Sandy Posey
Looking at You - MGM 1968 Comments:"Looking at You" from 1968 was Sandy Posey's last album for MGM and it would be almost four years before she again was out with a new album; now for Columbia and the style had now become more pure country-pop. In the intervening period she had worked as a background singer for e.g. Elvis Presley.
There are no major hits on "Looking at You", but the one single from the album, "Something I'll Remember", written by Buddy Buie and James Cobb, is really nice, and the album as a whole is probably the most successful of her four MGM albums.
Most of the album is, like the previous ones, produced by Chips Moman and is overall a fine continuation. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil are behind two of the album's finest tracks "Shades of Grey" and "It's not Easy". For the former, I would clearly prefer Posey's version to The Monkees', which is not bad either. The latter is in a girl-group style, something that suits Posey very well. Posey's version of the classic "Will You Love me Tomorrow" is more upbeat than most other versions, and an absolutely worthy version.
"Handy" written by Penn/Carter/Oldham is a sweet little pop tune that surprises by having both a clear acoustic guitar and a small electric guitar solo. Posey regularly wrote songs for her records herself, and her "Silly Girl, Silly boy" is fine, as her songs usually were.
On the final track "One Man Woman" we hear a somewhat different side of Posey; a fine Motown-esque number written by Joe South.
On some versions of the album, it is expanded with some contemporary single sides. Posey's own "All Hung up in Your Green Eyes" and "Take Me with You Baby" are especially welcome additions here; the latter was written by Martha Sharp, who also wrote Posey's two big hits "Born a Woman" and "Single Girl".
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