I'm a lover, baby - everybody loves me

Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

25/04/65 : Sandie - Sandie Shaw


Sandie is a lady who I've certainly heard of, but apart from "Puppet On A String" I don't think I can name any of her tracks, so it will be interesting to see how much I know of this. 

Well, I knew a fair few tracks, but only because Sandie had borrowed them off other people - "It's In His Kiss", "Downtown", "Love Letters" and "I Need Your Loving" were the ones I definitely knew, but there were a couple of others I might have heard before as well. And Sandie's versions are all fine - I'd struggle to say any of them are exactly something anyone needs, but it's a fun enough album and doesn't hang around long enough to be annoying.

We're at #14 in the charts this week on ninth week of a ten week run, with it having peaked at #3 in it's fourth week (which feels somewhat generous). The top five this week were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bob again and The Kinks (our first week this year with no Julie Andrews!) and there's a new entry for Elvis Presley (#16).

Wikipedia tells us this is her debut album and the only one she ever charted with, despite her having eight top ten and three #1 singles (including "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me" which I'd ironically completely forgotten about) in her career. There are four original tracks on there, all written by Chris Andrews who was apparently signed to the label to be Sandie's main songwriter. And that's pretty much it except for one very unkind retrospective review which says "wafer-thin production, shoddy original material, lousy covers and one-dimensional vocalizing and interpretive skills from Sandie herself" - it's not a great album, but it's not that bad! Her entry tells us she's officially retired from the music business now, but is still with us at the relatively young age of 78.

"Customers also listened to" Cilla Black, The Tremeloes, The Merseybeats and The Bachelors - we've only met Cilla so far but I imagine the others will pop up at some point earlier in the 60s at some point. We're never going to meet Sandie again though, so I was pleased we bumped into her even if it's not exactly a great album.

18/04/65 - Fine if a bit dated
02/05/65 - An educational visit

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