Sandy Posey

Artist: Sandy Posey

LP: Born a Woman

Song: "Born a Woman"
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Sandy Posey had a string of #12 hits in the 1960s, but never quite managed to launch anything into the top ten. "Born a Woman," in which she uses her sweet little voice to romanticize and rationalize the horrible treatment of women, was the first of Sandy's three singles to reach #12—this one in the summer of 1966. You can read about Sandy Posey's life and career here and the notes from the back of her debut LP are included below.

It is inconceivable that hazel-eyed beauty Sandy Posey was
born to suffer, or born to cry—or born to do anything other
than sing in her own exciting and inimitable way.

Not long after the born singer's birth 21 years ago in Jasper,
Alabama, relatives noticed Sandy singing almost before she
could talk...and by five, harmonizing to records she
heard on the radio.

But Jasper's music world was limited to church choirs and
a handful of jukeboxes scattered throughout town so Sandy's
career stood still until her late teens and she moved to West
Memphis, Arkansas. Just across the Mississippi River sits
Memphis, home town of many music business greats and
one of the top recording centers in the south.

Before long Sandy had been invited to attend a recording
session. One of the background singers failed to show up
and she was asked the last minute to "sit in." Literally
hundreds of record dates followed in Memphis and the
nearby recording centers of Nashville and Florence,
Alabama with Sandy doing vocal group work backing
up other singers. She worked with such names as
Bobby Goldsboro, Tommy Roe and Percy Sledge.

She was then discovered by independent record
producer Chips Moman and she did her first solo
recording "Born a Woman" for MGM Records.

This perfect mating of singer and song has taken
Sandy Posey to the top of the national best-selling
charts. Sandy Posey is an exciting artist who was
not only "Born a Woman" but born a star.
--Notes by H.H. Cowen