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This article is about the television special. For the soundtrack album, see Movin' With Nancy (album).
Movin' With Nancy was a television special featuring Nancy Sinatra in a series of musical vignettes featuring herself and other artists. Produced by Nancy's production company, Boots Enterprises, Inc., and sponsored by Royal Crown Cola, the show was originally broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11, 1967 (8:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern). It produced a companion soundtrack album, and was later released on DVD.
Movin' With Nancy
Soundtrack albumGenre Musical Directed by Jack Haley, Jr. Produced by Nancy Sinatra Written by Tom Mankiewicz Starring Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood, Dean Martin, David Winters Music by Billy Strange Editing by David E. Blewitt, David Saxon Country United States Language English Original channel NBC Release date December 11, 1967 Running time 60 mins. No. of episodes 1 Contents
Summary
The TV special was unlike most musical programs of its time, with the numbers performed outdoors on locations instead of the usual stage-bound production filmed before a live audience. Sinatra sang while driving down the highway, strolling in the California countryside, and aloft in a hot-air balloon. She performed duets with the guest stars she encountered along the way, with no introductions or interstitial dialog. The general effect was of a dream-like fantasy that flows from one location to the next, with segments resembling the later format of music videos.
The program included an on-screen interracial kiss, predating the first scripted interracial kiss on U.S. television by several months (in an episode of Star Trek). It took place at the end of a song-and-dance number by Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., with him kissing her affectionately on the cheek. Sinatra states in the commentary track on the DVD release that the seemingly spontaneous kiss was carefully planned, and deliberately done at the end of filming, when Davis had to leave for another job and could not shoot a retake.[1]
The production
Movin' was produced and directed by Jack Haley, Jr., with Nancy billed as executive producer as well as star, and featured guest appearances by her father, Frank Sinatra, her "fairy God-Uncle" (Dean Martin), who does a solo song and a duet with Nancy, Lee Hazlewood (who wrote most of her hit songs), dancer David Winters (who was also nominated for a special Emmy for his choreography), and Sammy Davis Jr. RC Cola sponsored the show and created five lavish commercials — in two of them, Sinatra danced and sang the RC jingle ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cola!"). Art Linkletter served as the narrator for two of the commercials that opened and closed the program.
Song list
Collapsible Song List Title Written by Performed by "I Gotta Get Out of This Town" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra "Up, Up and Away" Jimmy Webb Nancy Sinatra "Sugar Town" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra "Some Velvet Morning" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood "Jackson" Jerry Leiber, Billy Edd-Wheeler Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood "This Town" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra "Just Bummin' Around" Pete Graves Dean Martin "Things" Bobby Darin Dean Martin, Nancy Sinatra "What'd I Say?" Ray Charles Sammy Davis Jr., Nancy Sinatra "Wait Till You See Him" (orig. "her") Rodgers and Hart Nancy Sinatra "Younger Than Springtime" Rodgers and Hammerstein Frank Sinatra "Friday's Child" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra "See the Little Children" Lee Hazlewood Nancy Sinatra "Who Will Buy?" Lionel Bart Nancy Sinatra Sequels
Two other "Movin' with Nancy" specials followed after the original was such a success. "Movin' with Nancy on Stage" aired in 1971[2] and was presented by "The Ed Sullivan Show." It featured the Osmond Brothers, among others, as guests. "Movin' with Nancy Nice 'n' Easy" was produced in 1973 and featured The Muppets. Although Nancy hoped to release the two other specials on DVD, as of 2009, no plans have been made.
DVD release
The special was released on DVD by Image Entertainment on May 2, 2000. It features a commentary track. In it, Sinatra reminisces about the outfits she was wearing in the show, and regrets not including her signature song, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", as part of the production. At the time, she states she wanted to showcase her other songs instead. Sinatra also mentions that the RC Cola commercials were designed to be an integral part of the show.[1]
See also
- Movin' With Nancy soundtrack album (1968)
References
- ^ a b Nancy Sinatra (2000). Movin' with Nancy (DVD Commentary Track). Chatsworth, CA: Image Intertainment.
- ^ Staff (1971). "Movin' With Nancy on Stage". Variety. New York Times. http://tv.nytimes.com/show/55692/Movin-With-Nancy-on-Stage/overview. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
External links
- Movin' With Nancy at the Internet Movie Database
- Movin' With Nancy at TV.com
- Movin' With Nancy at AllRovi
- Movin With Nancy at Rotten Tomatoes
- Movin With Nancy at You Tube
Categories:- English-language films
- Nancy Sinatra songs
- American television specials
- 1967 television episodes
- NBC network shows
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