Written by:
Lee Hazlewood
Initial release/radio session:
Words of Expectations
Subsequent release:
The Complete Peel Sessions – 1978 – 2004
Group on initial recording:
Brix Smith – guitar; Steve Hanley – bass; Julia Nagle – keyboards; Simon Wolstencroft – drums; Karl Burns – drums; Lucy Rimmer – vocals
Commentary:
A cover version of a song recorded by Nancy Sinatra for the B side of the single These Boots Are Made For Walking, released in 1966 on the Reprise label. The full title of the original is The City Never Sleeps At Night. Daryl Easlea, in his notes accompanying the release of The Complete Peel Sessions (details above)writes: “The session’s real curiosity was occasional vocalist’s Lucy Rimmer’s Smith-less version of Nancy Sinatra’s The City Never Sleeps. This most American of numbers takes on an English madrigal quality, with her plaintive tones underpinned by the group’s light-as-a-feather backing.”