Sandie

Infobox Album | Name = Sandie
Type = Album
Artist = Sandie Shaw

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Released = 1965
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Pye
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This album = "Sandie"
(1965)
Next album = "Me"
(1965) |

"Disambiguation: you may also be looking for Sawney or Sandy"

"Sandie" is the first album or L.P. by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw. Released in February 1965 on the Pye label, it was her only original album to ever enter the UK chart and peaked at Number 3 (most of Shaw's success was on the sale of her singles). In the few months prior to the album's release, Shaw had scored two major hits with the Bacharach/David-penned "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" and Chris Andrews's "Girl Don't Come".

Andrews had been signed to Shaw as her main songwriter and contributed four new songs to her debut album. These tracks were later released on an E.P. entitled "Talk About Love." The other eight tracks on the "Sandie" album were reworkings of songs made popular by other artists. "Sandie" was eventually released on the CD format on the RPM label in the 1990s as a double package with her second album, "Me", and this package was later released in digitally remastered format by EMI in September 2005 with bonus French-language versions of two of the Chris Andrews tracks.

Tracklisting and song information

# Everybody Loves a Lover
# Gotta See My Baby Every Day
# Love Letters
# Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
# Always
# Don't Be That Way
# It's In His Kiss
# Downtown
# You Won't Forget Me
# Lemon Tree
# Baby I Need Your Loving
# Talk About Love

The album opens with "Everybody Loves a Lover," a song originally made popular by Doris Day (written by Robert Allen and Richard Adler) and was actually the song performed by Shaw the first time she met her mentor and discoverer Adam Faith. Song number two is Andrews' "Gotta See My Baby Every Day," (also recorded by Adam Faith) which is then followed by "Love Letters," written by Victor Young and Edward Heyman, and originally made popular by Ketty Lester. Another Andrews track - "Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself" is song number four (which was also a single for Adam Faith), before a version of Irving Berlin's "Always." Side one then ends with the third Andrews track on the album - "Don't Be That Way."

Side two kicks off with "It's In His Kiss," a fairly recent hit at the time (as was "Love Letters"). Written by Rudy Clark and first made famous by Betty Everett the song (which is also known as "The Shoop Shoop Song") had been a big hit in the US in 1964 and was later an international hit for Cher some 27 years later. It is followed on the "Sandie" record by "Downtown," another fairly recent hit for fellow British songbird Petula Clark, penned by Tony Hatch. Continuing with the covers, next comes "You Won't Forget Me," written by Sharon Sheeley and Jackie DeShannon as a hit for DeShannon and then Will Holt's "Lemon Tree" (a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary). The penultimate track is a Motown cover of "Baby I Need Your Loving," made popular by the Four Tops and penned by Motown songwriters Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. Side two finishes with the final Andrews composition on the album "Talk about Love."

The album showcases Shaw's talent for singing a variety of different songs - the ones written especially for her as well as a range of old and new cover versions covering both mainstream pop, easy listening and soul. It is an interesting insight into the start of the 17-year-old's twenty-four year career.