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The 60s were know for the sexual revolution. Many of the old restrictions were thrown out. Playboy was very popular and Hollywood dropped the restrictive Hayes code in '67 marking the beginning of modern films with more adult themes. The dancing in this video is similar to dancing in the Beach Blanket Bingo movies of the early 60s with Annette Funicello and other girls dancing in bikinis. You could see girls dancing in bikinis on tv along with Beach Boys playing songs so it wasn't uncommon by the time this video was made. Just checkout Ginger and Maryann's outfits from Gilligan's Island in the mid 60s. They could show a lot, but they couldn't show a belly button. Big tv no-no back then. Miniskirts were all the rage and yes, pantyhose did become somewhat common for a while.

*"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)",* written and originally performed by Cher, was covered wonderfully and with a totally different, haunting atmosphere by Nancy Sinatra, and it was Nancy Sinatra's version that was chosen by Quentin Tarantino for prominent placement in his 2003 movie, "Kill Bill Volume 1".

It's so bad... it's good!

Go-go dancing was a “thing” back then, and wasn’t particularly provocative. It was a dance number you looked forward to hearing in the clubs!

Creed Fisher once said, “if you have the right to burn my flag, I have the right to kick your ass”

The era was hot pants, go go boots, round dangling earrings, and fish net stockings. The sixties....

Back in 66 music videos weren’t easy to watch .. this song was huge on AM radio .. never saw this video until CZcams came along .. ck out Summer Wine

She'd just gone through a nasty divorce, then kind of made herself over and embarked on an independent musical career. She had several big hits, and hosted Hullabaloo too. She was a favorite, and is still with us.

You should react to "Bang Bang" (my baby shot me down). Made famous again by Tarantino in "Kill Bill."

I was a child in the 60s, and this song was so much fun to sing and dance to. Much like my own 10 year old daughter would later dance around to Brittney Spears. Nice? No. Fun? Yes. As far as mini-dresses go, remember this was the time of Star Trek and Lieutenant Uhura.

You are right. This was not the norm- the country was still pretty conservative.

..their genre, can be described as "Industrial Metal"..

The dresses at the beginning have always reminded me of what the women wore in the original Star Trek series.

I had a pair of go go boots that I tortured my mom for. I remember we went out in the snow. I feel terrible that my parents couldn’t afford them but I was relentless

Mini skirts and gogo boots were extremely popular in the 60's..

One of the best covers of this song is from the 2005 film "Kinky Boots". Based on a true story of how a struggling UK show manufacturer carved out a niche making boots for drag queens. Here is Chiwetel Ejiofor as "Lola" singing "These Boots are Made for Walking": czcams.com/video/Mwk75Fek3qs/video.htmlsi=7GZF3hmUhtXFgZzN

Check out Laugh In and Hee Haw for other examples of the sixties and seventies. Artists - check out Linda Ronstadt, Janice Joplin, Melanie, Lulu, and Cher…

The Sixties opened the floodgates that had built up during the Fifties...

😊❤ Hi Phil and Sam! 😅 This was fun! 😅 Sam, I agree this song was very simple and a small vocal range. I can't think of a song but I know she has more to offer. I think this was meant to be kind of 'campy' and empowering women. Like saying, don't be a doormat, be the boots!! And speaking of boots, Nancy was wearing go-go boots. My experience and memories were that go-go boots were at least knee high, and they expanded to include over the knee and thigh high. 😮😅 What cracks me up is that they could show this type of content in entertainment. However, I distinctly remember that in TV shows, comedy or drama if they showed a married couples bedroom it always had twin beds!! They were not allowed to show, or even suggest two people in bed together!! 🤯😂 It could be a bit confusing for me growing up in this era!! LOL 😂 Luv you guys!! 😊❤❤

Controversial but I prefer Nancy to Frank, you need to check out her duets with Lee Hazelwood which are fabulous plus she sang the best bond theme you only live twice she is great

Listen to the Wrecking Crew playing as session musicians. Great.

Well,we lived through the era of sexual appeal

If you ever watched "Full Metal Jacket" you heard this song. I think the video was made for video jukebox machines in bars.

The 80s folks were dressing retro. The 60s were all about pushing boundaries. Certainly in fashion. Mini-skirts and Go-Go boots.

Nope. It wasn’t pushing the bounds. It was just part of the 60’s scene.

Another good song bang bang my baby shot me down

This was normal attire for young females starting in the mid sixties….this fashion called Mod originated in England…that grew into the Hot Pants fashion craze later that decade….

