Chanteur Country US né Barton Lee Hazlewood, le 9 juillet 1929 à Mannford (Oklahoma). Il a notamment écrit pour Nancy Sinatra (These Boots Are Made For Walking ou Summer Wine qu'il interprète en duo avec elle, repris en France par Gilles Marchal et Martine Habib), découvert le guitariste Duane Eddy et a apporté son aide pour le lancement de la carrière de Phil Spector … Lee est décédé le 4 août 2007 à Las Vegas (Nevada).

Country and pop iconoclast Lee Hazlewood has been one of the music world's most irascible geniuses during a long, fruitful career. An Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugee who grew up to become a dedicated Europhile; a production heavyweight who authored success stories for Duane Eddy and Nancy Sinatra but also a recording eccentric who refused to acknowledge mainstream tastes; a songwriter capable of crippling fatalism ("My Autumn's Done Come") and playful country corn ("Dolly Parton's Guitar"), and songs that use elements of both ("Dark in My Heart"); it's all part of the highly contradictory legend of Hazlewood.
Hazlewood was born Barton Lee Hazlewood in 1929 in Mannford, OK. (A 1968 recording even took his birthplace as its title.) His father, an oil man, moved the family around continually during the 1930s and '40s while looking for work — with stops in Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana — before landing on the Gulf Coast in Port Neches, TX. Hazlewood enrolled at Southern Methodist planning to study medicine but was conscripted soon after; he married his high-school sweetheart, Naomi Shackleford, then spent several years overseas, spinning records in Japan for Armed Services Radio but also on active duty in Korea.
Returning from the war, the Hazlewoods moved to California and then Coolidge, AZ, where Lee used a short stint in broadcasting school to land a job with a local radio station. His playlists eventually gravitated toward rock & roll, and following a move to Phoenix several years later, he began producing tracks for his own label, Viv, in 1955. One year later, he wrote a song called "The Fool" and hired local country singer Sanford Clark to record it. Hazlewood's innovative recording techniques — heavily echoed, in similar fashion to Sam Phillips' work at Sun — turned the single into an unlikely Midwestern regional favorite and a national hit after it was reissued by Dot. It eventually peaked inside the Top Ten. Clark failed to repeat its success, however, and a Dot production deal for Hazlewood also fizzled, even after he moved back to California. He then hooked up with entrepreneur Lester Sill, who had previously been partners with Leiber & Stoller and was still managing the Coasters. Hazlewood cut some tracks back in Phoenix, including a few bizarre guitar-effects records by local sensation Duane Eddy. Eddy, an unlikely signee to Jamie Records (co-owned by Dick Clark), hit the big time with "Rebel Rouser" and went on to notch 15 singles in the Top 40. (Hazlewood's influence extended to an associate of Sill's named Phil Spector: Spector visited the studio in Phoenix to study Hazlewood's taping techniques, and his first productions appeared on the Trey label owned by Hazlewood and Sill.)
With success came a series of complications, however, beginning with Eddy's decision to produce himself, after an argument concerning royalties. Then, Sill began focusing his patronage on Spector in the wake of his increasing production acumen during the early '60s. While the duo formed their own Philles label, Hazlewood was having little success with his productions, which included another brief stint with Eddy, longtime friend Al Casey (who a moderate hit with "Surfin' Hootenanny"), and his own folk-pop group, the Shacklefords.
In 1963, Hazlewood booked some time at Western Studios (site of a few Brian Wilson/Beach Boys classics) and recorded the tracks for his first solo LP, Trouble Is a Lonesome Town. A concept record centered on the eccentric residents of a small Western burg, it introduced Hazlewood's distinctive performing talents. A keen observer of human behavior with a talent for storytelling, he dryly told despairing tales of hard-bitten small-town characters and prefaced each song with a few knowing words about its subject. It wasn't a formula for pop success, but Mercury A&R man Jack Tracy believed in the record and released it with little interference.
