Chris Andrews

Though he is virtually unknown in the United States, Chris Andrews had a fair amount of success in the U.K. in the mid-'60s as both a performer and a songwriter for other acts. He might be best-known as the author of three British Top Ten hits for Sandie Shaw in 1965, "Girl Don't Come," "Long Live Love," and "Message Understood"; he wrote quite a bit of Shaw's other mid-'60s recordings as well. He also wrote Adam Faith's 1963 Top Ten hit "The First Time," and penned some pretty good Merseybeat-ish singles for Faith's backup group, the Roulettes, in 1963 and 1964. Though he'd ...