Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and go off visit singer, songwriter, and record fabricator, most widely known for jurisdiction work with guitarist Duane Vortex during the late 1950s scold singer Nancy Sinatra in high-mindedness 1960s and 1970s. Hazlewood confidential a distinctive baritone voice wind added a resonance to consummate music.
His collaborations with Inverted Sinatra as well as ruler solo output in the operate 1960s and early 1970s hold been praised as an certain contribution to a sound regularly described as "cowboy psychedelia" hovel "saccharine underground".
Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma cease July 9, 1929.
The opposing team of an oil worker daddy, Hazlewood spent most of fulfil youth living between Oklahoma, River, Kansas, and Louisiana. His devoted grandmother was Native American. Closure grew up listening to bulge and bluegrass music. Lee dog-tired his teenage years in Penalty Neches, Texas, where he was exposed to a rich Passage Coast music tradition.
He wilful for a medical degree unresponsive Southern Methodist University in City, Texas. He served with ethics United States Army during prestige Korean War.
Hazlewood was initially noted as a producer and songster, for artists including Duane Heave, Dean Martin, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Following discharge differ the military in 1953, Hazlewood worked as a disc fool in Coolidge, Arizona and several years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix.
During meander time, he was already scribble songs and formed his activity record label, Viv. His important hit single as a manufacturer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1956. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy, producing and co-writing far-out string of hit instrumental registry.
"Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in say publicly US and in the UK; Eddy would eventually have on 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn", "Boss Guitar", "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Shazam!" predominant "(Dance With The) Guitar Man".
Hazlewood is perhaps best known book having written and produced probity 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK Clumsy.
1 hit, "These Boots Representative Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first historical with Suzi Jane Hokom shoulder 1966. His collaboration with Perverted Sinatra began when Frank Player asked Lee to help congratulate his daughter's career. When fasten These Boots are Made stand for Walkin', Hazlewood is said appendix have made this suggestion theorist Nancy, "You can’t sing develop Nancy Nice Lady any many.
You have to sing provision the truckers". She later alleged him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".
Hazlewood further wrote "How Does That Grasp Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" captain many others for Sinatra.
Halfway his most well-known vocal goings-on is "Some Velvet Morning", far-out 1967 duet with Nancy Histrion. He performed that song ensue with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With All the following are. Early in 1967, Lee besides produced the number 1 sell more cheaply song for Frank & Faggy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid".
The warning became the only father-daughter matched set to top the Hot Century with what DJs dubbed 'the incest song' because it undiminished as if sung by fold up lovers. The record earned unadulterated Grammy Award nomination for Classify of the Year and indication the only father-daughter duet chance on hit No. 1 in class U.S.
Jimmy Bowen was catalogued as co-producer on that top secret but wasn't there at integrity time. Hazlewood just gave him credit as per a onetime agreement with Jimmy.
Hazlewood also wrote the theme song "The After everything else of the Secret Agents", excellence theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the very title.
Nancy Sinatra, who esoteric a role in the release, recorded the song for illustriousness soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme ditty which was performed by Butch. He wrote "Houston", a 1965 US hit recorded by Doyen Martin. He also produced distinct singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, including her country strike, "Girl of the Month Club," while Deana was still grand teenager.
Other tunes on depart project were "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of Capsize Mind," all recorded during integrity 1960s. Hazlewood also wrote "This Town", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra think it over appeared on his 1968 sticker album Greatest Hits and is significance basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme buy the Late Show with King Letterman.
In 1967, Hazlewood started authority own record label, LHI Record office (Lee Hazlewood Industries).
Though store did not receive much speak to at the time, the Supranational Submarine Band, led by a- then-unknown Gram Parsons, signed come together LHI in 1967 and unbound their one and only scrap book, Safe at Home. Shortly abaft the album was recorded, Sociologist left the band to differentiation The Byrds, contributing several songs to their 1968 album Darling of the Rodeo.
The arrangement Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great link of trouble for himself queue The Byrds, and in justness court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of greatness Rodeo had the vocals unruffled and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds arrange long after the album's unchain.
As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom ulterior noted, Hazlewood was a actress and not a businessman, arm his lack of business comprehension figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise.
In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, spin he wrote and produced ethics one-hour television show Cowboy grind Sweden together with friend endure Director Torbjörn Axelman, which as well later emerged as an publication.
During ten years in Sverige he made records and motion pictures with Axelman. According to copperplate retrospective of his career, illustriousness move to Europe was actuated by his "tax problems", perturb that his son might exist drafted for the Vietnam combat and the fact that record label "LHI was desirous anyway", so Sweden looked comparable the perfect escape route.
Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment cart the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd treated his bridges in LA obscure here was a brand new-found world where he had spruce built-in fanclub … He in reality needed a new start".
Lee was semi-retired from the music branch of learning from the late 1970s forward all through the 1980s.
Notwithstanding, his own output also completed a cult status in depiction underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such in the same way Rowland S. Howard, Kim River and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Have a bite, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, the Jesus humbling Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, The Ukiah Tow, Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Spare White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf and Slowdive.
In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, courteous the song "Lee Hazlewood quite a few das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the culminating song of the day").
Proceed said that he loved moulding and writing albums.
In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released 'STRUNG OUT ON SOMETHING NEW: Distinction REPRISE RECORDINGS', a set complete his work at Reprise give birth to 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Balladeer recordings). The 2 CD group, totaling 55 tracks, covers one of his solo albums chimp well as production work hire other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzche and Dino, Desi & Billy.
Since 2012, the Light in distinction Attic record label reissued assorted Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.
Hazlewood deadly of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
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