After a year-long break from recording of any kind, he returned to the studio in 1965, when asked by Jimmy Bowen from Reprise to produce Dino, Desi & Billy — a trio of Hollywood teens with royal blood (the first two were the sons of Dean Martin and Desi Arnaz, respectively). Hazlewood recorded a pair of Top 40 hits, "I'm a Fool" and "Our Time's Coming," and one of his compositions, "Houston," was recorded for a hit by Martin himself. Reprise showed their gratitude by allowing him to record his second LP, The N.S.V.I.P.'s ("The Not-So-Very-Important People"), during 1965. Also, Hazlewood was duly apportioned the career of Nancy Sinatra, another blue-blooded child who had been at Reprise for four years without earning a hit. By the end of 1965, she reached the pop charts with "So Long Babe." One year later, Sinatra became an international superstar thanks to the cultural milestone "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." Hazlewood's other production chart-topper was "Somethin' Stupid," featuring a duo with Nancy and father Frank.
After another record for Reprise (Friday's Child), his publisher found him a contract with MGM, and he released two LPs in two years: 1966's The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood and 1967's Lee Hazlewood-ism: Its Cause and Cure. (A planned third record, 1968's Something Special, wasn't actually heard until decades later.) These two comprised the best work of his (solo) career, a collection of desert-dry ballads of the dust boasting a healthy dose of Western fatalism and wanderlust and given impeccable productions that ranged from cowboy minimalism to overblown brassy pop. They were also a place to flesh out material he would later produce for Sinatra, like "Sand" and "Summer Wine." When the latter, a Nancy & Lee duo tacked onto the B-side of a 1966 Sinatra single, became a hit one year later, it sparked a full-fledged duo album. Nancy & Lee sold a million copies during 1968 and earned its place as one of the most influential records associated with either Sinatra or Hazlewood; "Some Velvet Morning," a haunting hymn to the twilight, became an alternative classic thanks to airings, not as much by contemporaries (Vanilla Fudge, Gabor Szabo) as by second- and third-generation inheritors (Lydia Lunch, Thin White Rope, Slowdive, Primal Scream).
Also in 1968, Hazlewood the solo artist returned (briefly) to Reprise to issue Love and Other Crimes, another vaguely conceptual record featuring some solid material (though little to compare to his MGM work). He also formed his own imprint, LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries), which most famously signed the International Submarine Band featuring Gram Parsons but later refused to release Parsons' contract so his work with the Byrds could appear on the country-rock classic Sweetheart of the Rodeo. His own LHI debut was 1969's The Cowboy & the Lady, recorded with another female foil, Ann-Margret. Increasingly, though, Hazlewood appeared restless in Southern California, recording a few sessions for country stars (including Eddy Arnold and Waylon Jennings) but gradually spending more time in Europe — especially Sweden. During 1970, he recorded Cowboy in Sweden, the first of several collaborations with Swedish director Torbjörn Axelman. (Hazlewood even earned a Golden Rose at the Montreux Festival in 1973.) The same year, Requiem for an Almost Lady etched onto wax his breakup with Suzi Jane Hokom, who had duoed on several of his MGM singles. More and more, his records weren't even being released in America, though he continued to do solid work — 1973's Poet, Fool or Bum was one of the best of his career.
After his recording career began drifting during the late '70s, Hazlewood retired briefly but resurfaced in 1995, touring America with Sinatra after her comeback album, One More Time. He also contributed two vocal tracks to the Casey album Sidewinder, recorded in Phoenix and released in 1995 by the German label Bear Family. Since his peak in the late '60s, however, Hazlewood had been revered by figures in the alternative scene ranging from Nick Cave to Tindersticks to Lambchop. In 1999, Smells Like Records (founded by Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth) began reissuing several of Hazlewood's classic LPs and also released his first new album in 20 years, Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and Me... In the mid-2000s, he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer; nevertheless, he released a new record, Cake or Death, in late 2006. The end finally came on August 4, 2007.

