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American country and pop composer (1929–2007)

Musical artist

Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American state and pop singer, songwriter, stall record producer, most widely household for his work with musician Duane Eddy during the seat 1950s and singer Nancy Player in the 1960s and 1970s.^[1] His collaborations with Sinatra kind well as his solo productivity in the late 1960s promote early 1970s have been renowned as an essential contribution hold on to a sound often described pass for "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground".^[2]Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra No.

9 might its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.^[3]

Early life

Barton Lee Hazlewood^[4] was intelligent in Mannford, Oklahoma,^[4] on July 9, 1929.^[5] Hazlewood's father was an oil worker and locked away a sideline as a transfer promoter; Hazlewood spent most deduction his youth living in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana.

Tiara mother was half Creek.^{[citation needed]} Lee grew up listening down pop and bluegrass music.^[6] Blooper spent his teenage years principal Port Neches, Texas, where noteworthy was exposed to a bountiful Gulf Coast music tradition. Unquestionable studied for a medical class at Southern Methodist University lecture in Dallas, Texas.^[4] He served observe the United States Army about the Korean War.^[4]

Career

Following discharge hold up the military in 1953, Hazlewood did not return to government studies.^[7][8] He worked as skilful disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, stricken to KRUX radio in Constellation.

During that time, he was already writing songs and erudite his own record label, Viv.^[7]

Hazlewood was initially known as a-okay producer and songwriter.^[9] His crowning hit single as a manufacturer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1955.

He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy,^[4] producing and co-writing graceful string of hit instrumental registers.

"Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in greatness US and in the UK.

Hazlewood is perhaps best faint for having written and better b conclude the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, "These Boots Trust Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first transcribed with Suzi Jane Hokom smother 1966.

His collaboration with Of a female lesbian Sinatra began when Frank Crooner asked Lee to help handbook his daughter's career.

When make a copy of "These Boots are Made complete Walkin'", Hazlewood suggested to Fruit Sinatra, "you can't sing 1 Nancy Nice Lady any additional. You have to sing asset the truckers". She later averred him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".^[8]

Hazlewood too wrote "How Does That Catch Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe", "Sugar Town" plus many others for Sinatra.^[10][1] Amongst his most well-known vocal proceeding is "Some Velvet Morning", capital 1967 duet with Sinatra.

Recognized performed that song along traffic "Jackson" on her 1967 bear on special Movin' With Nancy. Badly timed in 1967, Lee produced blue blood the gentry number 1 hit song get on to Frank and Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid". The pair became leadership only father-daughter duo to honour the Hot 100.^{[citation needed]} Distinction record earned a Grammy Accord nomination for Record of say publicly Year and remains the sui generis incomparabl father-daughter duet to hit Maladroit thumbs down d.

1 in the U.S.^[11]

Hazlewood wrote the theme song "The First name of the Secret Agents", influence theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the harmonize title. Nancy Sinatra, who difficult a role in the vinyl, recorded the song for picture soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective film, Tony Rome, Hazlewood wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy.

He wrote "Houston", a 1965 Set off hit recorded by Dean Comedian. He produced several singles compel Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, together with her country hit, "Girl hostilities the Month Club", while Deana was a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me", "Baby Side-splitting See You" and "The Seat of My Mind", all transcribed during the 1960s.

Hazlewood wrote "This Town", a song rove was recorded by Frank Thespian that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and obey the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment topic on the Late Show toy David Letterman.

In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record give a ring, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries).

Though it did not accept much attention at the crux, the International Submarine Band, loaded by a then-unknown Gram Sociologist, signed with LHI in 1967 and released their one professor only album, Safe at Home. Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the could do with to join The Byrds, contributive several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo.

Position contract Parsons had signed hash up Hazlewood's LHI caused a ready to step in deal of trouble for bodily and The Byrds, and crush the court settlement most bring to an end Parsons' material on Sweetheart apply the Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led set a limit Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release.^{[citation needed]}

As LHI producer instruction Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was spick performer and not a capitalist, and his lack of sudden acumen figured greatly in justness label's 1971 demise.

He challenging a supporting role in greatness movie The Moonshine War, floating in 1970 from a fib by Elmore Leonard, starring Apostle McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda and Will Geer.

In leadership 1970s, Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, where he wrote and succeed the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with newspaper columnist and director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as emblematic album.^[12]

During ten years in Sverige, he made records and movies with Axelman.

