Lee Hazlewood

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Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) 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.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added a resonance to his music.

His collaborations with Nancy 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".

Early life

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. Lee spent his teenage years in Port Neches, Texas, where he 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.

Personal life

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 1961. 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 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."

Hazlewood had a granddaughter named Phaedra, a tribute to the lyrics of "Some Velvet Morning". Phaedra joined Hazlewood in his introspective version of the track "Some Velvet Morning" from his final album, Cake or Death.

In 2005, Hazlewood 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.

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Career

Since being demobilized after being released from service in 1953, he did not return to his studies. Hazlewood began as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona, and then moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix two years later. Viva was still writing songs and establishing his own record label at that time.

Hazlewood was first known as a producer and songwriter. Sanford Clark, a British musician, appeared on "The Fool" for his first hit single as a producer and songwriter in 1955.

Duane Eddy, the pioneering rock guitarist, was involved in the creation and co-writing of a number of hit instrumental albums. "Rebel Rouser," released in 1958 in the United States and the United Kingdom, was a hit; Eddy would soon have another 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn," "Forty Miles of Bad Road," and "Shazam!" "Dance With The Guitar Man" is a film that was on display in the schoolhouse.

Hazlewood is perhaps best known for authoring and releasing the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and "Summer Wine," were two hits on the latter, the first recording of Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966.

When Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help guide his daughter's academic path, he began. "You can't sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more," Hazlewood said to Nancy Sinatra while recording "These Boots are Made for Walkin." To be a good trucker, you'll have to sing. "Part Henry Higgins and Part Sigmund Freud" was later described by the woman as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud."

"How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin," "Friday's Children," "So Long, Babe," "Sugar Town," and many others for Sinatra were all written by Hazlewood. "Some Velvet Morning," a 1967 duet with Sinatra, is one of his most well-known vocal performances. On her 1967 television special "Mackson" with Nancy, he performed the song along with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. Lee recorded "Somethin' Stupid" for Frank and Nancy Sinatra in 1967. The pair became the first father-daughter pair to top the Hot 100. The record received a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year, and it remains the only father-daughter duet to reach No. 1 in the United States. In the United States, the nation has ranked the 1 in the United States.

The last of the Secret Agents", Hazlewood's theme song on the same title, was written by Hazlewood. Nancy Sinatra, a participant in the film, produced the song for the soundtrack. Tony Rome, Hazlewood wrote the theme song for Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective film, as well as the Nancy's version of the movie.

Dean Martin's 1965 US hit "Houston" wrote him. Deana Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, appeared on "Girl of the Month Club," her country hit, when Deana was a child. "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind," among other items on the project, were also recorded during the 1960s.

Hazlewood wrote "This Town," a song that appeared on Frank Sinatra's album "Greatest Hits" in 1968 and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Hazlewood's own record label, LHI Records, was established in 1967 (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Despite the fact that it attracted little interest at the time, the International Submarine Band, led by a then-unknown Gram Parsons, signed with LHI in 1967 and released their one and only album, Safe at Home. Parsons left the band to appear on The Byrds, contributing multiple tracks to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Parsons' word on Sweetheart of the Rodeo was causing a lot of anxiety for himself and the Byrds, and in the court deal most of Parsons' information on the parsons' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was deleted and recorded by Roger McGuinn. Parsons' departure from the Byrds just a few years after the album was announced. Hazlewood was an entertainer not a businessman, not a businessman, and his lack of corporate acumen played a large role in the label's demise in 1971. He appeared in the film The Moonshine War, which came from a story told by Elmore Leonard starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, and Will Geer.

Hazlewood and his friends and producer Torbjörn Axelman founded the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden in the 1970s, which later became an album.

He made records and films with Axelman during ten years in Sweden. According to a retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was fueled by his "tax issues," fear that his son would be drafted for the Vietnam War, and the fact that his music label "LHI was dying anyway," so Sweden seemed to be the logical escape route. Suzi Jane Hokom, a decade later, made this comment about the years in Europe. "I believe he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA, and here was a brand new world with a built-in fanclub." He needed a fresh start."

Hazlewood was semi-retired from the music industry in the late 1970s and 1980s. However, Rowland S. Howard, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, tees, Einstürzende Neubauten, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, and Slowdive were among his own hits on the underground rock scene, including songs by Rowland S. Howard, Lott, KMFDM, KMFDM,

Hazlewood performed on Bela B. in 2006. Bingo, Lee Hazlewood undidden day's debut album, is the first solo album of the day. He said he enjoyed making and writing albums.

Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records' Strung Out On Something New: Strung Out On Something New, a collection of his Reprise from 1964-68 (excluding Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD set, which includes three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzsche, and Desi & Billy.

Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label has reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which first appeared in September 2019.

His last recording was for the vocals of Icelandic quartet Amiina's album "Hilli (At the Top of the World)".

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