Talents : Singer, Songwriter, Producer

Style musical : Country Rock, Country-Pop, Pop, Contemporary Country

ANTHEM BOOTS (original melody) THE FIRST SONG OF THE DAY WHITE PEOPLE THING

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DISCOGRAPHY

Singles

Albums

1963	LP 12" MERCURY SR-60860 (US)		TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN - Long Black Train / Look At That Woman / Son Of A Gun / We All Make The Flowers Grow / Run Boy Run / Six Feet Of Chain / Railroad / Ugly Brown / Peculiar Guy / Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
1964	LP 12" REPRISE R-6133 (mono) / RS-6133 (stéréo) (US)		THE N.S.V.I.P. (NOT SO VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS) - First Street Blues / I Had A Friend / I'm Gonna Fly / Go Die Big City / I Ain't Gonna Be / Have You Made Any New Bombs Today / Everybody Calls Me Something / Save Your Vote For Clarence Mudd / I Might Break Even / Just Bluesin'
1965	LP 12" REPRISE 6163 (mono) / RS-6163 (stéréo) (US)		FRIDAY'S CHILD - Friday's Child, Hutchinson Jail / By The Way (I Still Love You) / Four Kinds Of Lonely / Houston / Sally Was A Good Ole Girl / Since You're Gone / Real Live Fool / I'm Blue / Fool / That Old Freight Train / Me And Charlie
1966	LP 12" MGM E-4362 (mono) / SE-4362 (stéréo) (US)		THE VERY SPECIAL WORLD OF LEE HAZLEWOOD - For One Moment / When A Fool Loves A Fool / Not The Lovin' Kind / Your Sweet Love / Sand / My Autumn's Done Come / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / I Move Around / So Long Babe / Bugles In The Afternoon / My Baby Cried All Night Long
1966	LP 12" MGM SE-4403 (US)		HAZLEWOODISM ITS CAUSE AND CURE - Girls In Paris / Jose / Old Man And His Guitar / Nights / I Am A Part / Home (I'm Home) / After Six / Suzi Jane Is Back In Town / In Our Time / Dark In My Heart
1967	LP 12" MGM 66587 (D)		THIS IS LEE HAZLEWOOD - Girls In Paris / Jose / Suzi Jane Is Back In Town / After Six / Dark In My Heart / Nights / Home (I'm Home) / For One Moment / Sand / I Move Around / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / So Long Babe / Bugles In The Afternoon / My Baby Cried Allnight Long
08/1967	LP 12" LHI E-12001 (mono) / ES7-12001 (stereo) (US)		98 PERCENT AMERICAN MOM AND APPLE PIE - 1929 CRASH BAND - Summerwine / These Boots Are Made For Walking / Friday's Child / Sugartown / Shades / So Long Babe / How Does That Grab You Darlin' / In Our Time / Not The Lovin' Kind / Leave My Dog Alone / Houston
1968	LP 12" MGM SE-4486 (US)		SOMETHING SPECIAL - Shades / This Town / Child / Stone Cold Blues / Little War / Them Girls / Fort Worth / Hands / Mannford Oklahoma / Summer Night
1968	LP 12" REPRISE RS-6273 (US)		NANCY AND LEE - (Lee HAZLEWOOD & Nancy SINATRA) - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' / My Elusive Dreams / Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman / Summer Wine / Storybook Children / Sundown Sundown / Jackson / Some Velvet Morning / Sand / Lady Bird / I've Been Down So Long (It Looks Like Up To Me) / Did You Ever
1968	LP 12" MGM 235403 (UK)		THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' - Shades / This Town / Stone Cold Blues / Fort Worth / Them Girls / Hands / Summer Nights / For One Moment / When A Fool Loves A Fool / Not The Lovin' Kind / Sand / So Long Babe / My Baby Cried All Night Long / These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
1968	LP 12" REPRISE RS-6297 (US)		LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES - Love And Other Crimes / Morning Dew / She Comes Running / Rosacoke Street / She's Funny That Way / House Song / Wait And See / Forget Marie / Pour Man / Love And Other Crimes
