Needless to say that Nancy Sinatra's song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" is a classic. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim that this song is her trademark song. But let's see the story behind this all-time classic song... "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" is a pop song written by Lee Hazlewood and recorded by Nancy Sinatra. It was released in February 1966 and hit #1 in the United States and United Kingdom Pop charts.
Nancy Sinatra was encouraged by Lee Hazlewood to sing the song as if she were a sixteen-year-old girl giving the brush-off to a forty-year-old man. Sinatra's recording of the song was made with the help of notable Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. This session included Hal Blaine on drums, Al Casey, Tommy Tedesco, and Billy Strange on guitars, Ollie Mitchell, Roy Caton and Lew McCreary on horns, Carol Kaye on electric bass, and Chuck Berghofer on double bass, providing the notable bass line.
According to Al Casey: "Well, Lee and I had been friends forever, and he said: "I've got this song I'm working on, and I want the guitar to play this." And he showed me, because there's a little bit more than banging on an "E-chord", which is what most people do. There's more to it than that. He said: "I want you to do this on the song," and he sang the song and played the rhythm guitar lick, and I went: "Oh, that's cute!", little suspecting it was gonna be huge."
"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" was used on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). Sinatra also sang it on an episode of China Beach in the late-1980s. In 2005, Paul Revere & the Raiders recorded a revamped version of the song using Sinatra's original vocal track. It appeared on the CD Ride to the Wall, Vol. 2, with proceeds going to help Vietnam veterans.
In 2006, Pitchfork Media selected it as the 114th best song of the 1960s. Critic Tom Breihan described the song as "maybe the finest bitchy kiss-off in pop history".
Goodyear Tire and Rubber used portions of the song for its 1960s' ad campaign promoting its "wide boots" tires. Nancy Sinatra unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against Goodyear for using the song, insisting that it had violated her publicity rights.
The song is mentioned by title in The Stone Roses' song "Fools Gold" ("These boots were made for walking/The Marquis de Sade don't wear no boots like these").
The song also is featured in "Are You There, Chelsea?" episode 11(Boots, March 21-2012) of first season.
Check out the lyrics of the song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" below....
something you call love, but confess.
You've been a messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin'
and now someone else is gettin' all your best.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin' when you oughta be a changin'.
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
You keep playin' where you shouldn't be a playinand you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burnt.
Ha!
I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah
and what he knows you ain't HAD time to learn.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Are you ready boots? Start walkin'!
Source: Wikipedia
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