Nancy Sinatra

I was a pretty upbeat, contented 16-year-old, I followed all the rules. I loved school. I excelled and I loved it.

I didn’t rebel at all. I wore straight skirts, and sweaters and saddle shoes and Bobby socks. The shorter skirts came later. Home life was pretty ordinary. I had a brother and a sister and a mother, and my dad would come and go. We were very, very close, all of us. In my high school years, my dad wasn’t as famous or popular as he became later or as he had been prior, in the big band days in the Forties. It was all kind of normal.

I composed a lot of music for the school concerts, which we had every year. And I used to go to the record stores all the time. There was one in Hollywood