Sandy Posey
Single Girl - MGM 1966 Comments:"Single Girl" is the title of Sandy Posey's second 1966 album and just as the debut album "Born a Woman" it bears the title of a hit single. Several of the songs were recorded during the same sessions as her debut. Stylistically, it is not notably different from the debut with several recurring songwriters and still produced by Chips Moman; the tracks are perhaps generally a bit better and more contemporary arranged.
The album opens nicely with "Hey Mister", written by Oldham/Penn; contemporary and simply produced. "Patterns" is a sweet ballad, slightly more richly arranged with strings and choir.
"A Place in the Sun" is a folkish pop song that could have been recorded by The Seekers. "The Last Day of Love" is quite a nice but also harmless pop song. More exciting is the Oldham/Penn song "I'm Your Puppet" - sweet and simple, but with unnecessary strings.
At times Posey reminds me of Patsy Cline, this goes for a song like "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which points more backwards towards the early 1960s than to the impending "youth rebellion" of the late 1960’s.
"Single Girl" was, like the breakthrough song "Born a Woman", written by Martha Sharp. It's a very nice and catchy song, which unsurprisingly became a new hit for her. Wayne Thompson, known for his hit songs written for the Boxtops, has written "Scattered" which is a somewhat ordinary bluesy ballad.
"See Ya on the Rebound", written by P.F. Sloan, is a nice more modern pop song; one of my favourites. More Patsy Cline pop comes with Hank Cochran's "Don't Touch Me".
Posey gives a nice version of Otis Redding's classic "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and ends the album beautifully with John D. Loudermilk's "The Twelfth of Never", which to me sounds like a rewriting of a British folk tune.
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