Nancy Sinatra - Lightning's Girl (1997)

Release Date: Feb 11, 1997

Though a little harder to find for North American and European consumers than Rhino's The Hit Years, this 26-track, single-disc Australian best-of has virtually everything from the Rhino compilation and then some. Besides all 18 songs from The Hit Years except "Tony Rome," this has eight additional tracks, making this the best-value Nancy Sinatra anthology. It should be noted that most of the additional nine tracks are not among Sinatra's very best efforts, several of them being country-flavored duets with producer Lee Hazlewood. Still, among those extras, the Sinatra-Hazlewood duets "Sundown, Sundown," "Paris Summer," and "Down from Dover" (the last of them a Dolly Parton cover) are good, and "Sand" -- the most notable omission from the Rhino set -- is one of the best and spookiest songs to feature both Sinatra and Hazlewood on vocals. Also among the extras is one of her better solo outings, "This Town." In fact, the only real disadvantage of this set is the absence of original release date and label information. Otherwise, it's a fine summary of the best work of a singer (and producer and songwriter) who put out some of the best pop-rock-country-folk kitsch of the 1960s, or of any other decade for that matter.

Track list:

01.Lightning's Girl

02.These Boots Are Made For Walki

03.How Does That Grab You Darling

04.Good Time Girl

05.You Only Live Twice

06.The Last Of The Secret Agents

07.So Long Babe

08.Sugar Town

09.Fridays Child

10.Jackson

11.Did You Ever

12.Summer Wine

13.Lady Bird

14.Some Velvet Morning

15.Sand

16.Love Eyes

17.Drummer Man

18.Somethin' Stupid

19.I've Been Down For So Long

20.Sundown Sundown

21.Down From Dover

22.One Hundred Years

23.Paris Summer

24.Hook And Ladder

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