Sandie Shaw - There's Always Something There To Remind Me (1964)

[codirenzileonardo1]

VIDEO BRUTTISSIMO.

[MST3KITH]

This is the first time I've heard the original. Maybe I'm biased from nostalgia, but I prefer the Naked Eyes version. I hear this and I just miss the wedding bells refrain from their version.

[mochanbach]

she was not a one hit wonder moron

[mpw180]

what gets me is that stars of the 60's, 70' or 80's they have one big hit and they're sorted for life. but the stars of the 90's and today, some of them are nowt but one hit wonders, and they're gone without anyone taking any notice

[mochanbach]

@mpw180 if ya good ya good if ya crap go on x factor

[tech4156]

back when they could sing live.

[MrStoneyburke]

saw sandy in olympia ballroom waterford in 60ties she was great

[RoadkilIerCop]

Gorgeous girl

[maparodes]

Canzone bellissima...Burt Bacharach grande...

[tank3ful]

Singers like Sandie Shaw and Dusty Springfield were the real deal. They may have recorded American R&B, but in many cases were better than the originals. No one can deny Dusty was England's answer to Aretha Franklin back in the day. Anyway, Sandie was a fine singer, and still is, and it is worth grabbing one of her best of CD collections. Amy Winehouse and Adele vs Sandie & Dusty? No contest, the 60's diva's win hands down.

[Alikah1]

Gotta prefer RB Greaves' version.

[jonboy196401]

this was a number 1 in the year i was born 1964

[sp4eva1]

didn't know this was so old of a song!

[RaidersRawesom15]

She sounds kinda like a robot at the "Always something there to remind me part" like it was some japanese techno just shout it out with no emotion? Am I the only one who hears that, I know this song because of Naked Eyes I'm glad they changed it up from this and brought emotion to it.

[860anthony]

what fantastic footage. she is an incredible singer that I had never heard until now. thank you.

[phdubald]

in french it was eddy mitchell who sang "il y a toujours un coin qui me rappelle"

[skipper8257]

Beautiful girl with a great voice. Always love Sandie so I had to marry a Sandy.

[MrAndywbell]

the great sandie shaw wat a british star she is long live sandie x

[12347771]

Body language Sandie......worth a thousand words......how I wish I could have known you.

[pfenix14]

Dionne Warwick also did a (similar) version of the song.

[bartlettohio]

3 months before this was a hit, she was an office worker in a Ford plant in Dagenham, England...she had never performed in public...she went back stage at an Adam Faith show and introduced herself to the band, asking for a break...the rest is history.

[motowngirl65]

Naked Eye did a horrible job of a great song. I'm so glad I found , this - the original hit that I remember.

[TheMoonchildiva]

she's fabulous, i never forgot her rendition of this tune !

[ozph08]

she has an amazing voice but she looks terrified, or on drugs, or both, but look at her eyes?

[firestartertwistedfi]

@ozph08 It's called acting I believe

[PurpleHoneyBear]

To see a song like this be taken and refined is pretty common, but Naked Eyes did this more justice than I could imagine anyone doing. They took a classic pop lyric and adapted it the 80's music scene perfectly.

Kudos to her for singing it first!

[crapple009]

So this is where Chrissie Hynde copped from!

[MrWilliamtom]

Just an observation--In every performace here on Youtube she seems to be looking upwards towards the ceiling.

[Porkcfish]

@MrWilliamtom I think it is because she was just a child when she became famous and was probably without direction. Remember, this was 1964 and Swinging London was just beginning. However, this was not a media-driven fad. England was finally recovering from the war, The Beatles had hit, James Bond was huge... it was the beginning of their short-lived moment in the sun before Thatcher came in and fixed everything. Sandie Shaw as a girl who represented the Carnaby Explosion.

[Sundaysmilk]

@MrWilliamtom Those lights are probably bright as fuck.

[MARMALADEMARMOSET]

cute

[badboybaldy1]

so true the words ...ones we have lost bless beautiful lady ...

[vevejay]

I love all the sixties stars,models,designers,compose­rs and musicians they led the way,unfortunately it as come to a dead end.

