Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American countr… Read Full Bio ↴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 and 1970s. 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".
Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma on July 9, 1929. The son of an oil worker father, Hazlewood spent most of his youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. His paternal grandmother was Native American. He 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.
Hazlewood was initially known as a producer and songwriter, for artists including Duane Eddy, Dean Martin, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Following discharge from the military in 1953, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix. During that time, he was already writing songs and formed his own record label, Viv. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1956. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy, producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records. "Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in the US and in the UK; Eddy would eventually have another 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn", "Boss Guitar", "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Shazam!" and "(Dance With The) Guitar Man".
Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first recorded with Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966. His collaboration with Nancy Sinatra began when Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help boost his daughter's career. When recording These Boots are Made for Walkin', Hazlewood is said to have made this suggestion to Nancy, "You can’t sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for the truckers". She later described him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".
Hazlewood also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is "Some Velvet Morning", a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. He performed that song along with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. Early in 1967, Lee also produced the number 1 hit song for Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid". The pair became the only father-daughter duo to top the Hot 100 with what DJs dubbed 'the incest song' because it performed as if sung by two lovers. The record earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the U.S. Jimmy Bowen was listed as co-producer on that record but wasn't there at the time. Hazlewood just gave him credit as per a previous agreement with Jimmy.
Hazlewood also wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents", the theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the same title. Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote "Houston", a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin. He also produced several singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, including her country hit, "Girl of the Month Club," while Deana was still a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind," all recorded during the 1960s. Hazlewood also wrote "This Town", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record label, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Though it did not receive much attention 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. Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the band to join The Byrds, contributing several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The contract Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great deal of trouble for himself and The Byrds, and in the court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of the Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release. As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was a performer and not a businessman, and his lack of business acumen figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise.
In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and Director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as an album. During ten years in Sweden he made records and films with Axelman. According to a retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was motivated by his "tax problems", concern that his son might be drafted for the Vietnam war and the fact that his record label "LHI was dying anyway", so Sweden looked like the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment about the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA and here was a brand new world where he had a built-in fanclub ... He really needed a new start".
Lee was semi-retired from the music business from the late 1970s and all through the 1980s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such as Rowland S. Howard, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, The Ukiah Drag, Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Thin White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf and Slowdive.
In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day"). He said that he loved producing and writing albums.
In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released 'STRUNG OUT ON SOMETHING NEW: THE REPRISE RECORDINGS', a set of his work at Reprise from 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD collection, totaling 55 tracks, covers three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzche and Dino, Desi & Billy.
Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.
Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma on July 9, 1929. The son of an oil worker father, Hazlewood spent most of his youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. His paternal grandmother was Native American. He 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.
Hazlewood was initially known as a producer and songwriter, for artists including Duane Eddy, Dean Martin, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Following discharge from the military in 1953, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix. During that time, he was already writing songs and formed his own record label, Viv. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1956. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy, producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records. "Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in the US and in the UK; Eddy would eventually have another 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn", "Boss Guitar", "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Shazam!" and "(Dance With The) Guitar Man".
Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first recorded with Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966. His collaboration with Nancy Sinatra began when Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help boost his daughter's career. When recording These Boots are Made for Walkin', Hazlewood is said to have made this suggestion to Nancy, "You can’t sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for the truckers". She later described him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".
Hazlewood also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is "Some Velvet Morning", a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. He performed that song along with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. Early in 1967, Lee also produced the number 1 hit song for Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid". The pair became the only father-daughter duo to top the Hot 100 with what DJs dubbed 'the incest song' because it performed as if sung by two lovers. The record earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the U.S. Jimmy Bowen was listed as co-producer on that record but wasn't there at the time. Hazlewood just gave him credit as per a previous agreement with Jimmy.
Hazlewood also wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents", the theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the same title. Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote "Houston", a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin. He also produced several singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, including her country hit, "Girl of the Month Club," while Deana was still a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind," all recorded during the 1960s. Hazlewood also wrote "This Town", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record label, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Though it did not receive much attention 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. Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the band to join The Byrds, contributing several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The contract Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great deal of trouble for himself and The Byrds, and in the court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of the Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release. As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was a performer and not a businessman, and his lack of business acumen figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise.
In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and Director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as an album. During ten years in Sweden he made records and films with Axelman. According to a retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was motivated by his "tax problems", concern that his son might be drafted for the Vietnam war and the fact that his record label "LHI was dying anyway", so Sweden looked like the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment about the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA and here was a brand new world where he had a built-in fanclub ... He really needed a new start".
Lee was semi-retired from the music business from the late 1970s and all through the 1980s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such as Rowland S. Howard, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, The Ukiah Drag, Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Thin White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf and Slowdive.
In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day"). He said that he loved producing and writing albums.