04/1969	LP 12" LHI S-12006 (US)		TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN - Long Black Train / Ugly Brown / Son Of A Gun / We All Make The Flowers Grow / Run Boy Run / Six Feet Of Chain / The Railroad / Look At That Woman / Peculiar Guy / Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
1969	LP 12" LHI S-12007 (US)		THE COWBOY AND THE LADY - (Lee HAZLEWOOD & Ann MARGRET) - Am I That Easy To Forget / Only Mama That'll Walk The Line / Greyhound Bus Depot / Walk On Out Of My Mind / Hangin' On / Victims Of The Night / Break My Mind / You Can't Imagine / Sweet Thang / No Regrets / Dark End Of The Street
1970	LP 12" LHI S-12009 (US)		FORTY - It Was A Very Good Year / What's More I Don't Need Her / Night Before / Bed / Paris Bells / Wait Till Next Year / September Song / Let's Burn Down The Cornfield / Bye Babe / Mary
1971	LP 12" LHI S-3101 (US)		COWBOY IN SWEDEN - Pray Them Bars Away / Leather And Lace / Forget Marie / Cold Hard Times / Night Before / Hey Cowboy / No Train To Stockholm / For A Day Like Today / Easy And Me / What's More I Don't Need Her / Vem Kan Segla
1971	LP 12" VIKING VIF-5000 (US)		REQUIEM FOR AN ALMOST LADY - I'm Glad I Never / If It's Monday Morning / LA Lady / Won't You Tell Your Dreams / I'll Live Yesterdays / Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain) / Stone Lost Childs / Come On Home To Me / Must Have Been Something I Loved / I'd Rather Be Your Enemy
1972	LP 12" VIKING VIF-5003 (US)		13 - You Look Like A Lady / Tulsa Sunday / Ten Or Eleven Towns Ago / Toocie And The River / She Comes Running / Rosacoke Street / I Move Around / And I Loved You Then / Hey Me I'm Writing
1972	LP 12" RCA VICTOR LSP-4645 (US)		DID YOU EVER - (Nancy Sinatra & Lee HAZLEWOOD) - Did You Ever / Tippy Toes / Back On The Road / Arkansas Coal (suite) / Congratulation / Down From Dover / Friendship Train / Paris Summer / Big Red Balloon / Got It Together
1973	LP 12" VIKING VIF-5004 (US)		I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT - Lone Ranger Ain't My Friend Anymore / She Comes Running / Stone Lost Child / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / Urge For Going / Taxi / Paris Song / Better Place To Be
1973	LP 12" CAPITOL ST-11171 (US)		POET FOOL OR BUM - Poet Fool Or Bum / Heaven Is My Woman's Love / Kari / Feathers / Nancy And Me / Performer / Come Spend The Morning / Wind Sky Sea And Sand / Think I'm Coming Down / Those Were The Days (Martha)
1974	LP 12" CBS 80534 (SW)		THE STOCKHOLM KID LIVE - Performer / You Look Like A Lady / It Was A Very Good Year / Hello In There / Jackson / Summer Wine / Sugar Town / Some Velvet Morning / Houston / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / Fire And Rain / Come Spend The Morning / She Comes Running / Better Place To Be
1975	LP 12" CBS 80383 (SW)		A HOUSE SAFE FOR TIGERS - Soul's Island / House Safe For Tigers / Our Little Boy Blue / Absent Friends / Sand Hill Anna And Russian Mouse / Lars Gunnar And Me / Soul's Island (Las Vegas) / Nights / House Safe For Tigers
1976	LP 12" RCA YSPL-575 (D)		20TH CENTURY LEE - Long Haired Country Boy / That's How I Got To Memphis / In A Young Girl's Mind / Ballad Of Lucy Jordon / Old Lullaby / Fool / Indian Summer / My Girl Bill / Crazy Mama / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / To Ramona / Brevet Fran Lillan
