Cher's Musical History 1964 - 1969

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1964
Various backup vocals for different artists on records produced by Phil Spector,
including "Be My Baby" and "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"

1965

"Baby Don't Go"
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

Baby Don't Go
Love Is Strange
When
I Surrender
Walkin' The Quetzal
Leavin' town

Do You Want To Dance
La La La La La
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
Two Hearts
Wo Yeah
Let The Good Times Roll

"Look At Us"
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

I Got You Babe (Bono)
Unchained Melody (North/Zaret)
Then He Kissed Me (Spector/Greenwich/Barry)
Sing C'est La Vie (Bono/Greene/Stone)
It's Gonna Rain (Bono)
500 Miles (West)

Just You (Bono)
The Letter (Harris/Terry)
Let It Be Me (Curtis/Becaud)
You Don't Love Me (Raye)
You've Really Got A Hold On Me (Robinson)
Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love (Spector/Greenwich/Barry)

Sundazed CD reissue features bonus tracks: It's The Little Things (Bono), Don't Talk To Strangers (Bono), Hello (Bono)

"All I Really Want To Do"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono

All I Really Want To Do (Dylan)
I Go To Sleep (Davies)
Needles And Pins (Bono/Nitzsche)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Dylan)
She Thinks I Still Care (Lipscomb)
Dream Baby (Bono)

The Bells Of Rhymney (Seeger/Davies)
Girl Don't Come (Andrews)
See See Rider (Bono/Greene/Stone)
Come And Stay With Me (DeShannon)
Cry Myself To Sleep (Gordon)
Blowin' In The Wind (Dylan)

1965 Singles: "Ringo I Love You" Bonnie Jo Mason (Sceptor), "Dream Baby" Cherilyn (Imperial), "Do You Wanna Dance" Caesar and Cleo (Reprise), "Love Is Strange" Caesar and Cleo (Reprise), "Let The Good Times Roll" Caesar and Cleo (Reprise), "Baby Don't Go" (Reprise), "The Letter" (Vault), "Just You"/"Sing C'est La Vie", "All I Really Want To Do", "Where Do You Go?" , "I Got You Babe", "Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love", "But You're Mine"

1966

"The Sonny Side Of Ch�r"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Bono)
A Young Girl (Une Enfante) (Aznavour/Chauvigny/Brown)
Where Do You Go (Bono)
Our Day Will Come (Hilliard/Garson)
Elusive Butterfly (Lind)
Like A Rolling Stone (Dylan)

Ol' Man River (Kern/Hammerstein II)
Come To Your Window (Lind)
The Girl From Impanema (Jobin/Gimbel/DeMoraes)
It's Not Unusual (Mills/Reed)
Time (Merchant)
Milord (Moustaki/Lewis/Monnot)

Soundtrack to the motion picture "Alfie", on which Cher sings the title song.

"The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher"
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

Summertime (Heyward/Gershwin)
Tell Him (Russell)
I'm Leaving It All Up To You (Harris/Terry)
But You're Mine (Bono)
Bring It On Home To Me (Cooke)
Set Me Free (Davies)

What Now My Love (Sigman/Becaud/Delanoe)
Leave Me Be (White)
I Look For You (Bono)
Laugh At Me (Bono)
Turn Around (Reynolds/Greene/Belafonte)
So Fine (Gribblet)

Sundazed CD reissue features bonus tracks: The Revolution Kind, Have I Stayed Too Long, Crying Time

1966 Singles: "Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", "Alfie", "Behind The Door", "Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)", "What Now My Love", "Have I Stayed Too Long"/"Leave Me Be", "Little Man", "Living For You", "Laugh At Me"

1967

"Ch�r"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono

Sunny (Bono)
Twelfth Of Never (Livingston/Webster)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Pallavicini/Wickham/Napier/Bell/Donaggio)
I Feel Something In The Air (Bono)
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Goffin/King)
Until It's Time For You To Go (Sainte Marie)

Cruel War (Yarrow/Stookey)
Catch The Wind (Donovan)
Pied Piper (Kornfeld/Duboff)
Homeward Bound (Simon)
I Want You (Dylan)
Alfie (Bacharach/David)

"In Case You're In Love"
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

The Beat Goes On (Bono)
Groovy Kind Of Love (Wine/Bayer)
You Baby (Spector)
Monday (Bono)
Love Don't Come (Bono)
Podunk (Bono)

