Sugar Town is great (Lee track). Sweet Georgia Brown & Coastin' are good as well. A few other tracks are solid, but the liberal use of brass can get to be a bit much. For some foolish reason two of the best cuts are found as bonus tracks on a CD reissue. Love Eyes ( a Lee track), and a duet with Frank (something stupid).
Despite the low scores I went into this with very high expectations. This is the Nancy album that really struck me as something interesting but I decided to listen to her first two albums before this one today.
This album started off on a weak note compared to her other albums I have heard, it doesn't pick up as much and it doesn't have that super interesting sound to it. I was expecting a bit of a big change on this album but it doesn't do much moving around or changing so it does kind of ... read more
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a singer less charismatic than Nancy Sinatra. She tries to have this sexy crooning persona but she absolutely falls flat on here face. On top of having zero vocal charisma, she can’t even sing, like in the song “Something Stupid (featuring Frank Sinatra)” her sole job on the verses is to sing a one note melody, and yet still she sings flat. NEPOTISM.
Bonus songs:
1. Love Eyes / 54
2. Somethin' Stupid (with Frank Sinatra) ... read more
| 1 | Sweet Georgia Brown 3:57 | |
| 2 | Vagabond Shoes 2:00 | |
| 3 | Oh! You Beautiful Doll 2:49 | |
| 4 | Hard Hearted Hannah 3:30 | |
| 5 | All By Myself 3:00 | |
| 6 | Coastin' 2:40 | |
| 7 | Mama Goes Where Papa Goes 2:30 | |
| 8 | Let's Do It 3:34 | |
| 9 | What'll I Do 2:54 | |
| 10 | Limehouse Blues 2:58 | |
| 11 | Sugar Town 2:20 | |
| 12 | Button Up Your Overcoat 2:20 | |
| 13 | My Buddy 2:58 |