Nancy Sinatra You Go Go Girl CD

Recorded between 1965 & 1969. Includes liner notes by DJ Andy Anderson.

Although it's missing her duet with her dad on "Something Stupid," this 16 track collection is just about all the Nancy Sinatra you'll ever need for the collection, as it covers all the bases from her truncated, but highly successful, career. Pitting the hits against album cuts and movie soundtrack entries, this shows that Nancy had a flair for putting over a song with a strong sexual undertone, doing it back in the mid 60s when such trailblazing was more open to criticism. Includes "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," "How Does Grab You, Darlin'?," "The Last Of The Secret Agents," You Only Live Twice," "Geronimo," and "Love Is Strange." ~ Cub Koda

Compilations that can't seem to decide whether they're greatest-hits anthologies or rarities collections don't really satisfy anybody, and that's the predicament in which this Nancy Sinatra CD finds itself. There are some hard-to-locate tracks here, like the campy, Lee Hazlewood-penned "Your Groovy Self," from the soundtrack to Elvis Presley's Speedway movie; the sub-standard Hazlewood composition "Happy," which made #74 in 1968, and eludes most Nancy Sinatra greatest-hits compilations; and the dispensable "Geronimo," which Sinatra sang in the 1965 movie The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. There are also a couple of unreleased tracks: an inessential Sinatra-Hazlewood duet cover of "Love Is Strange," and the forced astrology satire "Zodiac Blues," produced by Mickie Most. It's likely, though, that the fan who likes Nancy Sinatra enough to seek such rarities has most or all of the rest of the tracks, which mix a few of her smaller hit singles with LP cuts. First- or second-time Sinatra purchasers will be disappointed to find just one big hit, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," and possibly dismayed if they move on to greatest-hits collections and find that songs like "You Only Live Twice" (presented here in its single version) and "So Long, Babe" are duplicated. A better Sinatra rarities disc could probably be assembled, if that was the primary intention. ~ Richie Unterberger

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Audio Remasterer: Dan Hersch.

Arranger: Billy Strange.

Producers: Lee Hazelwood, Billy Strange, Mickie Most.

Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Nancy Sinatra, Hal Lifson.

Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.109) - "...conjuring the ambience of the smart American '60s chick about town....the shadow of sadness in Nancy's curious voice that gives these often daft pop songs their staying power."