[thanksyounow]

Day was a great starring singer.

[beccita]

I wonder if Chrissie Hynde borrowed some of her look a little bit....

[drwhatson]

@guppyparts Well that's my point. Like the rest of them, she stopped ripping off R&B songs once her career was underway and it was safe to do so, and was left floundering in medicre pop songs. No doubt these singers admired the US artists whose songs they copied, but a little more humility (and credit) would have been nice.

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson That's the fault of the management. She's only 17 here. By the time she reaches 19 she's been led off reluctantly into the cabaret stuff.. Who knows what opportunity she had to record what she wanted to record, and how she wanted to record it ... Maybe none.

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz You may have a point, like I said I was a "fan" - but I WAS only ten years old at the time and she/they were sexy girl singers! ;-) Paradoxically, the universal success of "Puppet On A Chain" was maybe her downfall. I really don't know, as I'd discovered Brenda Holloway, Aretha Franklin etc. that time.

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Brenda Holloway... she sounds alot like the Supremes ... who are pop-influenced would you say..

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz Hardly, Brenda Holloway was one of the most Soulful singers on Motown! "Every Little Bit Hurts".

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Ever heard Les Surfs? One of my favorites..

[guppypartz]

@guppypartz The video on here of Les Surfs with the masks and the snow falling I may have watched 100 times. :)

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz France's answer to the Five Stairsteps?? :-)

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Maybe! .. They're from Madagascar ... they won a talent contest and a trip to Paris.

[rex4x4]

omg ...... i diddnt know about this .

i always thought the 80s version was the original ... oops :-)

[seanmwh]

GOOD DAGENHAM GIRL! X

[roe5745]

I love 60's music, but this is seriously one of the worst songs ive ever heard!

[NTOUATI]

sobre et efficace mais un peu rayer au niveau du texte

[drwhatson]

I liked Sandy Shaw (and Cilla Black etc.) - until I heard the Dionne Warwick originals. She made them sound like the tuneless amateurs they were.

[eddietheturdburglar]

@drwhatson Dionne had every single Wrote for her By Burt Bacharach and Hal David,shes nothing without those .

[drwhatson]

@eddietheturdburglar Oh really? You obviously haven't heard her Warner Bros. LP "Just Being Myself" from 1973. Her best in my opinion. Besides, Burt Bacharach can't sing to save his life, so is he therefore "nothing without Dionne Warwick" or someone similar?

Most Black American singers ran rings around any UK singer you care to mention, then and now. Fact.

[eddietheturdburglar]

@drwhatson Why do you Americans always have toTry and Bigger And Think Better,Is it some sort of EGO Trip you like taking.Now Wind Your Gregory In.Music is to be listened to and appreciated,Anyway My Dads bigger than your Dad.Burt was an American pianist, composer and music producer who wrote 70 Top 40 hits in the US, and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.Enough said...............

[drwhatson]

@eddietheturdburglar er, I'm actually BRITISH as it happens, but I know a good singer when I hear one. As a child I grew up listening to UK singers' endless copies of original Black American music (Sandi Shaw, Cilla Black, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Manfred Mann, Moody Blues, Hermann's Hermits and countless others) and felt severely cheated when I finally heard the far superior originals some years later. I've spent the last 40 years catching up.

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Far superior? Based on what? If you want me to take you seriously, you have to begin justifying your opinions with evidence of some kind rather than just acting like you know better..

Have a nice day..

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz Well I DO know better, evidently. Take a listen to the original versions of any of the numerous R&B songs covered by milksop UK pop acts. (Perhaps you're still not aware of exactly how MANY UK 60s hits were actually cover versions, with even the phrasing copied wholesale - but not the quality!) If you still can't tell the difference, you must either be tone-deaf or some kind of rabid anti-American xenophobe.

"The originals are still the greatest" (Dobie Gray) Fact.

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Again, you don't explain why they are better! Just declarations. Declarations and insults--which don't make you look as sophisticated as you think you are, quite frankly. Quite the contrary. Can you analyze songs technically? Have you studied singing? Do you play an instrument at a high level like me? Etc.. Good luck.!

