Sandie – SANDIE SHAW**

Everybody Loves A Lover/Gotta See My Baby Every Day/Love Letters/Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself/Always/ Don’t Be That Way/Its In His Kiss/Downtown/You Won’t Forget Me/Lemon Tree/Baby I Need Your Loving/Talk About Love

Dagenham girl Sandie Shaw's only album chart success came with her debut Sandie. She is best remembered for her string of UK hit singles between 1964 and 1969, three of which hit the top spot. A compilation CD which includes all her marvellous Chris Andrews' songs can be strongly recommended. (UK:3)

"Is there nothing from her 60s albums that merit inclusion. A couple of things perhaps, but not much if this release, her first original album, is anything to go by."

"Her debut album Sandie is a hastily and unimaginatively assembled mishmash of throwaway covers and a couple of interesting if not exactly top drawer originals. The songs Chris Andrews specially wrote for her save the set from being the cheaply produced and horribly amateurish debut it is. Just listen to the screechy voices of those backing singers. They ought to have been fired. Compared to Dusty's debut - a landmark album, or Cilla's - a period classic full of beat and boomy ballads, Sandie was a pretty dire debut."

"This set is essential for fans only, or for those who have checked her out via any of her hits compilations and found they like her enough to wade through her secondary material. It may seem harsh, and I'm a big fan, but Sandie in the 60s was the archetypical singles artiste. This is not the place to discover her."

"Barefoot and mini-skirted, Shaw became an icon for her generation and a truly great vocal talent. Her deft swing phrasing even proved the perfect foil for Andrew's curious embracing of the German oom-pah band sound."

"Sandie quickly established herself as one of the most important female singers of her generation, at least in Britain, between 1964 and 1967. Sandie was best suited to uptempo material."

"From an era where there wasn't too much success for female singers, Sandie has been mostly overlooked and underplayed because most radio stations will play Dusty Springfield."