Sandie Shaw is an English recording artist who gained fame in the 60s with many popular singles in her native UK.  While she did have some success in North America, she is not considered part of the British Invasion because she never had a US Top 40 hit (though I would consider her because The British Invasion impacted Canada as well)

She is perhaps best known to North American audiences for the song (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, which would become a US and Canadian Top 10 hit for the British duo Naked Eyes in 1983.  In 1984, after more than a decade absence from the UK chart, she returned to the Top 40 with a cover of The Smiths song Hand in Glove that featured the members of The Smiths (sans Morrissey) as the backing band

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YEAR 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1966 1966 1966 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1969 1969 1984 1986 1986 1988 1994

TITLE (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Girl Don't Come I'll Stop at Nothing Long Live Love Message Understood How Can You Tell Tomorrow Nothing Comes Easy Run Think Sometimes About Me I Don't Need Anything Puppet on A String Tonight in Tokyo You've Not Changed TodayMonseiur Dupont Think it All Over Hand in Glove Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken? Frederick Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness Nothing Less than Brilliant

UK 1 3 4 1 6 21 9 14 32 32 50 1 21 18 27 642 27 68 9386 66

CAN 1 2 - 6 21 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

US 52 42 - 97 - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- -

I do remember reading somewhere (probably Wikopedia) that she had recorded an early version of “(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me”, and I think I heard it once on the SiriusXM channel 60s Gold. It was interesting to hear that rendition.

She was a regular on popular British TV programmes of the time such as Top of the Pops, Ready Steady Go! and Thank Your Lucky Stars. She was seen as epitomising the "swinging Sixties", and her trademark of performing barefoot endeared her to the public at large.

By 1967, her record sales were declining and her manager decided she should move more towards cabaret. She was invited by the BBC to represent the UK in that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. She had reservations as she felt it would destroy her credibility, but performed five songs on a then popular television show, with the public voting that the one that should represent the country was the Bill Martin/Phil Coulter composition "Puppet on a String". Although she disliked the song and thought it was unrepresentative of her material, the song won the contest by a near-record margin of votes, and made Shaw the first person to win the contest for the UK.

I am not familiar with her. I LOVE the song Frederick but I only know the Patty Smith version.


Cat

I am not familiar with her. I LOVE the song Frederick but I only know the Patty Smith version.


Cat

I'm familiar with The Naked Eyes version.