Sandie Shaw, c/d

I don't think she's as good a singer as Dusty Springfield.

She didn't suck in the 80s because (I think) she was at least semi-retired (possibly doing cabaret/chicken-in-the-basket circuit?) until The Smiths went and found her and encouraged her to rock out and roll around on the floor.

She semi-sucked when I saw her live in '86, the backing band just wasn't The Smiths, but she did have a member of The Jo-Boxers.

The clip of Sandie doing LLL on TOTP in 1965 (or was it 1966? M.Carlin to thread!)as deadpan-as-can-be is possibly my favourite TOTP moment ever. She still looked gorgeous in the 80's.

"We meet every night at eight/and I don't get home till late..." Fantastic!

I remember when she was promoting her autobiography, 'World At My Feet', and had forewarned all interviewers that any mention of 'Puppet On A String' would result in her walking out.
So, she went on 'Good Morning Britain'. Sat down, said hello, then by way of introduction they showed a montage featuring past performances of her many hits - including 'Puppet On A String'! - montage ended and back to a shot of the GMB couch with presenter... but no Sandie. She had got up and walked out. Flustered looking presenter then had to explain to the viewers what had happened and then had to struggle on with interviewing other guest, a bemused James Belushi.
Luckily they had managed to placate Sandy and were able to persuade her to come back on to gushing apologies from the presenter, Sandy told him "I'm sorry but I told you not to mention that song"
"I know, I know" the beleagured presenter tried to explain, "we haven't mentioned it though, but it was in our montage for which we apologise".
Apparently she doesn't much like 'Puppet On A String'.

Oh Classic though, definitely.

listening to her second album *ME* and between her voice and the pictures on the front and back cover i think i'm actually getting a little hot under the collar. sexy much?

love this picture cuz it seems that sandie and margot kidder (or karen allen) were seperated at birth:

http://garbonza.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/sandie-shaw-c10110761-jpeg.jpg

oof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBYmsvdv47o

and if you've never heard it you have to hear her song "till the night begins to die". so amazing. she wrote it.

Have you heard the Sandie Shaw Supplement? great versions of Route 66 (really) and Am I the Same Girl?

one of my all time favorite covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBaWLyz_LAg

idiot.
i meant of course, The Same Things, not Am I the Same Girl?

i love the Long Live Love clip with the empty totp studio, singing to an audience of one bloke in a cardigan. (pete murray?)

Her cover of Patti Smith's "Frederick" is astonishingly brilliant. I can't believe this isn't better-known

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CFieZRw48

sandie is prob my fav singer of all time

Bought a copy of the Me album off the sidewalk in my neighborhood today. It sounds so British, kind of the way Lily Allen sounds to me in our time. But Sandie is a more accomplished singer. The whole album could have fit in the Edgar Wright film Last Night in Soho - that's the vibe of it.

Her vibrato and phrasing are similar to Chrissie Hynde's but Sandie tends toward a higher register

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOU8ze5WucM

Another one for the "puns you had missed" thread

Love Sandie to bits.
this is brilliant - and a palatable way of enjoying a Morrissey song in 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuK5n-R8nw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDGEBvWz-s