Movin With Nancy Region 2 Music Cd

Frank Sinatra - Movin With Nancy Region 2

Movin' with Nancy [Region 2]      ProductGroup: DVD      Actor(s): Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lee Hazlewood, David Winters, Sammy Davis Jr.      Director(s): Jack Haley Jr. Movie      Avg. Customer Rating : (33 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Movin With Nancy Region 2      Rocking good!      Rating:      I remember watching this on a Monday night on NBC as part of their December to remember promotion. Even in black & white, this was a gas. In color, it's magnificent. Gotta Get Out of this Town & What'd I Say really Nancy at her best. The Royal Crown Commercials must truly be seen to be believed (and I actually do remember Robbie Porter, the Australian Crooner). The clothes are so '60's, almost Barbielike.. And I still have no idea what Some Velvet Morning is supposed to be about but I love it     Customer Reviews for Movin With Nancy Region 2 Cd      Polished      Rating:      I wasn't expecting this DVD to be much of anything, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is an important time capsule, and we are reminded of the fashion trends, autos, music, and commercials of the '60s, exquisitely preserved on film. Nancy's music and singing are exceptional, although some of her presentations are characteristically stiff, somewhat formal. There are some wonderful duets with Lee Hazlewood, and the chemistry between the two shines. Her father's contribution to this video collection is absolutely superb. Frank had a natural warmth and charm when on camera. This is a cool DVD, made cooler with original "RC Cola" TV ads and a bonus footage section, narrated by Nancy (she had me in stitches; what a hoot). Editorial Reviews for Movin With Nancy Region 2 Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Network television was already wrestling with a generation gap and the rowdy cultural upheaval posed by rock when NBC aired this 1967 special for Nancy Sinatra, with younger viewers increasingly tuning out the typical videotaped studio productions that typified TV specials. To sidestep those conventions (and, one suspects, to showcase the star's modest performing gifts to best advantage), director Jack Haley Jr. shot Movin' with Nancy on film in and around Los Angeles, yielding sequences that anticipate the visual experiments that would characterize music videos more than a decade later. The results are intriguing: for Sinatra's fans, the chance to see her in all her leggy, miniskirted glory will be irresistible, but amateur pop sociologists will be at least as fascinated by the period details and some unwittingly bizarre undercurrents. For the putative teen viewers of the day, there's the psychedelic montage of "Some Velvet Morning," one of several duets with Sinatra's frequent partner at that time, Lee Hazlewood (a country-tinged, B-team Sonny to her blonde variation on Cher), interweaving the two singers on horseback and making much out of bewildering references to Phaedra. For the grownups, there are segments teaming her with Dean Martin (awkwardly addressed as her "god-uncle") and Sammy Davis Jr., as well as a reverential sequence in which she caresses oversized posters of her famous father (including a still from his then-current crime feature, Tony Rome, depicting him with a menacing pistol) that raises all sorts of knotty psychiatric issues. The mix of Rat Pack glitz, flower power, and mainstream pop gets an added kick with Day-Glo fashions cut to Carnaby Street lines, vintage commercials for Royal Crown Cola ("It's a mad, mad, mad, mad cola!"), and pop covers that likewise lock in a sense of temporal dislocation as Nancy gamely tackles "Up, Up and Away" (in a hot air balloon, of course) and "Who Will Buy?" from Oliver!, here goosed with go-go powered dancing. --Sam Sutherland