Nancy Nardin

Born in Israel and raised in France, the sultry voice of singer/songwriter Nancy Danino has been the highlight of everything from film soundtracks to Scandinavian pop hits.

Records like Nancy Sinatra, which take a pop icon, surround her with current admirers for collaborators, and hope for a sound both modern and classic, are quite often disasters and almost never live up to even the most grudging of high hopes. Well, thanks to this (and Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose), you can toss that theory out the window, because Nancy Sinatra is a resounding success.

With Nancy playing up the "girly" and Lee doubling down on the "manly," the duo's 1968 Reprise album "Nancy & Lee" turned an unlikely pairing into a vocal-pop delight-and a #13 LP. Four years later, Nancy and Lee reunited for a second album-one that proved to be every bit as endearing and several degrees more ambitious. Ranging from boldly psychedelic to sweetly cinematic, "Nancy & Lee Again" (1972) features the epic "Arkansas Coal (Suite)," the sensual "Paris Summer," the Dolly Parton-penned "Down from Dover," the country-flavored "Did You Ever" (a #2 UK smash) and more. This first-ever reissue of "Nancy & Lee Again" includes the bonus songs "Machine Gun Kelly" (first time on vinyl) and "Think I'm Coming Down" (previously unreleased) and the audio here is newly remastered from the original analog tapes. The expanded gatefold sleeve contains a 20-page booklet and features never-before-seen photos from Nancy's personal archive. And the #1 reason you should jump on this: it's a Collectors' Choice Music Exclusive pressing on hot-lookin' hot pink vinyl, limited to just 500 copies!

Through the songs or ‘chansons’, we are given the chance to be transported back to a point when the word, note, instrument and performer collided to document impressions of a world lived long ago and yet with which we share so much. As songs that had a vibrant life beyond the words, we are afforded an entrance into the evergreen world of instrumental music of the Renaissance, into music that filled the taverns and dwellings of Paris and beyond. This is why these works maintain such relevance for us today.