Sandy Posey – Born A Woman, The Complete MGM Recordings
2CDs containing Sandy Posey’s four classic MGM album releases in their entirety.
Includes seven non-album tracks, plus rare Italian language versions of ‘Born A Woman’ and ‘Single Girl’.
Features an extensive new essay on the life and career of one of the most enigmatic and innovative female artists of the 1960s.
In the mid-60s, Alabama-born Sandy Posey gently tore down the walls that traditionally separated girl groups, beat groups, country, and rhythm and blues to fashion a unique brand of smart, sassy, and emotionally searing pop.
An inspiration to the young Dolly Parton and revered by British Mods, the effortlessly chic Posey was later idolized by, among many others, Morrissey, who included her ‘I Take It Back’ in his 1989 list of “Singles To Be Cremated With”, and power pop favourites The Primitives, who revisited Posey’s ‘Single Girl’ in 2012.
‘Born A Woman’ brings together for the first time the MGM albums Posey recorded with the legendary Chips Moman in Memphis between 1966 and 1968. Also included are a clutch of wonderful non-album singles and Italian language versions of the million-selling hits ‘Born A Woman’ and ‘Single Girl’.
With extensive liner notes by Brian Ward, ‘Born A Woman’ is the perfect introduction to a tremendous singer, under-appreciated songwriter, and enduring style icon at the peak of her genre-defying powers.
Enjoy the best of Sandy Posey: a singular woman and monumental talent.
TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE
BORN A WOMAN
1 Born A Woman
2 Miss Lonely
3 You Got To Have Love To Be Happy
4 Just Out Of Reach
5 Blue Is My Best Color
6 Strangers In The Night
7 It’s All In The Game
8 Satin Pillows
9 Arms Full Of Sin
10 If Tears Had Color In Them
11 This Time
12 Caution To The Wind
SINGLE GIRL
13 Hey Mister
14 Patterns
15 A Place In The Sun
16 The Last Day Of Love
17 I’m Your Puppet
18 Here Comes My Baby Back Again
19 Single Girl
20 Shattered
21 See Ya’ Round On The Rebound
22 Don’t Touch Me
23 I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
24 The Twelfth Of Never
NON LP TRACKS
25 What A Woman In Love Won’t Do
26 Nata Donna (Born A Woman) (sung in Italian)
27 Sempre Sola (Single Girl) (sung in Italian)
DISC TWO
SANDY POSEY FEATURING ‘I TAKE IT BACK’
1 I Take It Back
2 Standing In The Rain
3 The Big Hurt
4 Sunglasses
5 Bread And Butter
6 I Can Show You How To Live
7 It’s Wonderful To Be In Love
8 Love Of The Common People
9 Halfway To Paradise
10 The Boy I Love
11 Come Softly To Me
LOOKING AT YOU
12 Deep In Kentucky
13 The Meadow Of My Love
14 Just You, Just Me (And Love For Company)
15 It’s Not Easy
16 Silly Girl, Silly Boy
17 Something I’ll Remember
18 Handy
19 Shades Of Gray
20 Out Of Tune
21 Will You Love Me Tomorrow
22 One Man Woman
NON LP TRACKS
23 Take Me With You Baby
24 Are You Never Coming Home
25 Ways Of The World
26 The Wonderful World Of Summer
27 Your Conception Of Love
28 All Hung Up In Your Green Eyes
