Sandie Shaw, the “Barefoot Pop Princess,” had three UK number one hits, “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” (1964), “Long Live Love” (1965), and “Puppet On a String” (1967), as well as several other charting singles from the 1960s through the 1990s. Her version of “Your Time Is Gonna Come” from the album Reviewing the Situation (1969) was the first-ever Led Zeppelin cover. She was the first-ever British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, when “Puppet On a String” topped the UK charts made her the first British female singer ever to have three number one records (Express.co.uk).
“Wight is Wight” was a French-language hit (1969), written and performed by Michel Delpech. The song title alludes to the Isle of Wight music festival, and makes a sly reference to “Black Is Black,” the 1966 hit by the Spanish beat group Los Bravos.
Sandie Shaw sang the song with its original lyrics and, using the same backing track, the English-language version here was released as a single in 1970, and included as a bonus track on a CD reissue of Reviewing the Situation. We’re unable to find the source of the English lyrics; they may well have been written by Sandie Shaw. Shaw’s tightly-controlled vibrato is on full display here. A whole-step bump awaits at 2:08.
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