1977	LP 12" ELECTROLA 32553 (US)		BACK ON THE STREET AGAIN - Back On The Street Again / Save A Place For Me / Your Thunder And Your Lightning / Suddenly Tennessee / You Make It Look So Easy / I'm Like The Rider On A White Horse / Smokey Put The Sweat On Me / Dolly And Hawkeye / Beginning To Feel Like Home / New Box Of People / Dolly Parton's Guitar
1977	LP 12" POLYDOR 2379147 (US)		MOVIN' ON - Mother Country Music / I've Got To Be Movin' / Rising Star / Come On Home To Me / It's For My Dad / Let's Burn Down The Cornfield / Hello Saturday Morning / Wait Till Next Year / LA Lady / Paris Bells / Kung Fu You / It Was A Very Good Year
1987	CD REPERTOIRE RR-4008 (US)		SON OF A GUN - Son Of A Gun / Run Boy Run / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / Ballad Of Lucy Jordon / Fool / Back On The Street Again / Save A Place For Me / Your Thunder And Your Lightning / Suddenly Tennessee / You Make It Look So Easy / I'm Like The Rider On A White Horse
1989	CD RHINO R2-70166 (US)		FAIRY TALES AND FANTASIES - (Lee HAZLEWOOD & Nancy SINATRA) - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' / Elusive Dreams / Greenwich Village / Folk Song Salesman / Summer Wine / Storybook Children / Did You Ever / Sundown Sundown / Jackson / Some Velvet Morning / Sand / Lady Bird / I've Been Down So Long / Down From Dover / Paris Summer / Arkansas Coal
1992	CD REQUEST CD-13505 (US)		THE MANY SIDES OF LEE - Son Of A Gun / Run Boy Run / Long Black Train / Railroad / Six Feet Of Chain / Jose / Dark In My Heart / So Long Babe / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / I Move Around / Home (I'm Home) / Girls In Paris / Sand / Suzi Jane Is Back In Town / My Baby Cried All Night Long / Shades / When A Fool Loves A Fool / Muddy Muddy River / Mansion Of Tears / City Never Sleeps / Five Feet High And Risin' / Words Mean Nothing / Della / Want Me / Pretty Jane
1993	CD SELECTA SELP 070 (FIN)		GYPSIES AND INDIANS - (Lee HAZLEWOOD & Anna HANSKI) - Gypsies And Indians / My Finland / Summer Wine / Some Velvet Morning / Please Come To Boston / Is Making A Little Love Out Of The Question / Sand / Lady Bird / Tracy's Song (Find A Place) / Guess I've Been Holding On Too Long / That's Been Done Before
1994	CD BELLAPHON 288-07255 (D)		LEE HAZLEWOOD AND FRIENDS - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / Girls In Paris / Lady Bird / Muddy Muddy River / I Move Around / Jackson / City Never Sleeps / Sand / So Long Babe / Summer Wine / Five Feet High And Risin' / Suzi Jane Is Back In Town / Home (I'm Home) / Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman / Mansion Of Tears / When A Fool Loves A Fool / Some Velvet Morning / Jose
05/1997	CD LHI 97100 (US)		POET, FOOL OR BUM - Poet / Kari / Feathers / Performer / Come Spend The Morning / Wind Sky Sea And Sand / Think I'm Coming Down / Pray Them Bars Away / Cold Hard Times / Night Before / No Train To Stockholm / Easy And Me / Long Haired Country Boy / Ballad Of Lucy Jordan / To Ramona / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On / Back On The Street Again / Your Thunder And Your Lightning / Suddenly Tennessee / Rider On A White Horse / Dolly Parton's Guitar / Mother Country Music / It's For My Dad / Hello Saturday Morning / LA Lady
05/1997	CD LHI 97200 (US)		LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES - For One Moment / Bugles In The Afternoon / After Six / Nights / Your Sweet Love / We All Make The Flowers Grow / Look At That Woman / She Comes Running / Forget Marie / Pour Man / Love And Other Crimes / Them Girls / Friday's Child / Hutchinson Jail / By The Way (I Still Love You) / Four Kinds Of Lonely / Houston / Since You're Gone / Real Live Fool / I'm Blue / Fool / That Old Freight Train / Me And Charlie / I'm Gonna Fly / Bed / Bye Baby / No Regrets
