Released in April 1966 by Pye Records on their budget Golden Guinea label, it contains all of the "A" sides and "B" sides of all her UK chart singles from 1964 to the end of 1965, which was technically all of her singles apart from her first which had failed to make an impression on the chart.

The only song not written by him is the opener of side one - Shaw's breakthrough single "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," which is by American songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

The song had originally been a minor hit in the US for Lou Johnson and was discovered by Shaw's manager, Eve Taylor, on a song-hunting trip to America.

[2] Shaw's other number one single by this point, "Long Live Love",[2] is the second track on The Golden Hits and is followed by the "B" sides to "Always Something There To Remind Me" and "Long Live Love" - a ballad entitled "Don't You Know" and the slightly more upbeat "I've Heard About Him."

[2] Side two begins with the upbeat "How Can You Tell" - her first single since her breakthrough not to make the Top 10 (it peaked at number 21).