NANCY SINATRA - Sugar Town 1967
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- Nancy Sinatra and her superhit "Sugar Town", a super 60's hit. The song peaks number 5 in 1966 on Billboard's Pop Hot 100 and number 1 in Pop Adult Contemporary. It's taken from her album "Sugar''
Nancy recorded that song in 1966 as part of her album "Sugar", and the cover of the LP was censored in Boston, cause she looks a pink bikini on it. Nancy Sinatra is a diva in the 60's Rock panorama.
"Sugar Town" is a song written by songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by American singer Nancy Sinatra in 1966. As a single released under the Reprise label, it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1966, while reaching number one on the Easy Listening chart in January 1967.[1] It became a gold record. The song was included on Nancy Sinatra's LP, Sugar, also released in 1966, and was featured in her 1967 TV special Movin' with Nancy, released on home video in 2000.[2]
AllMusic.com reviewer Richie Unterberger describes "Sugar Town," Sinatra's second largest hit single, as “daintier” than the material for which she was known, with a “carefree” lyric backed by the “big hook” of a “circular happy-go-lucky pluck of a guitar” with “nicely muted horns and harpsichord” and “fetching double-tracking of Sinatra's voice on the slightly jazzy chorus.” A highlight, Unterberger writes, is the fadeout, where she dispenses with the lyrics and softly “la-las” the melody.
Nonetheless, “Sugar Town was an LSD song if there ever was one,” Hazlewood recalled in an interview, pointing to the line “...Now I just lay back and laugh at the sun.” Hazlewood elaborated:
“ I was in a folk club in LA which had two levels. I could see these kids lining up sugar cubes and they had an eye-dropper and were putting something on them. I wasn’t a doper so I didn’t know what it was but I asked them. It was LSD and one of the kids said, 'You know, it’s kinda Sugar Town.' Nancy knew what the song was about because I told her, but luckily Reprise didn’t. ”
Gossip columnist Walter Winchell derided “Sugar Town” as having “the worst lyrics ever written in a top ten song.” “Hey, I spent a lotta time writing a bad lyric like that! The words are as stupid as I could get ‘em,” Hazlewood retorted. “I edit a lot, even the dumb songs. The dumb songs are the hardest to write. [“Sugar Town”] took me a while. I wanted the dumbest lyric ever written to a song, to a doper song.” Hazlewood singled out his lyric "I never had a dog that liked me some..." as being particularly inane.
Like other songs Hazlewood wrote, “Sugar Town” was deliberately enigmatic: directed to a young audience, yet outwardly tame enough to receive radio play (though he denied that he had ever used LSD, or regularly partaken in drugs in general). He explained, “You had to make the lyric dingy enough where the kids knew what you were talking about - and they did. Double entendre. But not much more if you wanted to get it played on the radio. We used to have lotsa of trouble with lyrics, but I think it’s fun to keep it hidden a little bit.”[3] "It was hard to put any other songs with 'Sugar Town'," Nancy remembers. "It was basically about LSD, but was not publicized as that. It was Lee's 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.' It went against my image...."
The B-side to "Sugar Town" was "Summer Wine", a popular duet featuring, and also written by, Hazlewood.
Such a great song from simpler happy times ...the 60s was THE best decade to grow up in
So, the new season of "Better Call Saul" started tonight & they open with a song that I immediately recognize & all I can think is these guys are genii to use "Sugar Town" by Nancy Sinatra. What a gem of a song.
Hello Laura, how are you doing ?
@@callumnye2562 asking strangers on the internet how they are doing, why?
SAME!
@@arcanea9598 Why did you write a comment for strangers to read. Silly girl, hypocrite, AND a misery guts.
First time hearing this song was from the TV Series "Better Call Saul." That's what brings me here. I'm 62 years old and never heard it before but hearing it now I instantly knew of it's simplicity and greatness. Youngsters these days have nothing like this, unfortunately.
Well we live in a world where this song exists so we do have something like this and it was used to perfection for better call Saul so what are you on about?
@@respectedgentleman4322 think album art. Youngsters will never know the joy of going to a record store and looking at the beautiful album art. This song comes from that place in time which today's youngsters will never relate to or know...
@@GreatDXR Record shops still exist and bands still release their albums on vinyl. Most oldies are pretty out of touch with society these days, unfortunately.
@@lukeshysquawker1289 Vinyl outsold CDs last year too. And music like this absolutely still does exist and plenty of other good music is also made. Kinda tired of this musical elitism from older generations.
@@cidsx lighten up dude you know exactly what I mean. The vinyl and CDs you are talking about probably account for less than 1% of all music sales. The average youngster knows absolutely nothing about this.
