Vinyl records

Evie Sands vinyl records

3 albums with 34 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Singer Evie Sands endured one of the more remarkable hard luck tales in pop music lore -- time after time, her records seemed poised for chart success, only to fall prey to industry deception. The Brooklyn-born Sands' husky, soulful voice first attracted the attention of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Blue Cat label in 1965, and upon signing with the company she entered the studio with the songwriting/production team of Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni to record her debut single, "Take Me for a Little While." Prior to the record's release, a test pressing was smuggled to executives at Chess Records, where Chicago soul singer Jackie Ross immediately cut her own version of the song; just as Sands'…