In the 60s, 70, women were required to wear dresses or skirts and panty hose or nylons. In 50s and 60s newspapers still separated job ads by sexes, one colum said male only, the other female. It hasnt been That long ago.

I'm a Rush lover, Xanadu is the song I want played at my funeral, I hope you cover/react to that at some point.

...and did you know that the german emperor Wilhelm, the russian zar Nikolaus and the british king George were all cousins?

Now, do the Prince version….

Country version of a late Tina Turner performance 🎭

The 60’s were my school years and the influences were wild. Besides what others have already said there was the “bra-burning” and no-bra days, hippies, Haight-Ashbury, communes, mind-expansion through drug use, Vietnam, etc, etc. Crazy times!

Fembots! 😂

Asia and the African fronts joining were mainly because of the colonization you lad large portion of the citizen originally from Europe or had unequal trade agreements where raw materials came from in Japans case they had little natural resources and what was there was being taken for war effort to other countries so lots of smaller nations joined ally’s of big nations in hopes of a quick end and better trade deals after

This came out when I was in 6th grade. No pants and certainly no blue jeans were allowed in school and stockings or opaques were mandatory- no bare legs! Our skirts could be no shorter than three inches from touching the floor when kneeling or we were sent home to change. By the time I graduated we were into mini-skirts, hot pants, and bell bottoms. More than a decade of assassinations, war, and the draft were finally ending and we graduated into the early 70s with gentle singer-song writers (don't miss out on Dan Fogelberg- "The Same Auld Lang Syne" "Leader of the Band" and "Old Tennessee") herbal tea, Boz Scaggs, and Kansas.

I wouldn't have considered it provocative. It was the Swinging '60s. This was just the fashion of the time. She also did the title song for the Bond film "You Only Live Twice".

Hey Youngsters, welkom to the free world of the late sixties, Please spread Love and Freedom, time of NO Boundaries, Flowerpower, Twiggy, free thinking and Blowing in the Wind. The late sixties will never get back, the start of [Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll] she had no problems [so far as i know] it was the time of BB [Brigit Bardot] and Sofia Loren, here in the Netherlands was begin 70's the first nude on television. Frank Sinatra has other problems through his good relations with the wrong Family's [mob], there was almost every month a picture in the newspaper where he stood next to a Italian mobster [so said the newspaper] . I find Frank a good singer but i like Dino more, Dean Martin [Dino as they called him] has a warmer sound and his Italian Dialect give his songs more scuasshh!! [romantic], she had more songs [Bang Bang, my baby shot me down] and songs with Lee Hazlewood, [Summer Wine, Jackson] and with her father [Something Stupid] [there were 2 music clips one with her father and one with her brother]. Go Youngsters and discover the Sixties.

There is a song by The Monkeys called Im a believer.One of the videos have dancing girls.It is sort of like gogo dancing.

This song was made famous again in the 1989 Vietnam war movie Full Metal Jacket. Great scene

Loved her in Speedway with Elvis !

Era was mini skirts and hotpants.

I remember when Nancy sang that back in the day... She had a nice little run with that song as I remember... Around that time she also did a movie with Elvis Presley and was romantically linked to him for a short time which her dad didn't like too much... As others have already probably commented, she did a duet with her dad that she got a little mileage from also to help her career...If memory serves, she was 44 when she tried to make a comeback in the music industry and once again her dad helped out by making appearances with her now and then to help boost her comeback career but it didn't work out for her and she kind of faded out of the limelight eventually only to do guest appearances on the occasional tv variety show... That's what I can recall from memory...however, the Google fact checkers that scan the comments looking to correct someone to feel important no doubt will give you exact dates and details after their research on google... Great reaction guys... See you on the next one... Keep being awesome !!!...

This was kind of a novelty song, she actually had a nice voice in serious songs, " Something Stupid " with her dad an some really great duets with Lee Hazelwood. "Some Velvet Morning " springs to mind.

George's "Heartbreak" song!

Hey G.I. got girlfriend in Vietnam?

I remember seeing this on TV back in the day. I was at an impressionable age and that's why I remember this so clearly now at age 67 lol

I don't have much knowledge of Nancy's song, but first one that comes to my mind is always the theme song of James Bond movie "You only live twice." And other one is this song. Every time I hear this song the movie Full metal jacket comes to my mind. But You should check You Only Live Twice too!

She’s got more legs than a bucket of chicken

You need to check out his version of You can leave your hat on