Happy 84th to Nancy Sinatra ❤❤❤❤❤❤
In May of 1966 I landed in this country called Vietnam. I was a young 19 year Latino from South Central Los Angeles. If it wasn't for the music that we heard over the radio I'm not sure how well we military folks would have made it.
So to all the great musicians and great groups like the Young Rascals who gave us...."It's a Beautiful Morning".....you helped a lot of young soldiers make it through another day over there. And those who God blessed and allowed us to come home to listen to more music of the next generation.
I remember coming back home and went right back to my old job as a cashier at ABC Market in West Los Angeles and listening to this song call "ABC". The lead singer was a young boy called Michael Jackson.
I was seven years old when this song was released and I absolutely loved it. Forty-two years later it brings back very happy memories of hot sunny days and blindingly bright skies here in Australia.
how are u doing man? ur coment was texted when i was 3. im 16 now…
@@user-ft8yo7qs2q same with me
I wasn't born yet 😅
I become 13 On june
I was 6 yours old
You're my age.....
I had such a hard crush on Nancy. I turned 11 around Thanksgiving '67. But then years later I sure liked when Zoey DeChannel did this song too.
Nancy Sinatra brought me here.....
The Groovy Side Of the Tube i love your comment
haha brilliant I was just thinking how so many people are drawn here from other references. Nothing wrong with that btw! Enjoy the music :)
I never heard of better call saul btw I am old bought this in the 60s crushing on nancy.
You need to listen to You Only Live Twice from the season five finale of MAD MEN.
Yes, CZcams is like that!
Nancy Sinatra is a very talented singer! A great voice & a beautiful Lady!
Yes, she could actually sing.
Sorry, dear reader- I've said it before- but I just can't get enough of this song. Thank you, Better Call Saul for brining this gem into my life. ❤🍻
6 Feet Under, season 5 episode 5 "Eat a Peach"
These Boots Were Made For Walking, Nancy"s first song I ever heard
Nancy Sinatra wearing white vinyl go-go boots - you can't get much more '60s than that.
That was so hot! Take back to 67, f*** 2020 and Covid19
And singing about LSD. Hazel wood was wonderfully subversive.
Oh yeah!!!
@@miklmiklmtrcycl6009 Haha I didn't think this song was about acid. Not with a name like Sugar Town.
@@Slig1977 at the time it was common sold as a few drops on a sugar cube. Research my friend.
The 1960s...by *far* the best decade for music!
Absolutely
The 80s better❤
@@hicksteadearth620680s are more dance
60s is more exploration and new sound and deffenitely many many talents who become legend and icon
@@jayanirmala-lo3vp yes, 60s were sweet too
And music video , and hair styles and clothes for women.
Will take this song over what is pumped out today. Thanks to real talent like Nancy and the song writers, producers of yesteryear.
Nancy Sinatra was fantastic. She built a fantasy world for us in her videos while singing her wonderful songs.
Beautiful Nancy !!!!! Nancy , God bless you & yours , always .
makes me want to cook some cinnabon rolls
You're goddamn right.
Does it want to make you become a crooked lawyer who is running from the Cartel?
@@stevenhair6156 it kinda does,lol
You mean sugar bombs?
😂🤣😄
LOVE LOVE LOVE this song and 500 days of summer
Who's here from the Better Call Saul S3 premiere?
SuperWillHatch 🤘
SuperWillHatch me:) chill in this track...
SuperWillHatch yep
I thought i was the only one !
ME!
Nancy Sinatra is literal doll .. this couldn’t be anymore 60’s , we need a remastered this video !
BEAUTIFUL AND SKINNY LIKE A BOUTIQUE MANNEQUIN IS NANCY....Greetings from Argentina
Nancy Sinatra brought me here ❣️
I'm here because I want to listen to Nancy Sinatra.
It's my favorite by her.
Man those boots were made for walking!!!
You're here in shu shu shu, shu shu shu, shu shu shu shu shu shu sugar town :)
Same here
@@Jokaanan
she was a pretty good singer, too. I actually liked her version of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE from James Bond's movie. She didn't exactly "belt" a song, but I liked her style and voice...they went together
Nancy was such a hottie in her day!!!
grandma was a hottie
She was hot and she seems to be a nice person (I've seen her interviewed)but she was at best a mediocre singer (and I'm being very generous)without Lee Hazlewoods great songs well produced records and of course her father she would have never made it
This is in my permanent memory,I was five in '67 and my Mom played the radio all the time."These Boots" is my favorite Nancy Sinatra song,great trumpets!