Little Man (Bono)
We'll Sing In The Sunshine (Garnett)
Misty Roses (Hardin)
Stand By Me (King/Glick)
Living For You (Bono)
Cheryl's Goin' Home (Lind)

Sundazed CD reissue features bonus tracks: A Beautiful Story, Good Combination, Plastic Man

"Good Times" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

I Got You Babe (Opening Scene; Instrumental) (Bono)
It's The Little Things (Bono)
Good Times (Bono)
Trust Me (Bono)

Don't Talk To Strangers (Bono)
I'm Gonna Love You (Bono)
Just A Name (Bono)
I Got You Babe (Bono)

CD reissued by One Way records

"The Best Of Sonny & Ch�r"
Atco

Produced by Sonny Bono

The Beat Goes On (Bono)
What Now My Love (Sigman/Becaud/Delanoe)
I Got You Babe (Bono)
Little Man (Bono)
Just You (Bono)
Let It Be Me (Curtis/Becaud)

A Beautiful Story (Bono)
It's The Little Things (Bono)
But You're Mine (Bono)
Sing C'est La Vie (Bono/Greene/Stone)
Laugh At Me (Bono)
Living For You (Bono)

1967 Singles: "Hey Joe", "You'd Better Sit Down Kids", "The Beat Goes On", "A Beautiful Story", "Plastic Man", "It's The Little Things", Don't Talk To Strangers", "Good Combination"/"You and Me", "Ma Piano (Per Non Svegliarmi)"/"Nel Mio Ceilo Ci Sei Tu" - Cher's entry for the 1967 San Remo song contest

1968

"With Love"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono

You Better Sit Down Kids (Bono)
But I Can't Love You More (Bono
Hey Joe (Roberts)
Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies) (Bono)
Behind The Door (Gouldman)

Sing For Your Supper (Rodgers/Hart)
Look At Me (Allison)
There But For Fortune (Ochs)
I Will Wait For You (Gimbel/LeGrand)
The Times They Are A-Changin' (Dylan)

"Backstage"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono, Harold R. Battiste Jr. and Denis Pregnolato

Go Now (Bennet/Banks)
Carnival (Perette/Creatore/Weiss/Maria/Bonfa/DeArozamena)
It All Adds Up To Now (Sham)
Reason To Believe (Hardin)
Masters Of War (Dylan)
Do You Believe In Magic (Sebastian)

I Wasn't Ready (Creaux/Hill)
A House Is Not A Home (Bacharach/David)
Take Me For A Little While (Martin)
The Impossible Dream (Dorion/Leigh)
The Click Song (Makeba)
A Song Called Children (West)

"Ch�r's Golden Greats"
Imperial

Produced by Sonny Bono

You Better Sit Down Kids (Bono)
Sunny (Bono)
Come And Stay With Me (DeShannon)
Alfie (Bacharach/David)
Take Me For A Little While (Martin)
All I Really Want To Do (Dylan)

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Bono)
Needles And Pins (Bono/Nitzsche)
Dream Baby (Bono)
Elusive Butterfly (Lind)
Where Do You Go (Bono)
Hey Joe (Roberts)

"Sonny & Ch�r's Greatest Hits"
Atco

Produced by Denis Pregnolato

The Beat Goes On
Let It Be Me
What Now My Love
It's Gonna Rain
Living For You

I Got You Babe
Monday
Just You
Laugh at Me
Love Don't Come

Little Man
A Beautiful Story
Sing C'est La Vie
I Look For You
So Fine

It's The Little Things
But You're Mine
Podunk
Don't Talk to Strangers
Plastic Man

1968 Singles: "The Click Song", "Take Me For A Little While"

1969

"Chastity" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Atco

"3614 Jackson Highway"
Atco

Produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin

For What It's Worth (Stills)
(Just Enough To Keep Me) Hangin' On (Mize/Allen)
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Redding/Cropper)
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Dylan)
I Threw It All Away (Dylan)
I Walk On Guilded Splinters (Creaux)

Lay Baby Lay (Dylan)
Please Don't Tell Me (Smith/Quillen)
Cry Like A Baby (Pennington/Oldham)
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Penn)
Save The Children (Hinton)

To be reissued by Rhino Handmade in January 2001
To pre-order, follow this link

1969 Singles: "Chastity's Song", "For What It's Worth", "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"

Guest vocalist on "Tell Me" by MajicShip.

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