I preordered on HMV and got mine through the post this afternoon (big grins all round for me!) but the version I got was plain white card sleeve with grey writing like her album cover, and the CD itself had grooves in it, made out to look like a record. The limited editions also released today for Remma, Jobriath and James Maker were all like that too, although I knew that. Have I got a limited edition one or something?

i just heard Nancy's rendition of this song..and i wasn't impressed. Moz' version is far better. i like her voice, but this one is shait.

ezNow.

I checked out the sound samples of all the songs on her cd on CdNow. Her version of "Let me kiss you" is ok, but not as compelling as Morrisseys. I really like the song "Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad" though.

Amazon hasn't gotten the single to me yet, but I did pick up the Nancy Sinatra album and I like it very much! I like every song! I don't know how much this album will sell (it was kinda hard to find in stores) but I do believe on an artistic level this is a totally successful project that Nancy and Morrissey should be extremely proud of.

I'm not sure quite what's going on in the lyrics to "Momma's Boy"...she wants her son to "service" her? HOT!

I may end up liking Nancy's version of "Let Me Kiss You" even more than the Morrissey version because I like her voice and I think this version is slightly more fun and musically stimulating. It's a close call. I can have both.

At first I agreed with the other poster who feels the backing vocals should've been potted down, but on repeated listens I've come to love how they did it.

I'm also particularly impressed with the Jarvis Cocker collaborations. I'd like Nancy and Jarvis to do an entire album together.

Anyway, more top notch stuff from Attack Records!

While listening to this I was also reminded of another artist who's a big Nancy fan and has helped bring her to a new generation's attention: Quentin Tarantino, by using one of her songs during the opening of Kill Bill.

People often say that Tarantino looks vaguelly like Morrissey (like a somewhat deformed Morrissey). Increasingly I see them as very similar in some ways, despite their different personalities.

Morrissey and Tarantino have some shared musical tastes. They both find gangsters cool. They both like 1950s fashion. They go for Elvis over the Beatles.

They both love Charlie Feathers' rockabilly and have tried to turn people on to him (Tarantino included Feathers on two soundtracks the very same year Morrissey included him on his "Under the Influence" CD).

They both love Nancy Sinatra and have both been on a mission to help her make a comeback.

Tarantino loves putting together soundtrack albums as much as Morrissey loves compiling his influences or curating a festival. This is because they both feel the cool artists have never gotten their deserved credit and this needs to be changed.

One could take this further.

Morrissey is first and foremost a pop music FAN who just happened to have a go of pop stardom himself and see things from the other side.
Tarantino, an obsessive movie geek fan, is exactly the same way with movies. And part of the reason they are both unique voices in their respective fields is because their obsessive fandom led them to have unique sets of influences as well as a more thought-out approach to making their art than most (due to carefully studying the careers of others). Finally, both seem similarly obsessed with getting the rest of the world to love their obscure influences and heros. Tarantino is famous for re-igniting careers of actors he loves, and turning the world on to all the movies and filmmakers he borrows heavily from. Morrissey does the same thing with pop artists, most recently with the CD "Morrissey Presents: The Return of the NY Dolls."

Both Morrissey and Tarantino do not just want to be great artists in their respective fields, they are also generously hellbent on ensuring the world fully appreciates and remembers artists who were their heros, as if both are saying the crap has gotten too much hype it's time for real music and movie fans to step in here and fix things.

They picked a strong song for the B-side. I use B-side advisedly because this is a 'retro-vinyl replica' so I suppose even this lovely black CD single has 'sides'. It's very strange how what would be the silvery aluminium bit (not the label side) that you'd normally see on a CD is actually shiney black. The label side has the release info. in the middle and most of it is a replica of groves which you can run your fingernail across and feel. No witty etching from Morrissey though.

I've never seen an all black CD before. Is it a first I wonder?

Nancy Sinatra is just an old whore...a slag hag.

...doing very well on Radio 2 - much more so than Morrissey's version I might add. Wonder what the chart positions will be like?

The backing vocals on the NS version are lousy (sorry Moz) and really spoil it for me. They should have gone for a full-on duet instead where they sang alternate lines or verses or something.
The voices clash and it's quite dischordant (is that a word?)

I prefer Morrissey's version. Anybody else think that if Debbie Harry (Blondie) done a version, it'd sound almost exactly like N.S's version?
Next time you hear it, close your eyes and imagine it... it's Blondie doing a Morrissey song!

TT