Hello Teresa, how are you doing?
Yes, "GREAT TRUMPET'S" ❤ IT! I WAS SO CARE FREE AND YOUNG, BACK THEN. 66YEAR'S OLD NOW!! STILL ❤ IT!!!😉
those eyes and smile! she could make your heart melt, beautiful voice.
Hermosa canción!! Vengo por "500 Days Of Summer" me encantó. 💖
Si claro 👍
Es mejor en better call saul
no sabía que aparecía en esa peli.. yo vine por Better Call Saul 🥳
I like her outfit, even if it isn't exactly ideal for ballooning or hiking.
hey, it is if you have a film crew along
Ideal for a ho stroll, though
It all depends on what kind of ballooning or hiking that you're doing. : )
The days of the mini-skirts; it was an awesome time!
Priceless. (Your comment.)
She was an absolute knockout! I can remember seeing her on TV in 1965 when I was 13 yrs old. She turned my insides to mush!
Nancy Sinatra was, this song was terrible
Are you still here
THIS SONG IS CALM AND PEACEFUL I REALLY LOVE IT
This song came out right before my first son was born in 67. I loved it cause it was so easygoing. I still love it.
Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤
Remember being 8 and listening to Nancy Sinatra my dad had her records and reel to reel tapes I still have them I’m turning 60 in 2020 seems like yesterday I was kid with headphones on and listened to her while in my little rocking chair
thats crazy to think about. im 22 and i know how that feels
She does not miss a note with her voice which is rare now.
Uhh . . . Whose her Daddy??
When I was in 1st grade, I listened to Nancy every afternoon after school. This song really brings back that time.
Just an incredibly classic song ,sung by a classic singer, brings back memories and what a beautiful era that was !!!!
Thanks .
So true...
Congratulations...a great pleasure realize, we concour on life's opinions....
Awesome era for music it was but a beautiful era? Viet Nam, riots-Watts and all over the US, JFK and Bobby Kennedy, MLK killings Cold war going near hot with Bay of Pigs, Cuba Civil Rights movement just for starters! The Golden era was the 50's but anyhow I understand what you are meaning.
@@joeleblanc6617 true...awesome era...beautiful time that unfortunately, won't be seen again...at least, not by us...hummm...quite sad...too bad...
@@gilbertorosales5317 - To everyone who gets old, they always pretend the era they grew up in was the best
Anyone in 2024!?
Yep 😊
Why does anybody need to be reminded of the horrible year we're living in, when watching a song from the past, from NINETEEN SIXTY-SEVEN?!?
It was in an episode of Better call Saul that I just watched.
Yes, I am in the year 2024 but I do remember the year 1967. I was senior in high school. This song is about pure happiness. wouldn't it be wonderful if we could have revival of the spirit of the 60s. It is never to late for it to happen again!
Me! Memories!
still does it for me and trillions of you out there, the innocence yet so mind - blowing, the 1960's forever the best!!
"say nothing! you understand!? GET A LAWYER!!" - Gene, Cinnabon manager
musyarofah1 "Asshole." :D
Mr. Hazlewood and his beautiful songs
Wow! He wrote this one too?! This is the third one I heard he’s written for Nancy as well as for himself and Nancy together. So far, Some Velvet Morning and Summer Wine were written by him too. I wonder if he wrote ALL their songs. Great songwriting too!
@@dianefiske-foy4717 Yes, he wrote that one too!!
Look, it's very likely that he composed almost all of Nancy's songs, as Lee has a catalog of more than 300 compositions. I would like to know where this man's creativity comes from!!
@@isa_.mantovani … Yeah, I’d like to know that too.
And gorgeous wife. :-)
In summer "66, we had just moved to Tennessee from Florida when this came out. The song helped me to feel less homesick.
When I die I just want to live in this music video for eternity
@sabbracadabra yeah and you can do all the coke you want to in there too.
As of now I'm vacationing in a sleepy rural town in South America. Nancy sums up this place beautifully with this song.
Sounds very Pleasant my friend enjoyed
Lyrics:
I got some troubles but they won't last
I'm gonna lay right down here in the grass
And pretty soon all my troubles will pass
'cause I'm in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
I never had a dog that liked me some
Never had a friend or wanted one
So I just lay back and laugh at the sun
'cause I'm in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
Yesterday it rained in Tennessee
I heard it also rained in Tallahassee
But not a drop fell on little old me
'cause I was in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
If I had a million dollars or ten
I'd give to ya, world, and then
You'd go away and let me spend
My life in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
la-la-la-la to end
How innocent those days were
blink blink t h a n k u
I absolutely love Nancy Sinatra
I love the Hazlewood-Sinatra connection! What a great duo they made. RIP Lee, love your music!
