complicated simple songs - this is the magic of pop songwriting - I will always be a fan!

  • Hazelwood Sinatra songs are regarded as classics now but were only minor hits when the came out. Any one have a theory why they have aged so well?

  • @mudbonehancock Maybe its because we've aged so well.. Thats why things become collectable, and treasured. Music and items of the past remind us of the "good old days" and the best times of our youth. You carry them with you through the years....

  • so psychedelic. The contrasting vocals at the end are wild.

  • How very gorgeous. Thank you so much.

  • I am so sorry he has passed I didn;t know :( i have love this song long time and have just recently found the youtube .. rip Lee xx

  • @Hardstyle0Infected It is amazing the talent Lee had. Aside from this genius with Nancy he wrote some of the most kick a surf tunes of all time, I refer you to "Baja" for starters and my fav "El Eglula" (sic) I mean "The Eagle".

  • I've been trying to find this song. Also heard it on the George Nory's Coast to Coast in the middle of the night and couldn't wait ti hear it again. I heard it in Starbucks and remembered how beautiful it is.

  • that's where I heard it again....george nory's show ....about three am.

    what a shock.....hadn't heard it in over thirty years....thanks for posting it.

    what memories......

  • Amazing voice Lee had..still sends chills up and down my spine years later. Nancy was better than given credit for.

  • Thought this was one of the strangest songs at the time!! It sure was!!! Loved it!! The Video an obvious forerunner to Music Videos! Better than alot of them!!

  • Thought this was one of the strangest songs at the time!! It sure was!!! Loved it!! The Video an obvious forerunner to Music Videos!

  • LSD- A device for finding God while losing your car keys... "Some Velvet morning when I`m straight! " Outstanding....

  • Man does this bring back some memories of my childhood! All good though, because when I was a kid, I had a radio. But to hear this song just once again is awesome! But the first time I heard this song in decades was on the radio show called "Coast to Coast" with George Nori. . . Nancy Sinatra's is very dynamic in this duo!

  • THANKS--REALLY ENJOY THESE TWO TOGETHER

  • I'VE LOVED THIS TUNE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS

  • @bobaloo47 me too about 40+

  • @bobaloo47  me too about 40 tears !

  • thanks benn looking for it a long time

  • I'm looking for a song sung by Lee.I heard him sing it on the Ed Sullivan Show.Don't know the title but some of the words were about "hearing a baby crying",and then the words "no you didn't a baby cry". It had that haunting air about it like Some Velvet Morning, Do anyone remember it?

  • I am quite sure this is one of the greatest songs ever to be played on the radio...I remember it, summer 68? completely mesmerized by this as a kid...wtf

  • i love this song. i could listen to it all day

  • amazing!

    5 *****

  • good times never come back...

  • @wedge426 We go on to create more good times, those particular times cannot return. But they remain in your memory forever. 

  • This song has always sent chills up my shine. So ghostly accurate of the feelings of loneliness!

  • I will always love this. 

  • This song is fantastic. A perfect duet. and the lyrics, well, they have a very special meaning to me.

  • I grew up listening to this...It still brings back memories from when I was a kid with my brother and sister....a different era for sure. Pure greatness

  • Alone on an island... this one will do for me. Pure magic!!

  • For Jamie Sue...

  • @rbertagopetah13 And For Patricia...

  • Enchanting.

  • Magical...

  • Awesome, the best duets ever made were made by these two:)

  • beautiful song, beautiful video, beautiful horses, beautiful beach

  • A very beautiful song.

  • ...some of the greatest songs ever - 17 years ago, I was able to creep into my loudspeakers and chill with lee and nancy...

  • I was named after this song :)

  • good song

  • original, is always the best version.

    hazlewood... i love his voice, in this song he give his best vocal interpretation i think.

    just my opinion.

    enjoy it.

  • so soft and beautiful--all their duets are brilliant !

  • Talk about setting the standard high for duets! This song is absolutely ageless.

  • What is this song about?

  • @lorenarcp

    It's about what you imagine it to be about. The video is interesting but if you are looking for meaning in this song, forget the video.

  • They even do their own stunts. Love it.

  • Lee was on Ed Sullivan show,he sung solo,a haunting song about hearing someone cry and somebody telling him,no you didn't hear somebody cry.I kind find it anywhere,can someone help

  • Sehr schön!Immer wieder gerne!

  • Beautiful song - so eerie and haunting. Love those high, reverbed vocals! Nancy wasn't a bad bit of totty back in the day too.

  • Lee also produced all of Duane Eddy's songs in Phoenix, AZ at a small studio he used there. His first hit was "The Fool" by Sanford Clark, an amazingly produced song for its time...Lee's product was so awesome that a young Phil Spector trecked to Phoenix just to watch him and help him around the studio for 6 months. After that time Lee called Lester Sill in LA and said that the kid was driving him crazy, and he sent him back on the bus. Another Lee-produced song was "Linda Lu" by Ray Sharpe.

  • Lee was auditioning male singers to work with Nancy on duets, but Nancy said she liked the way HE sang. Lee was a deejay, songwriter and record producer who didn't especially enjoy the spotlight. You might say that Nancy won, but they both won. She also made a key decision as to what single should be released from her first LP. Lee and some of his cronies were mulling this over, but Nancy just loved "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and thought it would be a huge hit.

  • wowww

  • I had forgotten how awesome this pair are together.

  • one of the best songs of the century

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  • I just wanted remix this song, but I can´t stop listening to it. Beautiful track.

  • That was a time when there was a fine line between rock and pop. Songs like this got played on many different kinds of radio stations--more than some of the biggest hits of that day.

    However, that airplay didn't always translate into sales because in those days that older listener didn't buy records like the kids. In other cases they more than made up for the low single sales with LP sales.

    Nancy and Lee were BIG sellers because they crossed pop AND country.

  • Just perfect

  • in those days i wonted to be older ,i am now .i'd lick to knock a few years off now .

  • my sister came back from germany ,left a load of records at my mams house, dont touch i was told, but when the cats away ,,,,,,,,,, i was bourn in1953 in gods country called england ,

  • reminds me when i was young ,,,,,a long time ago,,,,,

  • @MrScothern1 yes, meaning 58....I was born in 1952, june 6th. was 16 when this hit the charts................young and really didm't know life in general, just was a "pup" but remember this tune on the AM radio here in St. Paul, MN

  • Another song from Nancy and Lee that still are some of my favorite "songs from the hood". Especially, the way Lee Hazelwood and Jim Morrison sang about serious drinking. Legend has it that Lee like to Beer, Wine and Whiskey...Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.

  • This video is bizarre.

  • Best music I ever heard.