In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released 'STRUNG OUT ON SOMETHING NEW: THE REPRISE RECORDINGS', a set of his work at Reprise from 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD collection, totaling 55 tracks, covers three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzche and Dino, Desi & Billy.
Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.
Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
Jose
Lee Hazlewood Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Jose' by these artists:
3 Feet Short Human obsession with possessions, wont help us out any, …
8ruki Damn Blasé, cook that shit up J'sais marquer des points mai…
Anis Fini les pauses spliff Rua Da Silva Les dominas au café…
Aventura Las maletas en la puerta josé ya se va marchar A…
Aventura/Miri Ben-Ari Something special?K.O.B Las maletas en la puerta, Jose ya s…
B.I.S Holà Señorita Me llamo (Yovng-b) Holà Señorita Me llamo (Yov…
Caetano Veloso Estou no fundo do poço Meu grito Lixa o céu seco O tempo…
El Kinto Con los zapatos nuevos salió José Lo vi con un recuerdo…
Inezita Barroso Pareceu uma mulher Perguntando por José Fez-se um silêncio g…
Jéssica Ellen E agora, José? A festa acabou A luz apagou O povo sumiu A no…
Jose Um dia eu parei na estrada para olhar No céu Senti o…
Kiddo Toto Prendo yerba buena porque quiero ser mortal Prendo yerba bue…
Kimi - K Perdoname no quiero bailar Esque soy antisocial Mejor me qui…
Las Pastillas Del Abuelo A veces el futuro es malo, aveces bueno Y vos seras…
Leopard Tuesday You still feel the same way as when she used…
Miri Ben-Ari Something special? K.O.B. Las maletas en la puerta, Jose ya…
Nicotine HOLD MY HAND SIT NIXT TO ME LOOK INTO MY EYES I…
O.N.T.J. Su nombre es José Fernando Su día se basa en estar…
Padre Fábio Eu tão simples, tão pequeno Um carpinteiro e nada mais Mas m…
Perez Prado and his Orchestra Francis Bay and his Orchestra Do you know the way to San Jose I've been away…
Rita Lee Olha o que foi meu bom José Se apaixonar pela donzela Entre…
Sambô José, acho que essa mulher que rebola Te olha de uma…
Stealers Wheel Time to turn the hay, listen, my José Pick up your…
Voz De Mando Me dicen pinero De la vieja historia Y vengo desde…
Zack Hurts Yeah yeah yeah Yo pass me another bottle Uh check it go Yeah…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Lee Hazlewood:
A Real Live Fool Everybody stand in line it ain't gonna cost you a…
a taste of you There's pictures in my mind I've never seen before There's e…
After Six Hey there Mr Bartender now have a little pitty on…
Anthem I never had a job on Wall Street. Never was a…
Baghdad Knights A soldier was sent made to go and he went to…
Boots You keep saying you got something for me Something you call…
Child Friday's child, hard luck is her brother Friday's child, her…
Cold Hard Times In the waking hours of some not too distant morning You…
Come on Home to Me A bird can fly on just one wing But then why…
Dark End of the Street At the dark end of the street That's where we always…
Dark in My Heart Woke up Sunday morning and I thought that I could…
Did You Ever Did you ever? Not so much, that you can know this Could…
Dolly and Hawkeye She'll be thirty two in July And she's only known one…
Don Hear that whistle, it's ten o'clock. Don't let go, Don't let…
Easy And Me We rode on trains with hunger and pain but we…
First Street Blues Don Lowance, the man who plays guitar with me, and…
Five More Miles To Folsom Five more miles to Folsom This train can't move too slow Nin…
For a Day Like Today There's a dream I've been saving for a day like…
For One Moment The hurt I hurt is nothing like the hurts I've…
Forget Marie Standing on the corner with a raggedi-old suitcase by my…
Four Kinds of Lonely Johnny Blakely robbed the bank way down in El Paso He…
Fred Freud Hello young fella my name is Fred Freud I hear you…
friday Friday's child, hard luck is her brother Friday's child, her…
Greenwich Village folksong salesman I met him in a Greenwich village coffee nook He was…
Guitar Man See the candle light burning In a cabin not so far From…
Heaven is My Woman's Love Heaven is my woman's love Gently rising with the sun She g…
Hey Cowboy Hey cowboy, where did you get the clothes you wear Hey…
Houston Well it's lonesome in this big town everybody puts me…
Hutchinson Jail Cold, cold, cold, cold, it's cold in the Hutchinson Jail …
I I am a part of every road you walk down And…
I Am You Are I am the sea, you are the wind that comes…
i might break even My old barn's about to cave in It'll fall right on…
I Move Around I've seen the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay I've seen…
I Want You I am the sea, you are the wind that comes…
I'm Glad I Never... In the beginning there was nothing But it was kind of…
If it There were times when being together was fun And there were…
If it's Monday Morning There were times when being together was fun And there were…
In Our Time People used to bill and coo But that don't make it…
Jackson We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper…
Kari Oh Kari I'm coming home Oh Kari I'm coming home Gatorade a…
Lady bird I've been where the eagle flies Rode his wings 'cross autumn…