Who is still listening to this in 2024? My heart, mind, and soul still live between 1964-67. Best music, Best muscle cars, Best and hottest women!
I was only a young boy during the late 60s but I remember hearing this and other 💎 not only songs by Nancy but also the songs she did with Lee Hazelwood,a wonderful, magical era of music to grow up listening to Auckland New Zealand 2023
Man, what a GROOVY tune, I love Nancy and all of her tunes!
Nancy is cute,very cute.
Cute, no shes a STONE FOX.
don't care what or who interprets this in whatever manner they like but it's a kick-ass song sung by the beautiful Nancy. it's pure 60's sweetness and that's good enough for me. you rock Miss Sinatra!!!
As a kid, I used to sing this song but now...listening to the lyrics ... I'm laying here in the grass.. laughing at the sun.. raining but not on me.. spend my life in.. Sugar Town? Yep... sounds like a psychedelic trip...
It /is/ about LSD laced sugar cubes lol
I got some troubles, but they won't last
I'm gonna lay right down here in the grass
And pretty soon all my troubles will pass
'Cause I'm in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
I never had a dog that liked me some
Never had a friend or wanted one
So I just lay back and laugh at the sun
'Cause I'm in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
Yesterday it rained in Tennessee
I heard it also rained in Tallahassee
But not a drop fell on little old me
'Cause I was in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
If I had a million dollars or ten
I'd give to ya, world, and then
You'd go away and let me spend
My life in shoo-shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town
Wow, how beatiful to hear this song again after 44 years, it just took me back to the 60's
Don't tell anything ! Get a lawyer ! Get a lawyer !
Jules Verne No we're from "Better fuck Gene"!
*asshole*
I love this comment
i know a guy who knows a guy.
@@slash7661 ha ha ha
Yes,thank God for such beauty and talent. Only abailable in the free world
What a delightful song from another world.
Talk about having a famous Dad.
Peter, you would need some money from somewhere to pay for the hairdressing, costumes, backdrop etc.
The simplicity of it makes it so precious ❤️❤️❤️
such a happy upbeat song, the 60,s were very special growing up
Oh ,to go back there again
I fell in love with Nancy as soon I saw and heard her voice. Sugar time--nothing like it, great melody. Nancy makes my heart cry.
Goofy, loopy, nonsensical ... and I love it. I've decided I'm going to download it and add it to my rotation of chill-out songs to listen to each night before my brain drifts into dreamland.
Just heard this song on Knock at the Cabin and took me back to when I was a little kid.
yeah absolutely I’ve been married for 32years I was 24 and she was 20. She got cancer in 2020 I was totally lost without her. She took a major hit the treatment was horrible for her. I could do nothing to change any thing so I felt helpless.. I miss her everyday. Mothers are the glue that holds everyone together.
seeing this makes me miss her even more 🥺
1967 reminds me of Vietnam this kind of music
500 days of summer anyone?
summer is a fucking bitch y_y !
Me
wait for autumn :)
mir dono of course!!! just watch the film xD
Devin S
She was gorgeous. before my time but so lovely and I loved her weird stuff with Lee Hazlewood
i was 8 years old when I first fell in Love
Thank god for CZcams. I just thought about this song to lift my spirits and found it in 3 seconds
A great singer & very underrated.
Remember this tune on the AM radio, driving from Michigan to Miami, with my parents and older sis..i was eight...super cool..!
She was my first crush. Can't believe it's been so many years ago. I never get tired of listening to her music. I wish I could've withstood the test of time like her songs though.
stuff the 200 ppl that disliked this song!! I always cry to this song but it makes me happy sometimes😊my nan passed away 1/02/2017😢 this is her song😊😊😏😍... I just wonna cry, cry and cry😭😭like what I'm doing rn!! maybe sometime I need to face the fact she's gone😔, but I can't!!😭the more I think about it? the more I miss her, the more I realise what she's done for me and the more I realise the time I wasted not being with her😭😭😭😭😭😭😭..... I love u sm nan😭😭😭💞💞💞💙💙... U COULD NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH I DO😭😭😭😭I MISS U😭WE ALL DO!! the family's just not the same without u we all feel empty and 1 big part of all of us has left😭😢... Iri Tekowhai my nan😘💙💞💕, I miss u all family😘
Thanks for your support and thanks to share your sorrow with me, I'm sending an embrace for you
boybblue thank u sm💞, and it's okay I love this song lucky u put it up😂😂haha thank u
Over 50 years, this song just popped into my head. As a kid, I thought Sinatra sang choo-choo town. Thanks for uploading!
