You may have known her to be Frank Sinatra's daughter or the girl with the boots made for walking or you may not know her at all. You may know her by name because Lana Del Rey said she's one of her influences, that she's a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra" or because you heard a Glee version of her song so you looked for it in YouTube. Well either you know her or not is not really my problem.
Lately I've been
having trouble sleeping and exams are being thrown at me from all directions
and most of the sleepless nights I spend with the naughty little Sinatra girl.
I remember first hearing her on Sunday radio when I was just a kid. My mom used
to listen to the radio in full volume on Sunday mornings (1. music makes cleaning not that tiring 2.
the radio screaming early in the morning will definitely make us get out of bed
and help her).
I have a certain
inclination to women with deep and raspy singing voices (i.e. Kim Carnes has
the best raspy voice in her Bette Davis Eyes) and Nancy Sinatra is one of them.
She has this haunting seductive voice that gets even better because of the way
she stares, like she has a secret, like she's not happy at all and she has this
certain Nancy Sinatra swagger – a provocative yet square and glamorous bad
girl.
I have handpicked
fifteen songs that I like most. I swear it was really hard to keep it at
fifteen. Actually I was only planning to choose five, and then it became ten,
and now it's fifteen, and I thought to myself this has got to end. (It's hard
to rank them in number too.) Anyway,
tell me you didn't feel any fondness to her or her songs after taking the time
listening. Or not.
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15. Burning Down The
Spark – If you have watched Django Unchained, you'd probably couldn't help but
think about it while listening to the first parts of Burning Down the Spark.
And then it gets a bit jazzy cowboy with the strings and horns. And you'd probably
couldn't help but sing to "All these memories still come to haunt
me."
14. Sugar Town
(1967) – Zooey Deschanel has sung this and she has done good. This song is pink clouds, rainbows and cups of
sunshine in a sexy catsuit.
13. Let Me Kiss You
(2004) – Morrissey made this song for Nancy (a big plus!). It's Morrissey all
the way but it's Nancy through and through
12. Light My Fire
(1969) – It's not a secret that I love The Doors more than anything that's why
this cover is in the list. Too seductive and too lustful. That's all.
11. Kinky Love (1976)
– Though it sounds like a song from a chick flick, Kinky Love was allegedly
banned because of its highly suggestive content, "I need you kinky love. Take me inside
and let the honey slide." The 90's
cover by the Pale Saints is noteworthy.