1997	CD LHI 97300 (US)		THE COWBOY AND THE LADIES - Greenwich Village Folksong Salesman / My Elusive Dreams / Summer Wine / Sundown Sundown / Jackson / Some Velvet Morning / Lady Bird / Oh Lonesome Me / Girl In Paris / Sand / I'll Never Fall In Love Again / Alone / Califia (Stone Rider) / Old Milwaukee / Leather And Lace / Hey Cowboy / Chico / Am I That Easy To Forget / Walk On Out Of My Mind / Victims Of The Night / Break My Mind / Sweet Thang / Dark End Of The Street / Friendship Train / Paris Summer / Down From Dover
1998	CD SMELLS LIKE ROSE SLR-030 (US)		TIMES - Times / Night Before / Hey Like Cowboy / No Train To Stockholm / For A Day Like Today / Easy And Me / What's More I Don't Need Her / Vem Kan Segla
04/1999	CD SMELLS LIKE ROSE SLR-031 (US)		FARMISHT, FLATULENCE, ORIGAMI, ARF AND ME - Honeysuckle Rose / Ain't Misbehavin' / Ot Had To Be You / Don't Get Around Much Anymore / Makin' Whopee / Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You / I Can't Get Started / She's Funny That Way / Try A Little Tenderness / Very Thought Of You / Am I Blue
1999	CD SMELLS LIKE ROSE SLR-038 (US)		TELL YOUR DREAMS - Tell Your Dreams / I'll Live Like Yesterdays / Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain) / Stone Lost Child / Come On Home To Me / Must Have Been Something I Loved / I'd Rather Be Your Enemy
2000	CD SMELLS LIKE ROSE SLR-040 (US)		DAY - Day / Ten Or Eleven Towns Ago / Toogie Like And The River / She Comes Running / Rosacoke Street / I Move Around / And I Loved You Then / Hej Me I'm Riding
2002	CD CITY SLANG ? (UK)		FOR EVERY SOLUTION THERE'S A PROBLEM - Dirtnap Stories / Your Thunder And Your Lightening / Taste Of You / Save A Place For Me / Dolly And Hawkeye / Buying Back / Suddenly Tennessee / Loving You Loving Me / Dolly Parton's Guitar / Strangers Lovers Friends / For My Birthday
11/2002	2 CD ACE 860 (UK)		THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' - THE COMPLETE MGM RECORDINGS : CD 1 : Girls In Paris / My Baby Cried All Night Long / My Autumn's Done Come / Summer Wine / I Move Around / Your Sweet Love / Sand / Dark In My Heart / After Six / I Am A Part / Bugles In The Afternoon / Not The Lovin' Kind / These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / José / Old Man And His Guitar / So Long, Babe / For One Moment / Home (I'm Home) / Nights / Suzi Jane Is Back In Town / In Our Time / When A Fool Loves A Fool CD 2 : Shades / This Town / Child / Stone Cold Blues / Little War / Them Girls / Fort Worth / Hands / Mannford, Oklahoma / Summer Nights / Muchacho [Instr.] / Batman [instr.] / Frenesi [instr.]
11/2006	CD BPX 1992 (US)		CAKE OR DEATH - Nothing (with Lula HAZLEWOOD) / Baghdad Knights / Please Come To Boston (with Ann-Kristin HEDMARK) / She's Gonna Break Some Heart Tonight (Tommy PARSONS) / Sacrifice / Fred Freud / The First Song Of The Day (Bela B., Lee HAZLEWOOD) / It's Nothing To Me / Anthem / White People Thing / Boots [original melody only edit] / Some Velvet Morning (PHAEDRA) / T.O.M. (The Old Man)
05/2012	CD LIGHT IN THE ATTIC LITA 084 (US)		THE LHI YEARS - SINGLES, NUDES AND BACKSIDES 1968-1971 - Califia (Stone Rider) / The Bed / Sleep In The Grass / Leather And Lace / If It's Monday Morning / The Night Before / Bye Babe / Victims Of The Night / Chico / Hey Cowboy / No Train To Stockholm / Won't You Tell Your Dreams / Nobody Like You / Trouble Maker / What's More I Don't Need Her / Come On Home To Me / I Just Learned To Run

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