Lee Hazlewood - Nancy Sinatra, Some Velvet Morning 

Remember this like yesterday . Just arrived in Vietnam , homesick , scared , a long year ahead of me . Lying in my cot that first night , raining , and alone with my thoughts . Another marine came in with a transistor radio and this started playing . We listened in silence and I had to hold back tears , lowest point in my life . But Thank God , I made it back , so many didn’t . Still , after all these years , this song is difficult for me to listen to . Semper Fi .

Lee Hazlewood's voice is so freakin' awesome!

When this song hit the late night AM waves you knew it was time to get spooky with Art Bell. Thanks to him I’m a big Hazlewood fan

I was named after this song. It's been a long strange trip explaining it over and over and over again.....

Obsessed with the beginning of this song. That key change is beyond gorgeous

Manages to be weird, unsettling, yet soothing all at the same time.

It's awesome how masterfully Lee Hazelwood controls the tempo of singing - pauses, emphasis, rhythm, controlling everything at will, and it turns out to be striking as hell.

This is a perfectly CRAFTED song. Lee was a disc jockey. The mechanics of this are amazing with the contrasts. Minor key for Lee. Dark, foreboding, rough country ballad in 4/4 time, vs. major key for Nancy, a lilting, well, flowery melody with high strings and synthesizers. A completely DIFFERENT key, but it is seamlessly, and artfully brought back to Lee's key. They each hold the last note long for the time signature change. Nancy sings it in 3/4 time, more lilting and melodic, same time as waltz music. It really is composed music, not just written music. Remains one of my favorite songs. Either you get it or you don't. Friends can't see what I see in it, they say they'd turn the station. Their loss. So many people recorded this including Vanilla Fudge, the psychedelic rock group. Listen to it, that is a fantastic rendition of this. It's not what you think when it starts.

These collaborations between Nancy and Lee are just magical.

The definition of eerie is not having heard this since you were five years old, and then hearing it. Like, wait, wasn't this a dream I had?

What a song! It sounds like it's ageless, almost biblical. Awesome.

There is so much mystery, sadness, romance, tenderness in this song... when I listen to this masterpiece, I fall into a kind of trance. I remember the day I heard it for the first time. My father loved to turn it on. He is no longer there, but the memories and feelings remain

*Psychedelic cowboy lounge music!* Loved this for years!!!! Everything Lee writes sounds like an epic movie theme....

Nancy's great, but Lee Hazlewood never got enough credit. I hope people check out more of his stuff.

God has gifted Lee with a sweet and unique voice, but called him back too soon😢😢

Love Lee's distinctive baritone voice against the sweet voice of Nancy in this one. Such a wonderful song and musical partnership between these two often described as "cowboy psychedelia."

"Some velvet morning when when I'm straight." Coming off an unending bender? But promises it will end? He loves her. Great tune. Haunting.

One of those songs you heard as a young child that makes an impression and stays with you.

Their voices are so incredible together. He has an element of Leonard Cohen. Hazelwood is wonderful. And Nancy sings angelically here. I just discovered Hazelwood and Nancy and both of them as a duet. Wow. So beautiful. And I love the innocent purity of the song, gone era, sadly.

best male/female duo ever

Lee Hazelwood was a brillant pop songwriter - this song is an indication - very unique and mystical sounding - he also penned the 1966 hit for Nancy, These Boots Are Made For Walking ... genius comes from the ability to write non complicated simple songs - this is the magic of pop songwriting - I will always be a fan!

Imagine hearing this driving, alone, on a deserted road as the sun first rises. My first experience with this song, and it has remained with me many years hence....

Still listening in 2023!

Nancy once said she never understood the Lyrics to some of Lee's songs But she loved them anyway. This is a Great Tune that takes me back to my Teen Years .

The transition between the two gives me goosebumps omg

When Art Bell still owned his Coast to Coast AM radio talk show , he often used this song as bumper music . I miss those nights 👽👻📻🖖😈🤖

This is really cool. The 60s must've been pretty trippy

One of the best singing duo’s I’ve ever heard 👍♥️

This is my favorite song in the whole universe. The only thing is nobody my age is not familiar with this beautiful melody since it’s extremely underrated & forgotten :(

Such a strange song. The video reinforces the dreamy disconnected mood. Feels like it should mean something very deep, as if it is a fragment of some long ballad - but it is just a permanent enigma.

This song absolutey creeps me out and I don't know why! And I continually go back over and over again to listen to it and I don't know why!

Just found out that Lee died in 2007... His records with Nancy have been in my life a long time, and they always touched my heart. Nobody does low voicing so good as Lee. His voice gives me goosebumps. The combination of him and Nancy was a golden one. They don't make songs like that anymore, or so it seems. RIP Lee...

Still love this one. Still touches my heart. It was on one of the first records I ever bought and it has never lost its magic.

I always thought this song haunting and beautiful and filled with underlying story. The character of Phaedra in mythology is both victim and victimizer and there is a wealth of undercurrent to the words in this lovely song. Beautifully done by both.

Lee & Nancy to me the greatest blending of the male and female voice... I don't thinkany two people have ever been able to out perform Nancy and Lee... Sounds just as fresh today as it did going on 50 years ago

Pure nostalgia. It captures the era.

He is so hansom and she is so beautiful. We were all so beautiful in the 60s.

I'm 25 years old and I love this song. I guess I have an old soul.

