Nancy... Boots

[Bucky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkovnss7sg

[pokerfan]

1. "How would you like $1 million?"

Lee Hazlewood: "When 'Boots' was #1 in half the countries in the world, Nancy came over to my house, and she was crying. She said, 'They didn't pick up on my option at Reprise and they said I owed them $12,000.' I said, 'You're kidding, we've got the biggest record in the world.' I rang my lawyer in New York and I rang Nancy the next day and said, 'How would you like $1 million? I've got 3 labels that are offering that for you right now and I can get something pretty good for myself as well.' She talked to her father and he said she could write her own contract with Reprise - after all she was selling more records than him at the time." (1000 UK #1 Hits, Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh)

"Lee wrote 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'' for himself. But I told him, 'It's better for a girl to sing it, because when you sing it, it sounds mean. When I sing it, it will be sexy and cute." (Rolling Stone, December 27, 2007)