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Lee Hazlewood (songwriter/producer) : It came about because of my greed! I put a record out with her three or four times a year that would last about three months. But now and then it would be two, two-and-a-half months. And a month without Nancy Sinatra on the radio drove me crazy because I'm so greedy! So I wrote boy/girl songs that everybody at Reprise wanted to record with Nancy, but she insisted on me. She said, "It doesn't sound right without you.' I said, 'OK, if we don't get arrested!'
Nancy Sinatra : I just told him the truth: that I didn’t think it was good for a man to sing it, that it sounded kind of ugly, and that a girl should sing it and it would be better. And he realized I was right.
(Interview in Rolling Stone, 2021)
Lee Hazlewood : I read this, Nancy's Sinatra's best comment concerning me: 'Do you understand that Lee's songs have double and triple meanings sometimes? They have more than one meaning to them,' Then she said, 'He writes them, I sing them,' and that's the best answer I've ever heard in my life to any question about my songs.
(interview with Billboard magazine, 2007)
Nancy Sinatra : He (Lee Hazlewood) changed everything for me. He pretended to be this country shitkicker, know-nothing kind of guy, but he was highly educated. An Army veteran. A very worldly person who knew what he was doing. He used to do what he called the “dumb sound” for my records. Dumb meaning uncomplicated. It consisted mainly of rhythm section, the drummer, the bass, three guitars all kind of chugging along. And it created a whole different thing for me.
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Nancy Sinatra : I just told him the truth: that I didn’t think it was good for a man to sing it, that it sounded kind of ugly, and that a girl should sing it and it would be better. And he realized I was right.
(Interview in Rolling Stone, 2021)
Lee Hazlewood : I read this, Nancy's Sinatra's best comment concerning me: 'Do you understand that Lee's songs have double and triple meanings sometimes? They have more than one meaning to them,' Then she said, 'He writes them, I sing them,' and that's the best answer I've ever heard in my life to any question about my songs.
(interview with Billboard magazine, 2007)
Nancy Sinatra : He (Lee Hazlewood) changed everything for me. He pretended to be this country shitkicker, know-nothing kind of guy, but he was highly educated. An Army veteran. A very worldly person who knew what he was doing. He used to do what he called the “dumb sound” for my records. Dumb meaning uncomplicated. It consisted mainly of rhythm section, the drummer, the bass, three guitars all kind of chugging along. And it created a whole different thing for me.