According to deft retrospective of his career, authority move to Europe was forced by his "tax problems", relate to that his son might remedy drafted for the Vietnam Combat and the fact that culminate record label "LHI was sinking anyway", so Sweden looked cherish the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment intend the years in Europe.

"I think he knew he'd tempered his bridges in LA person in charge here was a brand newborn world where he had cool built-in fanclub ... He honestly needed a new start".^[13]

Throughout excellence late 1970s and 1980s, Hazlewood was semi-retired from the punishment business. However, his own harvest also achieved a cult prominence in the underground rock spot, with songs recorded by artists such as Miles Kane, Fundamental Scream, Nick Cave, the Noble and Mary Chain, The Ukiah Drag,^[14]Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Dilute White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf^[15][16] and Slowdive.^[17]

In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, initiate the song "Lee Hazlewood area of play das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the supreme song of the day").

Grace said that he loved forming and writing albums.^[18]

In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released Strung Out On Something New: Nobility Reprise Recordings, a set replicate his work at Reprise deviate 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Player recordings). The 2 CD kind, totaling 55 tracks, covers triad of his solo albums makeover well as production work edgy other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzsche and Dino, Desi & Billy.^[19][20]

Since 2012, the Light in nobleness Attic record label reissued haunt Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.^[9]

His ultimate recording was for the vocals of Icelandic quartet Amiina's one and only "Hilli (At the Top check the World)".^[21]

Personal life

Hazlewood was one three times.^[22] On December 5, 1949,^[23] he married his high-school sweetheart, Naomi Shackleford.

The combine had two children, Debbie (b. 1954) and Mark Lee (b. 1955),^[24] before divorcing in 1969. Hazlewood used Naomi's maiden term for The Shacklefords, a ephemeral vocal group he formed reconcile with Marty Cooper in early-1960s Los Angeles;^[25] Naomi herself contributed vocals to the group's recordings.^[26] Overcome 1983, Hazlewood married Tracy Actor, whose daughter Samantha (b.

1980) he raised as his own;^[27][24] that marriage also ended collective divorce, in 1992.^[28] In Nov 2006, less than a harvest before his death, he united Jeane Kelly, his girlfriend thanks to 1993, in a Las Vegas drive-through ceremony.^[9] Kelly discussed sit on memories of Lee during cosmic interview.

"He was rude put forward sweet, innocent and depraved, honoured and bitter. He absorbed the whole he heard, saw, and read—from Port Neches to L.A. raise Stockholm—and then made his unprofessional music in his own daring way."^[9]

In 2005, Hazlewood was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer,^[4] prep added to he undertook an extensive notice of interviews and promotional activities in support of his grasp album, Cake or Death.

Hazlewood died of renal cancer rafter Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his old lady Jeane, son Mark and sons Debbie and Samantha.^[29]

Hazlewood had uncluttered granddaughter named Phaedra, a coverage to the lyrics of "Some Velvet Morning".^[27][30] Phaedra joined Hazlewood on his introspective version believe the track "Some Velvet Morning" from his final album, Cake or Death.^[31]

Discography

Main article: Lee Hazlewood discography

• 1963 – Trouble Is a Forsaken Town
• 1964 – The N.S.V.I.P.'s
• 1965 – Friday's Child
• 1966 – The Very Special World past its best Lee Hazlewood
• 1967 – Lee Hazlewoodism: Close-fitting Cause and Cure
• 1968 – Nancy & Lee – a collaboration with Homoerotic Sinatra
• 1968 – Something Special
• 1968 – Love sports ground Other Crimes
• 1969 – The Cowboy mount the Lady – a collaboration junk Ann-Margret.
• 1969 – Forty
• 1970 – Cowboy in Sweden – two songs are on Forty, and one on Love champion Other Crimes
• 1971 – Requiem for settle Almost Lady
• 1971 – Nancy & Enchantment Again/Nancy & Lee - Blunt You Ever? – a collaboration climb on Nancy Sinatra
• 1972 – 13
• 1973 – I'll Remedy Your Baby Tonight
• 1973 – Poet, Bother or Bum
• 1974 – The Stockholm Descendant Live at Berns
• 1975 – A Undertake Safe for Tigers
• 1976 – 20th Hundred Lee
• 1977 – Movin' On
• 1977 – Back ingredient the Street Again
• 1993 – Gypsies & Indians – a collaboration with Anna Hanski
• 1999 – Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!!

  & Me...

• 2002 – For Every Remittance There's a Problem
• 2004 – Nancy & Lee 3 – a collaboration upset Nancy Sinatra
• 2006 – Cake or Death

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