Nancy Sinatra - Nancy In London ‘69 Mini-Documentary

[Music] in 1969 Nancy received a call from her friend famed British record producer Micky most he wanted to cut some tracks with her Mickey was behind Timeless hits like Donovan's Mellow Yellow Lulu's tsur With Love The Animals House of the Rising Sun and the Nashville teens Tobacco Road in July of 1969 Nancy Mickey Mo Billy strange and her regular session musicians assembled at United recorders to cut four songs including the highway song are you growing tired of my love zodiac blues and colors are changing Mickey wasn't completely satisfied with the results and asked Nancy if she would travel to London to finish the songs Nancy was no stranger to British Studios she recorded her third album Nancy in London at Pi Studios 1966 and recorded the James Bond theme You Only Live Twice with John Barry in 1967 when she arrived back in London in October of 1969 Mickey in his flamboyant style was waiting to pick her up from the airport on a motorcycle with Mickey and his element the recordings began to take their final form he brought the Magnificent British bass play Herby flowers in to lay down his unmistakable funky groove on the highway song which greatly elevated the track Herby played bass on David Bowie's space odity single that was recorded about 4 months before the highway song in addition to the instrumental embellishments the spontaneous and wild producer ran out into the street to grab random people to contribute vocals to the song his instincts paid off and the highway song made it to number 21 on the UK charts Nancy performed the track beautifully on The Andy Williams Show and remains one of her all-time favorite singles that she ever recorded the song was written by Kenny Young songwriter who is most well known for co-writing The Drifter 1964 hit Under the Boardwalk Nancy also recorded Kenny young song colors are changing with Mickey the bside of the highway song is are you growing tired of my love the track opens with a huge howlan drum fill recorded at the LA session that could only be performed on his custom monster drum [Music] set the song has a lovely arrangement with brass and concert Bells providing catchy hooks the song was written by Anthony King who composed songs for the status quo Herman's Hermits and many other British groups even though Nancy had a hit single with the highway song she didn't have label support RI records never even released the single in America the other two songs that Nancy recorded with Mickey at the inspired 1969 sessions weren't released at the time zodiac blues and colors are changing were locked in the vaults unheard for years ny's complete Mickey Mo sessions from 1969 are finally being released in their entirety for the first time ever on the 2024 reissue of Nancy and London as the bonus tracks Nancy and London 69 the reissue of Nancy London is out on light the attic records in September of 2024 and it's part of the Nancy Sinatra archival series kissine were en so the colors are changing all of the time a [Music]