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz "Explain"??? er, try listening to them! "Those that have ears to hear, let them hear" - let the rest follow second-rate UK copyists to their heart's content. "It's what's in the grooves that counts" (Berry Gordy)

Many UK acts aspired to sing like the American originators en-masse. Just read their history and interviews, or put down whatever instrument you "play at high level" and get some SOUL, then you'd know.

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Just because someone sang it first doesn't mean it's the best version. Even if they wrote it. Anyway, I'm tiring of this silly discussion. What does it matter to me if you think this? I'm moving on...

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz Good, since you have evidently misinterpreted every word I've written so far! It's nothing to do with simply "who did it first" and all to do with who did it BEST. (ie. Aretha's version of "I Say A Little Prayer" beats the Dionne Warwick original for soulful delivery) And the aforementioned US artists definitely did it better than their UK copyists. (Another "fact" for your diary!) So move on and prosper with my blessing(!), and hopefully listen to some better music along the way...

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Unfortunately I can't leave without commenting on this. More soulful delivery ... now what does that mean? Another unquantifiable parameter. I don't necessarily disagree with your general premise, although I object to your lack of tact in expressing it earlier.

Every singer brings something of themselves to a song. Dionne Warwick doesn't much interest me. Too slick. I like rough edges ... it's more real (which is why I like this version)

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz As the song was written by Bacharach & David, it's bound to be mellow. That's their style. However, whatever the production values Dionne Warwick could sing with real Soul when she wanted to, (though her sister Dee Dee was the real Soul singer in the family). I agree that 'Soul' (has an) "unquantifiable parameter" - many have tried to define it - but Soul CAN be heard, and the difference between pop (Sandy et.al.) and (say) Aretha Franklin or Betty Lavette is plain enough surely?

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson Well I'm not sure where we are at here .. do you find fault with this version of the song? Or is this simply not to your taste. Or you are not discussing this song in particular, but some other cover. I'll say one thing, her later shift into cabaret songs makes me cringe. As I understand it, she did it reluctantly, to revive her career, but feared it would cause her to lose credibility.. I think she should have gone into grittier stuff..

[drwhatson]

@guppypartz "I liked Sandy Shaw (and Cilla Black etc.) - until I heard the (US) originals..."

Cilla Black copied Dionne Warwick's recording of "Anyone Who Had A Heart" almost note for note, thus kick-starting her own meagre pop career. She was far from alone in this activity. Meanwhile, we were deprived of hearing the original and far superior versions when new, due to the the widespread BBC policy of "favouring UK acts and recordings". What else can I say?

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson I see ... well, Cilla Black didn't make any impression on me, maybe that's why. All I can say is I like this video and wish Shaw pursued more this style, take, whatever you want to call it, into more gritty stuff. It's a mellow song, ya, but she gives it kind of a beat generation quality (flute instead of bongos). At least that's what I'm hearing in it. But her career stalled and she was led off into a whole different direction which is of little interest to me..

[guppypartz]

@drwhatson How is it a fact? From the scientific method? If you want to believe you have better taste than anyone else in music, whatever. I suppose it makes you feel worth something. But it's all in your head! There's no proving any of it. It remains your opinion and nothing else.

[raincoatriver]

@drwhatson I hope that you've heard the Lou Johnson version.

[drwhatson]

@raincoatriver Yes thanks. I suppose you also know that contrary to popular belief Dionne Warwick recorded the original demo of the song, before the Lou Johnson release (apparently).

[raincoatriver]

@drwhatson Yes, I've read that. Her version must have been well hidden, since I didn't hear it until years later. Lou actually got on the Billboard charts ahead of Sandie. Maybe the Dionne demo was held back, because I remember reading that Burt wanted a black male to sing the song and used Lou.

[xToxicTurtlex]

real voices...real songs...not that utter crap that we are bombarded with every day now...she's great!!!

[zappatx]

If you like this, you will like the 60's Czech versions. Look up Marta Kubisova and prepare to be amazed!

[goldbugnz]

love the folded arms. Sandie rocks!

[Brighteyes1ful]

She wins awards for drama in that one then?.

[MRMILO57]

Sandy should cheer up.

