Somethin' Stupid
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| Single by Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra | |
| from the album The World We Knew | |
| B-side | "I Will Wait for You" (Frank) |
| Released | March 1967 |
| Format | Vinyl record (7") |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 2:37 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Writer(s) | C. Carson Parks |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Bowen, Lee Hazlewood |
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| Single by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman | |||||||||||||
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| Released | December 14, 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, cassette, DVD single | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, vocal jazz | ||||||||||||
| Length | 2:50 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Chrysalis | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | C. Carson Parks | ||||||||||||
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"Somethin' Stupid", also "Something Stupid", is a song written by C. Carson Parks. It was originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as Carson and Gaile. The song is best known for the 1967 version by Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy Sinatra, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2001, a cover version by British singer Robbie Williams and actress Nicole Kidman reached number one in the UK Singles Chart.
In the early 1960s, Carson Parks was a folk singer in Los Angeles. He was an occasional member of The Easy Riders, and also performed with The Steeltown Three, which included his younger brother Van Dyke Parks. In 1963, he formed the Greenwood County Singers, later known as The Greenwoods, who had two minor hits and included singer Gaile Foote. Before the Greenwoods disbanded, Parks and Foote married and, as Carson and Gaile, recorded an album in 1966 for Kapp Records, San Antonio Rose, which included the song "Something Stupid". The recording was then brought to the attention of Frank Sinatra.
The most successful and best-known version of "Somethin' Stupid" was issued in 1967 as a single by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra and subsequently appeared on Frank's album The World We Knew. Frank had played Parks' recording to his daughter's producer, Lee Hazlewood, who recalled "He asked me, 'Do you like it?' and I said, 'I love it, and if you don't sing it with Nancy, I will.' He said, 'We're gonna do it, book a studio.'" Their rendition was recorded on February 1, 1967. Al Casey played guitar on the recording and Hal Blaine was the drummer. Hazlewood and Jimmy Bowen were listed as the producers of the single, with arrangement by Billy Strange.
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