Remembering a song from your past really gets your mind reflecting of days gone bye. Times were different then.
I am here from The Kid Detective. What a sweet song. Great movie, by the way!
Me too!
me too!
Better call saul
Yeah please watch The Kid Detective! Great bittersweet comedy movie!
Me too
Lovely song from a lovely gal always admired Nancy ft
I loved this song growing up and still love it, so beautiful ,sweet and innocent.
How can it be innocent when it is a drug song? Its about sugar cubes laced with LSD. Its just vague about it. Don't get me wrong, I love Nancy's music and I think this is one of her very pleasant songs to listen to, but as a lifelong drug free person who had friends who were harmed by them, I prefer to not think about its drug meaning. You aren't thinking about it either, but the difference is you seem unaware of the ominous meaning in the first place. I prefer to face facts. Now you may want to go back to just pretending its totally innocent and that is your right. I am not blaming you for not having researched its meaning or not realizing in the first place, but I thought after all these decades this should be said because of the wording of your comment. Why do you think the singer's character thinks troubles no longer exist just because she lay down, never wanted a friend and can't tell she was being rained on? Plus why she wanted to give away money to make the world go away? The effects of LSD. Due to this, I'd never presume the song was about Nancy herself, and I'm not trying to find out, because I'm a feminist and that would mean prying into her personal life. I think people of an age range like you clearly are deserve to not have the wrong impression. I doubt Chiemi Hori's big hit "Tokyo Sugar Town" was about LSD. Have a nice day.
I listen to this while I manage a Cinnabon in Omaha.
I love this song
It's never going to make it to 'classic' status, but it's just so evocative for people of a certain vintage. Absolutely love the memories it brings back !-)
Its a classic
I grew up with music like this. You know what? This is better than anything today.
This song makes me ha ha happy -;))
me too
And your comment just made me happy lol
I read that in Matthew McConaughey's voice
Marilyn Monroe Official Channel, by Peter Sneyder "you'ed go AWAY and let me SPEND..my life in sug sug sug sug sug sha sug sug..sugar town"..-brandon
I don't know why it's make me sad
And it's 2022, watching Better Call Saul S03 and the this amazing song is what they started the season with 👏
I remember my parents listening to this over and over again on road trips.
Hello Nathalie, how are you doing?
I love this song! What a great songwriter Lee Hazlewood was.
"Sugar Town" peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Dec. 1966, but hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart in Jan. 1967. This upcoming June 8 (2020), she will celebrate her 80th birthday! That can't be possible, can it? She will always be 26, as she was in mid-1966.
NANCY darlin, you kept me goin during both trips to nam (66, 67, 68) only 2 (they overlapped.) love your voice and choice of songs. Lee is the eptome of what a young man wants to sound like (kudos to Sam Elliot also). thanks, I really mean thanks
Thank you for your service!
@@grandpa1687 Agreed!
Was 16 when it came out. Liked it then. Still like it. Cuz I am in Sugar Town !
I’m here after being recommended to watch Kid Detective by Red Letter Media.
Great fkn movie. Thank you Jay and Mike, very cool
I love both Kid Detective and Better Call Saul, they both use this song REALLY well to show how bad the characters are doing on the inside even if they managed to survive their respective caper and should be “in sugar town”, so to speak.
I was only a kid in the 60's, but I can tell you, those were living times.
Captures the vibe of the era perfectly. Innocent and carefree for a little while longer, but not much longer.
I was 13 and living in Queensland when Nancy stired my red blood like all the other boys..this song brings it all back 54 years later and this song and nancy still does..love u nancy..
Good taste in music brought me here...
What ever happened to this era niceness serene nothing to care about and the class just beautifully done as always Nancy ❤️
I was 11, when i heard this song first. And I love it.. still..
She's beautiful! I wore out this 45 on the Reprise label, from my uncle Sal. Nancy Sinatra, the sexiest boot girl on the planet!
never heard this song before I heard it on Better call Saul too!
I surely recall this song surgar town
By Nancy Sinatra. I wax 8 in 1967
But some memories never die from our
Past. This is a good one !
My mom sang this all the time all the good oldies she could have neen a singer.I love you mom❤
Hello Christine, how are you doing?
She was so adorable😍
I love her outfit 😍😍
Wow she's so damn Beautiful!!!
GREAT SONG ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS FROM 1967
Great, lovely, just like her father.