29-406: " Summer Wine " is a song written by Lee Hazlewood . Hazlewood originally performed it with Suzi Jane Hokom, but it was his 1967 version with Nancy Sinatra that would prove more successful. In 1969 Lee Hazlewood performed the song on Swedish television with Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist on the Together programme, which was also was shown at Montreux festival. Lyrically, "Summer Wine" describes
58-462: A brand new world where he had a built-in fanclub ... He really needed a new start". Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Hazlewood was semi-retired from the music business. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such as Miles Kane , Primal Scream , Nick Cave , the Jesus and Mary Chain , The Ukiah Drag, Beck , Baustelle ,
87-563: A cover of the song in 2013. The Canadian singer Cœur de pirate recorded a cover for "Summer Wine", which was used on the "Trauma" TV series soundtrack. On September 11, 2019, French singer Clara Luciani and Alex Kapranos ( Franz Ferdinand ) performed an English/French cover version of Summer Wine at Olympia in Paris. The cover was officially released in July 2020. Lee Hazlewood Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007)
116-469: A man, voiced by Hazlewood, who meets a woman, Hokom/Sinatra, who notices his silver spurs and invites him to have wine with her. After heavy drinking, the man awakens hungover to find his spurs and money have been stolen by the mysterious woman. He then declares a longing for more of her "wine". The Nancy & Lee version was originally released on Sinatra's Nancy in London album in late 1966 and later as
145-560: A retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was motivated by his "tax problems", concern that his son might be drafted for the Vietnam War and the fact that his record label "LHI was dying anyway", so Sweden looked like the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment about the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA and here was
174-571: A role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra 's 1967 detective film, Tony Rome , Hazlewood wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote " Houston ", a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin . He produced several singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin , including her country hit, "Girl of the Month Club", while Deana was a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me", "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind", all recorded during
203-699: A set of his work at Reprise from 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD collection, totaling 55 tracks, covers three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzsche and Dino, Desi & Billy . Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956 , which became available in September 2019. His last recording
232-512: A story by Elmore Leonard , starring Patrick McGoohan , Richard Widmark , Alan Alda and Will Geer . In the 1970s, Hazlewood moved to Stockholm , where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and director Torbjörn Axelman , which also later emerged as an album. During ten years in Sweden , he made records and films with Axelman. According to
261-559: A then-unknown Gram Parsons , signed with LHI in 1967 and released their one and only album, Safe at Home . Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the band to join The Byrds , contributing several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo . The contract Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great deal of trouble for himself and The Byrds, and in the court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of
290-512: The 2000 album Sheffield ), Jack Grace and Moimir Papalescu and The Nihilists (with the male and female parts switched). A cover version by Ville Valo & Natalia Avelon , recorded for the soundtrack of Das Wilde Leben , was the 4th best-selling single of 2007 in Germany and was certified Platinum by the BVMI . "Summer Wine" was also covered by Ed Kuepper and Clare Bowditch on
319-618: The B-side of her " Sugar Town " single in December 1966. The song itself became a hit, reaching No. 49 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in April 1967. It also reached No. 14 in Australia. In early 1968, "Summer Wine" was included on Sinatra and Hazlewood's album of duets, Nancy & Lee LP . It was the first of Sinatra and Hazlewood's string of hit duets. The original single was in mono, and
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#1732772306327348-575: The 1960s. Hazlewood wrote " This Town ", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer 's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman . In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record label, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Though it did not receive much attention at the time, the International Submarine Band , led by
377-596: The 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma , on July 9, 1929. Hazlewood's father was an oil worker and had a sideline as a dance promoter; Hazlewood spent most of his youth living in Oklahoma , Arkansas , Kansas , and Louisiana . His mother was half Creek . Lee grew up listening to pop and bluegrass music . He spent his teenage years in Port Neches, Texas , where he
406-499: The Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn . This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release. As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was a performer and not a businessman, and his lack of business acumen figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise. He had a supporting role in the movie The Moonshine War , released in 1970 from
435-554: The Tubes , Thin White Rope , Yonatan Gat , Zeena Schreck / Radio Werewolf and Slowdive . In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B. 's first solo album, Bingo , on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day"). He said that he loved producing and writing albums. In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released Strung Out On Something New: The Reprise Recordings ,