For some reason, this song kept going through my mind at about 4:00AM this morning...

This song and summer wine,my first husband songs. He past away. Then 2011 one of children past age 34. It's hard. I was 17 then now 60

I love how this song rotates between the old Western sound and feel of the open range.... to 70s hippie trippie .... and the juxtaposition of her voice and his.... almost like two twin stories bound in one hardcover book.

The career of Lee Hazelwood creates the iconic profile of the inseparable connection between songwriting and studio production/sound recording engineering in the early days of multi-track recording. He was a perfectionist with a clear view of his artistic goals. The original Psychedelic Cowboy

I probably commented earlier. This song is one of my all time favorite Top 10 songs. Always has been and always will be.

My bus driver used to blast this driving us to and from school. It was very eerie sounding but I like it.

I finally found their CD. I’m so excited I used to have the 78 but that was 50 years ago now I can listen to them again and I’m so sad Lee is gone from us. He had such a beautiful voice.

Incredible song.

What a strange but beautiful song.

Lyrics, notes, arrangement - never will be matched.

whenever i play this i always end up playing it 10 more times

The orchestration on this is sublime - the swelling strings and dramatic overture - truly magical

This music touches your soul

MASTERPIECE. Absolutely, completely brilliant, unique and beautiful.

Their partnership was amazing and enduring. I hear one of their songs and im transported back to a happier time.

Very bizarre song. Disturbing in a way. Especially nowadays. Great concept!

oh my gosh..what a song

Awww....Harry, this song has haunted me since 1968....Some Velvet Morning....you altered my life since 1967....I hope you are resting in peace--loving you since June, 1967.

Just one fantastic song from "my time" that I just keep coming back to and cry! My emotions are in tatters, since I lost my soul mate, and this stuff is so moving to me!

Trippin in the 60's.

My favorite Lee and Nancy song, hands down....

It blew my mind the first time I ever heard it. It's such a strange song, but I like it.

Utterly beautiful work of art !

I listen to Lee and Nancy all the time. I fell in love with their music when I was just 6 years old and have loved it ever since.

Thanks for posting. "In November 2003, music critics working for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed the Sinatra/Hazlewood single at the No. 1 spot in their list of the "50 Best Duets Ever."

Been listening to this for 50 years, and I still never tire of it.

This song has depth and, remember, it was marketed to mostly young people who were listening to music on little transistor radios. What an amazing era for music.

Nancy and Lee -Some velvet morning, awesome song about a girl named Phaedra

Amazing song!! That intro! That intro! That intro! It literally transports you back to the 60s. Could've been a song all by itself.

The instrumental is just wow.

never get tired of listening to the song

Oh and the changing back and forth between 4/4 and 3/4 time is pure genius. Would make it hard as hell to dance to, though...LOL

I never heard of this song until earlier this year on the 60s on 6 Satellite Survey Countdown on XM Radio. I fell in love with this song. This is probably one of the best songs of Nancy Sinatra's career. Real good stuff!!!

Clearly beautiful, mysterious, and very haunting.

bring back time when it was great and the songs...

NANCY SINATRA AND LEE HAZLEWOOD . . . THE VOICES !!!!

This is a surreal song, I like the change in tempo

I love this haunting song. I believe Nancy Sinatra has one of the best voices. Her voice is so clear with very little vibrato--pure tone.

its the incredible intro that gets me everytime, so complicated, beautiful, remember the tv broadcast like yesterday

I remembered when this aired on television. The biginning of the instrumental takes me back to 1968 in the living room sitting on the floor infront of the television with my 3 sisters and hearing my dad talking about going to his mother's funeral , "nonna". We just moved here from Green Island NY. Nonna just passed. Very Sad time.

I always feel like I really did belong in those days

HIS voice is so Perfect and Powerful ...

This song is so..dreamy.. so..unique..so..powerful and oh so.. beautful..! One of the best songs of all time..!

Wow! I remember hearing these songs on the radio! I was young. I remember liking them a lot! Summer Wine!!!

I was young when I heard this and I will never forget it.

An overlooked masterpiece.

Always loved this song. I became aware of it many years ago when listening to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.

His voice is eargasmic. Under-rated man

I used to love this song when I was little - it gave me chills and was hauntingly beautiful. I especially loved the name “Phaedra.” I just looked the name up and found out who Phaedra was. She was a figure in Greek mythology who fell in love with her husband’s son; her husband took his son’s life and then Phaedra offed herself. Blew me away how this song relates to that myth and the “powers that shouldn’t be.” (“I’m gonna open up your gate” - “gates” are occultic “portals.”) And I thought it sounded so innocent back then… 🤔

That intro emotionally kills you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just stop in to visit the memory of a long ago love. I think of you often Diane.

As a 7th grader, I used to hear this on the radio circa 1968.

Oh I absolutely loved this song growing up. Such a mystical song. So glad I found it again

Quite possibly, Lee and Nancy's very best, have always loved this song!

this song always sends chills up my spine. I love it!

The album is still in my collection it really 'moved me' all those decades ago. My Cat is called Phaedra because of this track!

I love these songs of the 60's. I get so lost in them!

beautiful song

The Nancy and Lee album is awesome. So many good songs on it. Still have the album. Have it on CD too.

i like the implication that Lee Hazlewood doesnt know the next time he will be sober in the morning

Absolutely unique songwriter

Haunting.incredible.