[BuhBuhKitty]

When she said Remind me, it sounded a little flat

Still thats some badass quality

[giacchinyc]

always something there 2 remind me

[bvb7589]

Sandie was a very insecure person. Contrary to what many people believe, she had a very low self image of herself. She actually called herself "Ugly dock"........Just like Linda Rondstad....They were actually frighten at the stage; it took many years of experience before they kind of felt confortable with their self image.....

[1bridlington]

Takes you back to the good pld days.

[FoxenBPerry]

this is an intresting video, very different from the 80's one XD

[FoxtrotXray5]

Before immigrating to the USA in the winter of 65 my sister sure loved this song and gave me a gift of a 35. I still have that copy.

[guppypartz]

One other thing, she forget to include another verse? Or had to wind it up? Kinda odd the way she sings the same line 5 times at the end..

[guppypartz]

The quality makes her look punk,really. I like it. Gives an edge to it. (kinda shortened though... there's another version on here goes longer, but without the same edgy quality)

[kiribula]

@guppypartz Nothing punk

[neonmoon82]

The quality of this video makes her look strange. Whatch nyrainbow2's oter video of her to get a better idea of what she really looked like at that time. Also Kleopatra 1960's videos shows what a real beauty she is. BTW, thanks for posting

[Tardbot5000]

Is she cold?

[spyrusthedeathless]

As a child of the 80's, I always assumed the Naked Eyes cover was the original. I had no idea it was 20 years old even then!

[Komet67]

I'm a shame to admit I am not familiar with Sandie Shaw. Nice voice.

[avakaterina]

This gives me the goose bumps. SO perfect.

[SharkSport]

she looks like she has some great facial structure under that helmet of hair.

[9nickynoo]

Classic I'm 29 and I love this.They dont make them like this any more as my dad would say, lol

[2008dada]

she is stoned right out of her loving gourd, fabulous, simply fabulous

[TheAnn2shoes]

@2008dada She's not, she really needed to wear glasses and she didn't - hence the squint.  She was never known to be a drug taker.

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

Sandy Shaw isn't the original of this song! Dionne Warwick made the 1st demo in '63 but it was a minor hit for Lou Johnson b4 Sandy. She looks weird in this video, as if she's in a straight jacket & at some angles her eyes seems very big! Looks as if she's walked on the stage straight from the street & can't be arsed!

[TheAnn2shoes]

@DavidJHarrisonEssex The quality of the video isn't that good but I can explain why she looks like she does in it. She was a real 'mod' person and it was the fashion to stand like that (believe it or not) and it was also the fashion to look as if you 'couldn't be arsed'!

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

@TheAnn2shoes Thanks for that. I have to correct myself as 1 website said Dionne had the original, it was Lou Johnson but like a lot of the songs he released they didn't chart well & others had major hits with the songs he recorded. Wonder how many others know what 'couldn't be arsed' means if from outside the U.K, I checked 2 c & u are from the U.K so you'd know but I'm sure others can work it out if they haven't heard that expression b4

[TheAnn2shoes]

@DavidJHarrisonEssex We have some great expressions, don't we? I am too polite to list some of them here!

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

@TheAnn2shoes Yeah, we do & many of them! Perhaps when I have reason I will use more. Mind u, if u were 2 polite u wouldn't have repeated the 1 I used!

[TheAnn2shoes]

@DavidJHarrisonEssex :) You are right - but 'can't be arsed' is kind of harmless, isn't it?

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

@TheAnn2shoes Yeah, there's far, far worse!

[ihatetrash2007]

whats she doing now ?

[shealways]

whats not to like about that voice..fabulous

[mastertusk]

whose sheryl coal?

[olapanekala]

there is allways something there to remind me...........kardoula mou;-(((((

[bingbong35]

Just beautiful! I like everyone's version from Dionne Warwick to Naked Eyes and to the original Lou Johnson. Everyone made it their own song with their unique, individual interpretations. Thanx.

[oneoriginalthought]

Love Sandie Shaw. Thank you for posting this.

