These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ is one of my favorite songs, one of those that is perfect for making either an entrance or an exit. There’s probably not a day that passes without this song playing somewhere in the back of my head.
Written by Lee Hazelwood, this song has been recorded by everyone from Jessica Simpson to Megadeth but I prefer the version that made it famous, Nancy Sinatra’s.
Plus, the video for Nancy’s version cracks me up because, if you look real closely, one the dancers has got a run in her hose. *
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*Actually, as I sit here typing this on my lunch break, so do I.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Howdy. It’s been awhile. I don’t how you guys got by without me.
I remember liking this tune when I was a kid. I didn’t realize there was a video. I wasn’t aware that Megadeth had covered it, Please tell me Dave Mustaine did not appear in a miniskirt.
As for hose runs, I suspect that such a flaw is something that women are more likely to notice than men. I think we are too busy concentrating on what is right with other things. We aren’t competing; we’re appreciating.
By the way, in the 90’s, Nancy appeared in Playboy. (Someone else had the magazine – I swear. What was I supposed to do – not look?!) She was somewhere in her 50.s, and still looked great.
Really appreciate the video.
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To be honest, it was while doing some research for this post (mostly to find out how Lee Hazelwood spelled his name), that I first came across information about a Megadeth version of the song. My first reaction was, “Surely, there’s not actually a band called Megadeth.” But apparently, there is. 🙂
I had to laugh reading your comment regarding noticing the run in the dancer’s hose because I thought the exact same thing immediately after I posted this post. It’s like this time I was watching this old, cheap 1970s werewolf movie with a male friend of mine and I got really upset because the main actor had blue eyes yet whenever he “transformed” into a werewolf, he suddenly had brown eyes. And after I went on about this for a while, my friend admitted he hadn’t even noticed (or cared) until I pointed it out. “Women notice these things,” I told him, probably a bit too smugly for my own good.
I’m glad to see you back, KO. I was wondering where you were and I’m not sure how we got on without you either. 🙂
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Thanks to Lisa Marie I can’t get rid of this song from playing in my head. LOL
I think the boot fetish may have be born right after this song came out. I could be wrong but then most likely my logic tells me that I’m right.
And there truly is a band called Megadeth. The things you learn while researching for the site. 🙂
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I had taken a temporary job that required long hours, and I got a bit bogged down with it. But that is over. Now I am unemployed, so everything is great! 🙂 But at least I can keep up with the site again.
In defense of the cheap werewolf film, there probably is no such thing as a blue-eyed wolf. So maybe the producers were actually presenting a biologically-viable creature, a reconciliation of the science and the mythology resulting from careful consideration and analysis. You might say they were crazy like a …werefox…? (Boy, I’ve gotten rusty.) Or maybe they were just cheap and lame.
Boot fetishism may very well have started with this song. But I like to think of it as being timeless. But that’s just me.
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You got lots of catching up since you last visited and commented. Like the nonstop reviews I posted about all 5…yes there were five of them…Return of the Living Dead films. 🙂
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I thought there were only 3 of those. I haven’t seen any of them – I have had the impression that they were campy – all that stuff about “Brains!”. (You know how I hate camp in my zombie movies…!) It’s hard to find decent zombie features wherein the writers/producers give it to us straight. (Kudos to the “Walking Dead” crew, and for that matter, Fulci, for doing just that.) Maybe the gruesomeness of the premise makes them feel compelled to attempt comic relief. That just bugs me. I embrace the DIG philosophy of zombie storytelling – Dark, Intense, and Grim.
Anyway, I will check out your reviews. Maybe one or more of the….pentalogy(?)…would be worth a look.
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Thank you, Lisa, for getting this song stuck in my head now. At least it got Under Pressue out of there.
(I have yet to spot this phantom run.)
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