United Western Recorders

It was a lot of fun to create those songs and even more fun to hear them on the radio.

I remember Brian being so impulsive that when we'd do a song at Western Recorders and finish the song, whatever song it was, and he'd go to the radio station and have it played on the air just so he could hear it played back.

Immediate gratification.

That's pretty pioneering, really.

This particular session included Don Randi on piano and Chuck Berghofer on double bass, providing the notable bass line with its quarter tone descent.

The session was held on November 19th, 1965, at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, California.

Here is Nancy Sinatra's version of her number one international hit from 1966, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.

[upbeat music] You keep saying you got something for me.

In early 1967, Frank Sinatra had played C. Carson Parks' original recording of the song Somethin' Stupid to Lee Hazlewood.

Hazlewood reportedly loved the tune and told Frank, and I quote, "If you don't sing it with Nancy, I will." End quote.

Frank and Nancy's rendition was recorded at United Western Recorders in Hollywood on February 1st, 1967, with backing by session musicians from L.A.'s famed Wrecking Crew.

Lee Hazlewood and Jimmy Bowen were listed as the producers of the single, with the arrangement by Billy Strange.

In the studio, I remember we were having a paper airplane contest.

It was a very, very long hall at Western Recorders.

And we would have to precisely, the plane had to fly down the hallway in a straight line, and we were seeing who could get the furthest.

One night, he came into the studio with his new ship, and he had painstakingly created a small sailplane out of paper.