{"id":237,"date":"2007-08-07T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:08:28","slug":"singerproducer-hazlewood-was-a-keener-fave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Singer\/Producer Hazlewood was a Keener fave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/hazlewood.jpg\" align=left border=0\/>He was best known as the writer\/producer of Nancy Sinatra&#8217;s 1966 break through &#8220;These Boots Are Made For Walking&#8221;, but Lee Hazlewood, who died this week at age 78, put his imprint on a number of Keener hits. The former Arizona disk jockey charted twice as a singer. A pair of duets with Sinatra, &#8220;Jackson&#8221; and &#8220;Some Velvet Morning&#8221;, made their way to the WKNR Music Guide in 1967. But his work behind the scenes had a longer reach. He co-wrote Duane Eddy&#8217;s smash &#8220;Rebel Rouser&#8221;, worked as producer for Dean Martin, Dusty Springfield, Dino, Desi &#038; Billy and Petula Clark and handled the controls when?Sinatra Senior asked him to?produce?the?Frank and Nancy top 5 classic &#8220;Something Stupid&#8221;. The songs he wrote provided a lifetime of financial security that allowed Hazlewood to thumb his nose at the record company establishment. Yet he kept recording until the end. His?final collection &#8220;Cake or Death&#8221; was released last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=12537578\">Here&#8217;s how NPR showcased his life and career<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was best known as the writer\/producer of Nancy Sinatra&#8217;s 1966 break through &#8220;These Boots Are Made For Walking&#8221;, but Lee Hazlewood, who died this week at age 78, put his imprint on a number of Keener hits. The former Arizona disk jockey charted twice as a singer. A pair of duets with Sinatra, &#8220;Jackson&#8221; and &#8220;Some Velvet Morning&#8221;, made their way to the WKNR Music Guide in 1967. But his work behind the scenes had a longer reach. He co-wrote Duane Eddy&#8217;s smash &#8220;Rebel Rouser&#8221;, worked as producer for Dean Martin, Dusty Springfield, Dino, Desi &#038; Billy and Petula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","tag-lee-hazlewood","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}