Sandy Posey
Born a Woman - MGM 1966 Comments:There may not be many who remember Sandy Posey and her rather short time in the limelight. I remembered her hits "Single Girl" and especially "I Take it Back" which I was quite fond of. Posey has a really nice vocal and recently I felt like rummaging through her back catalogue.
Her first album "Born a Woman" named after her breakthrough single of the same name was released in 1966 on MGM. The title song was written by Martha Sharp and is a relatively modern pop-country song, in contrast to some of the other tracks, which sound a bit more ordinary, usually a little too much sauced into strings.
However, Posey's vocals are generally strong and outshine Chips Moman's somewhat uneven arrangements, which include has some weird fast fade-outs.
Posey herself proves to be a skilled songwriter and contributes three self-composed tracks. All three of them belong to the good end. "You Got to Have love to Be Happy" is upbeat, a bit Motown-like and simply arranged. "Blue is My Best Color" and "Arms Full of Sin", unfortunately, are burdened by too many strings, which, however, cannot hide the pretty nice songs - especially the latter.
For me, the favorites, besides the title song, are J.D. Loudermilk's sweet "If Tears Had Colors in Them" and Chip Moman's "This Time"; here one could easily imagine a Patsy Cline version.
Most of the other tracks are known from other artists, but I think Posey's version of "Strangers in the Night" is really nice - I never liked Sinatra's version, but I now realize that it's a really a great song.
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