Word: hazlewood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fling at college, she was strictly Carol Coed. Over the next five years, she cut 15 forgettable singles in a sweet-little-girl voice. Then, in late 1965, shortly after her four-year marriage to Singer Tommy Sands ended in divorce, she turned her career over to Songwriter Lee Hazlewood. He lectured her in the classic show-biz manner: "You're not a sweet young thing. You're not the virgin next door. You've been married and divorced. You're a grown woman. I know there's garbage in there somewhere...
Becoming Herself. By "garbage," Hazlewood meant pain, heartbreak, worldliness. He carted it out of her, distilled it into a recording of his mildly rocking These Boots Are Made for Walking, which Nancy sang with all the cynical bite she could muster. Boots sold nearly 4,000,000 copies, and Nancy, outfitting herself with 250 pairs of boots, went stomping around the world on a promotional junket...