464-459: The cult Australian music game show RocKwiz . A Flemish cover called Toverdrank (Magic Potion) (on the album Een man zoals ik (English: A man like me) was performed by Guido Belcanto and An Pierlé in 2011. An Icelandic cover called Sumarást (Summer love) was released by Hljómsveit Ingimars Eydal in 1968 and by Helgi Björnsson and Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir in 2007 for the movie Astrópía . American singer Lana Del Rey released
493-597: The group's recordings. In 1983, Hazlewood married Tracy Stewart, whose daughter Samantha (b. 1980) he raised as his own; that marriage also ended in divorce, in 1992. In November 2006, less than a year before his death, he married Jeane Kelly, his girlfriend since 1993, in a Las Vegas drive-through ceremony. Kelly discussed her memories of Lee during an interview. "He was rude and sweet, innocent and depraved, proud and bitter. He absorbed everything he heard, saw, and read—from Port Neches to L.A. to Stockholm—and then made his own music in his own defiant way." In 2005, Hazlewood
522-591: The number 1 hit song for Frank and Nancy Sinatra " Somethin' Stupid ". The pair became the only father-daughter duo to top the Hot 100. The record earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the U.S. Hazlewood wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents", the theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the same title . Nancy Sinatra, who had
551-689: The song was covered by Kela Gates in Spanish with the Peruvian band Los Belkings with the title Néctar de verano . In 1967 the French Canadian Robert Demontigny with Claude Valade covered this song in French with the title Vin d'été . A French cover called "Le Vin de l'été" was released by Marie Laforêt and Gérard Klein in 1969 (French lyrics by Eddy Marnay ). A Hebrew cover called also "Yen Kayitz" (=Summer Wine)
580-489: The stereo LP versions had vocals only in the right channel. A new stereo remix with centered vocals debuted on the 1986 Nancy Sinatra compilation CD The Hit Years , and has appeared on several other releases since then. This version runs 4:14. In May 2017, retail clothier H&M used Nancy & Lee's version in their "The Summer Shop 2017" ad campaign and as a result, the track debuted at No. 1 on Billboard magazine and Clio's Top TV Commercials chart for May 2017. In 1968
609-829: The track "Some Velvet Morning" from his final album, Cake or Death . Helgi Bj%C3%B6rnsson Helgi Björnsson (born 10 July 1958), often referred to as Helgi Björns , is an Icelandic actor and pop/rock musician. He has released several albums with his own band Helgi Björns Og Reiðmenn Vindanna. He was also a lead vocalist for the Icelandic bands Grafík and for Síðan skein sól (also known as SSSól). As an actor, he has appeared as Arngrímur Árland in Atómstöðin , Moli in Sódóma Reykjavík , detective Hans Carlsson in Daryush Shokof's Hitler's Grave , and
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#1732772306327638-456: The truckers". She later described him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud ". Hazlewood also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe", " Sugar Town " and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is " Some Velvet Morning ", a 1967 duet with Sinatra. He performed that song along with " Jackson " on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy . Early in 1967, Lee produced
667-630: Was a hit in the US and in the UK. Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, " These Boots Are Made for Walkin' " and " Summer Wine ", the latter first recorded with Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966. His collaboration with Nancy Sinatra began when Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help guide his daughter's career. When recording "These Boots are Made for Walkin'", Hazlewood suggested to Nancy Sinatra, "you can't sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for
696-415: Was already writing songs and formed his own record label, Viv. Hazlewood was initially known as a producer and songwriter. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was " The Fool ", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1955. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy , producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records. " Rebel Rouser ", released in 1958
725-512: Was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s. His collaborations with Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia " or "saccharine underground". Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra No. 9 on its list of
754-527: Was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer , and he undertook an extensive round of interviews and promotional activities in support of his last album, Cake or Death . Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada , on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha. Hazlewood had a granddaughter named Phaedra, a tribute to the lyrics of "Some Velvet Morning". Phaedra joined Hazlewood on his introspective version of
783-709: Was exposed to a rich Gulf Coast music tradition. He studied for a medical degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas , Texas . He served with the United States Army during the Korean War . Following discharge from the military in 1953, Hazlewood did not return to his studies. He worked as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix . During that time, he
812-589: Was for the vocals of Icelandic quartet Amiina 's single " Hilli (At the Top of the World) ". Hazlewood was married three times. On December 5, 1949, he married his high-school sweetheart, Naomi Shackleford. The couple had two children, Debbie (b. 1954) and Mark Lee (b. 1955), before divorcing in 1969. Hazlewood used Naomi's maiden name for The Shacklefords, a short-lived vocal group he formed with Marty Cooper in early-1960s Los Angeles; Naomi herself contributed vocals to
841-467: Was released by Chava Alberstein and Dani Litani in 1976 to the translation of Ehud Manor . The song was later covered by: Demis Roussos with Nancy Boyd , The Corrs featuring Bono (on the 2002 live album VH1 Presents: The Corrs, Live in Dublin ), Ultima Thule , Gry with FM Einheit and his orchestra, Anna Hanski & Lee Hazlewood , Evan Dando & Sabrina Brooke , Scooter (on
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