[83Brokenwings]

Sandie was the 60s Cheryl Cole, so cute :))

[marlanmcdonald]

The greatest female vocalist of the 20th century period

[arita2006]

@marlanmcdonald

The second greatest - Dusty Springfield was the greatest...

[zonty13]

Sandie had more class and was far more beautiful than Dusty!

I love them both by the way.

[BlackMonk66]

In the sixties, Sandie was a girl and Dusty was a woman, which isn't to say that Sandie didn't make some fine records then. To give Sandie her due, she moved into the 80s a lot more gracefully. She sounded like she was trying to find her place in then-contemporary music, whereas Dusty could sound lost in the way music changed. Though she also made some great records.

[crapple009]

@zonty13 True, but where does Cilla stand? ;-)

[lelboy]

@zonty13 Nah, not really - and I love them both too, by the way!

[lelboy]

@zonty13 Nah, not really - and I love them both too, by the way!

[zonty13]

The greatest compliment you can make to my idol !!!

[IAmTheElf]

I fell in love with the beautiful, wondeerful, fabulous, sexy Sandie Shaw the first time I saw her and I've been in love with her e versince!

[MarcelaLSD]

incrível!

adoro a voz dela.

[elrichard100]

She its drug????

[Babyhowdy233]

No. Sandie suffered for years from severe stage fright. As a result, her face at times would look a bit "frozen". She NEVER has done drugs.

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

Burt B. always chose singers with exceptionally beautiful voices to sing his songs. She sings like an angel.

[elrichard100]

Estaba drogada? se ve rara...

[taddyd1]

Sandy's compelling but the arrangement is horrid and band didn't seem to be aware that she was even in the same room. Souxsie look like her.

[triggerpepsi]

danm she was fit !!! Id leave alot for her to be reminded of me lol

[Babyhowdy233]

Well, she was "fit" if you like women who are VERY THIN and flat-chested. Sandie got no curvaceousness to her figure at all until her forties. IMHO she remains one of the FINEST singers the UK has ever produced!

[greenheather]

I like her voice, it's haunting! I find she has a foreign lilt in her accent oddly enough...

[zonty13]

That's why she was huge in other countries-a thousand times bigger than in Britain.She's an icon ;love this woman!!!!

[zonty13]

she does have a funny way of pronouncing "anymore" I must admit -but she's 100% English ... from Dagenham how more londoner can one get?The image on this video is weired ,not very clear thus giving her an oddd look-have a browse at the other clips you'll see she's to die for!

[DavidJHarrisonEssex]

@zonty13 Dagenhan is just outside london in Essex, I live in Romford, next to Dagenham so u can get 'more London than that'. Don't know what the area was like when she was young but Dagenhams a shit hole now!

[eRealist]

This sucks dick.

[potaluca]

Oh...you must be talking about your mouth on a page for a Sandi Shaw song...at least we all know now!

[Babyhowdy233]

Sandie had a VERY distinct, unusual voice. Either you love her voice or hate it;no in-between,lol!

[zonty13]

Simon Cowel would say "marmite" :the vegetable spread.

[fodah]

@Babyhowdy233 dude, she sounds like a combo of nico and dusty springfield... killer voice

[TractorBoy50]

The first girl I ever loved. Sandie Shaw a Princess

[zonty13]

Yes , you gave her the right title: a Princess!!!

[MRwonderman1]

Pity about the quality of this version, other than that it's really groovy!

Thanks or uploading!

[supacobs]

love sandi check out her in her smiths numbers shes a goddess

[CJMILLER416]

This is beautiful and haunting--pure music and he sound and voice of the 60s. It was what it was--and nothing can beat it.

[sonofkloot]

She`s as beautiful now as she`s ever been,and one of the best female singers ever.

[corvus13]

Dionne's and Naked Eyes's versions are more melodious.

[moorlock2003]

A ridiculous statement. Sandie Shaw's melodious version was the best and the most popular, staying at No. 1 in the UK for 3 weeks.

[corvus13]

I have as much right to my opinion as you do.

[moorlock2003]

The chart success of Sandie Shaw's version speaks for itself.

[DunhillHilton]

Sandie was the greatest.

[CrankCase08]

Yeah right