Leather and Lace Leather and lace hangin' in place and the fire was…
Long Black Train Back when I was ten Jim was my best friend We'd…
Long Haired Country Boy People say I'm no good And crazy as a loon 'Cause I…
Look At That Woman Look at that woman standin' there look at that woman…
Luxury Liner Luxury liner forty tons of steel if I don't…
Me and Charlie Me and Charlie shot a man this morning He was such…
Morning dew Walk me out in the morning dew my honey Walk me…
My Autumn Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye Give everyone a penny that…
My Autumn Done Come Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye Give everyone a penny that…
My Autumn's Done Come Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye Give everyone a penny that…
My Autumn´s Done Come Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye Give everyone a penny that…
My Baby Cried All Night Long My baby cried all night long my baby cried all…
No Regrets I know your leaving is to long overdue For far to…
No Train to Stockholm One night Johnny sang the truth to me On a northbound…
No Train To Stokholm One night Johnny sang the truth to me On a northbound…
Not The Lovin' Kind Tell you babe I'm not the lovin' kind So you better…
Nothing Male: I took the time to say nothing to her, she took…
Peculiar Guy One night in a card game I lucked at a…
Please Come To Boston Please come to Boston For the springtime I'm stayin' here …
Pray Them Bars Away Four years down and twenty one to blow Ten thousand more…
Rainbow woman I saw her reflection in the shadow of the sun Listening…
Rosacoke Street I'm down looking for upness The cold watching for heat The…
Run Boy Run You were born by a railroad track Never knew your ma…
Sacrifice She rolls like a river she bathes in the sand she's ice…
Sand Young woman share your fire with me My heart is cold,…
She Once she dressed in silks and lace, Owned a Rolls…
Since You're Gone I woke up this morning feelin' just as all my…
Six Feet of Chain He can love any woman he sees he can stay…
Some Velvet Morning Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight I'm gonna open u…
Son of a Gun It hurts to be told when you're not very old That…
Summer Wine Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My summ…
Summerwine Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My summ…
That Old Freight Train Woke up on Monday and I felt bad Woke up on…
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy…
The Fool Gather round me buddies Hold your glasses high And drink to …
The Girl On Death Row Her eyes were once so full of dreams. Her young heart…
The Girls in Paris Male: The girls in Paris are special and unique You see it…
The House Song This house goes on sale ev'ry Wednesday morning And taken o…
The Night Before I wake up Sunday morning With my mind all in a…
The Nights Her skin was the color Of the mountains' first winter snow …
The Old Man & His Guitar See the candle light burning In a cabin not so far From…
The Railroad Working on the railroad all day long Working on the railroad…
Them Girls Them girls call me such and such Them girls with society's…
These Boots Are Made For Walkin You keep saying you got something for me Something you call…
This Town This town is a lonely town Not the only town like-a…
Trouble Is a Lonesome Town Trouble's little and it's lonesome. You won't find it on…
Ugly Brown Nobody loves me in this town this town this town Nobody…
Vem Kan Segla Vem ken siyla forutan vind? **who can sail without the wind…
Victims of the Night Hmm, the searching fingers of the dawn Are slowly creeping …
Wasn't It You It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
We All Make the Flowers Grow Cowards and heroes Listen my friends If you have money Or…
What's More I Don't Need Her She knew I'd take her side In everything she did Even if…
When A Fool Loves A Fool I know you'll hurt me and it's such a crying…
White People Thing If you got a place where the grass is green and…
Your Sweet Love Stranger's arms reach out to me cause they know I'm…
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Neilos Hodges
This really is pure gold. Lee hazlewood was such an amazingly original artist. Its a shame that not so many people remember him and his music.
Mike Goodman
Lee Hazlewood, what a different kind of soul; I knew him and saw him come from nothing to having more than you would think you could make from writing one HIT
song. He went from not much to having it all WELL, for about 15 years or less but always was to me a great guy but he had problems like we all do but Lee lived his
life larger than it was. He ended up writing many hits but they couldn't save him from himself in the end
Thomas Warming
You sound like you knew him well. Did you work for him? In any case, he was awesome!
Granny Tenderstone
so good to see so much of Hazelwood's work on YT !! brilliant man, a musical treasure.
Jose Acta
Outstanding!! - José
Maj-Brith H
He is one of the best (was) storytellers!
JB Miranda
lee Hazlewood.jose.maravilhosa canção.
Lew Brown
I,ve listened to jose a zillion times , never tire of it.
Brandon Marlo
God bless you, Jose
KSAMF
Althought I don't like bullfights I love this music