I had never even heard of this crazy-ass 60's psychedelic song before last weekend, but now I'm hip. For whatever reason one of the Subgenius radio shows devoted an entire hour to playing the original recording along with every cover version of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Some Velvet Morning". Needless to say that after that onslaught this song is permanently stuck in my head.
Also, Nancy Sinatra sure was hot.
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Interested parties should check out the multitude of covers available as well:
# 1968 Gabor Szabo - guitar instrumental on Bacchanal
# 1969 Vanilla Fudge on Near the Beginning
# 1982 Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard, 12" single later issued on Honeymoon In Red
# 1986 Peter Zaremba's Love Delegation on Spread the Word
# 1990 Eedie & Eddie and the Reggaebots programmed by Peter S Langston; featured in Computing Systems Quarterly Vol. 3 No. 2
# 1992 Starpower ex-Primitives spinoff band (probably the most psychedelic version recorded)
# 1993 Slowdive on Souvlaki
# 1995 Thin White Rope on Spoor
# 2001 My Dying Bride on Peaceville X & Meisterwerk 2
# 2002 Primal Scream and Kate Moss on Evil Heat. A different version was released as a single in 2003 and included on Primal Scream's compilation Dirty Hits
# 2002 The Webb Brothers on the Lee Hazlewood tribute album, Total Lee!
# 2002 Entombed on Sons Of Satan Praise The Lord
# 2004 Firewater on Songs We Should Have Written
# 2007 Lee Hazlewood & Phaedra Dawn Stewart (his granddaughter) on Cake or Death
