Product Description If ever there was a look and a voice that epitomised an era they belonged to Sandie Shaw, whose classic cool, ice blue eyes, bobbed raven hair and chiselled cheek bones graced just about every teenager's wall and young women's magazine cover from Boyfriend to Woman's Own and established her as the poster girl of The Swinging Sixties. She was the mod's perfect moll, a girl that every young "face" would have liked clinging to him on the back seat of his Lambretta 125. Sandie became an instant star in the second half of 1964 with a series of well-crafted smash hit singles. On her first LP (also a chart smash), released in February 1965, alongside the Chris Andrews originals, Sandie showed she was confident enough to stamp her own identity on covers of pop standards like It's In His Kiss, Baby I Need Your Loving, Love Letters and Always. We've added ten bonus cuts, including her first two number one singles (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me and Long Live Love. This is how the Sixties sounded in the clubs and on TV and radio, with a few strings attached and cover versions written by the illustrious likes of Irving Berlin, Holland, Dozier and Holland, Jackie DeShannon and, of course, Bacharach and David. All are testimony to Sandie's good taste and precocious talent as a teenager. She was able to do them justice bare-foot or with shoes.
T**N
Good first album and great bonus material.
I love the CD, I love the packaging and I love the booklet. Sandie Shaw was my favourite mainstream pop sixties female artist. Her voice and delivery being so distinctive. Great first album presented here with some great bonus material in the form of five singles (A & B sides). Great price too. However, I admit to being slightly disappointed because whoever remastered these tracks has brought Sandie's voice to the forefront such that the balance between the music and the singing doesn't sound like the original recordings. It's a personal choice but the original recordings to me sound more lively and full than these ones. 'Sandie Shaw The Collection' (Castle Communications) and '64/67 Complete Sandie Shaw' are more true to the originals but if you aren't a 60s collector you probably wouldn't notice a difference. Having said all that this CD is well worth having and I've already bought the two Sandie Shaw follow-up albums by the same label (Salvo on Union Square), so what do I know.
A**R
Very Good Re-Issue - Shaw Fine!
This is a vey good re-issue of Sandie Shaw's debut album in digi-pak form (58.27mins). It has excellent sound quality (remastered), and comes with a 16 page colour booklet that has some lovely images of Sandie and good liner notes. The first 12 tracks are the original album as released in 1965 and it's a mix of standards/cover versions (which are ok - the best being 'It's in his kiss') and 3 Chris Andrews originals - 2 of which are the highlights of the album. 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself' is fantastic and 'Gotta see my baby every day' which is also very good, but overall it's not a classic (5/10). The bonus tracks are great, they're the first 5 A & B sides (1964 - 65) which are all either very good or outstanding (3 of which are in mono - nice to get 'Long live love' in mono as I only have it in stereo on the 2004 Sandie Shaw Box Set). This is a great little value for money re-issue. 8/10.Also check out the other Sandie Shaw albums released on Salvo records 'Me' (1965) & 'Love me, please love me' (1967).
P**S
The start of a great career
Sandie Shaw emerged, seemingly from nowhere, to hit the top of the British charts with her second single, Always something there to remind me, which was a cover of an American song.This compilation contains both sides of Sandie's first five singles (tracks 13 to 22 here), following her first album (tracks 1 to 121 here) that avoided any of the A or B sides used on the singles. We must remember that in those days, singles were usually the big sellers and albums were mostly regarded as a luxury.Apart from Always something there to remind me, the singles from this period include Girl don't come and Long live love (the latter title was eventually also used for a completely different song recorded by Olivia Newton John for Eurovision 1974), but the album tracks are particularly interesting. They includes four original songs by Chris Andrews (Sandie's regular songwriter, who had a hit of his own with a song that Sandie rejected and didn't record, Yesterday man) and eight covers - well, not exactly covers but re-interpretations in some cases. If you are accustomed to Doris Day's version of Everybody loves a lover, Sandie's version will come as a shock. It was a shock to me the first time I heard it a few years ago, but while I'll always prefer the original, I enjoy Sandie's version too. Sandie's other covers are not as dramatically different as that one, but you certainly won't mistake them for the originals.This is the first of a series of five re-issues covering all of Sandie's original sixties music, and there's a further compilation featuring the hits and selected other tracks. I bought all six and they provide excellent reminders of Sandie's musical legacy.
K**R
Back to your past
Recall your youth
C**R
Five Stars
Item arrived in good time and as described
M**T
this is a great cd if you like Sadie Shaw really enjoy
Was delivered within the estimated delivery time, this is a great cd if you like Sadie Shaw really enjoy it
P**H
sandie, brings back the memories
i used to have a lot of these tracks on the old 45,s but they wore out or got lost over the years ,so its nice to have them all on a cd. If your a sandie shaw fan ,you should get this cd
R**D
Great item
Great item fast delivery Thanks Rod
