20 Landmark Songs Of The 60s

13. Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4 So let's go back to the initial point about the music of the 60's being a decade of construction. 'Some Velvet Morning' is an utterly beguiling piece of music that is truly psychedelic; the darkness of Lee Hazelwood's voice mixed with Nancy Sinatra's butter wouldn't melt sweetness makes for a truly disturbing and beautiful tune. Feel free to Google what the song is actually about, but the point is how wonderful the music sounds and the influence it had on songs that followed it. It combines an orchestral introduction, with a gunslinger entering the picture, a dark country and western tune for Hazelwood's parts to tell his side of the story 'Some velvet morning when I'm straight, I'm going to open up your gate' with the light pop of Sinatra's parts, where she sets herself up as the ultimate muse, the interchange between the two voices gets shorter as the song goes on and gives the hallucinogenic effect of speeding the song up. In later decades the awful term 'post-modernism' arrived, essentially defining a meshing of styles, or if we want to be properly streetwise then the word is mash up, and if you loved 'Stan' by Eminem and Dido or any hip-hop band, well love this even more, it set the template nearly 30 years beforehand and was the original mash up, two completely distinct styles making a symbiotic howl.