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The Sonny Side Of Chér

by Cher

The Sonny Side Of Chér is a 1966 pop album by Cher. It runs 12 tracks across 34 minutes on CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92). Riffiter listeners rate it 3.9/5 from 7 ratings.

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Pop · Folk · Folk Rock

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12
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34 min
Runtime
106 bpm
Tempo
C major
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The Sonny Side Of Chér album cover

The Sonny Side Of Chér album cover

The The Sonny Side Of Chér cover was photographed by Ken Kim and Robert W. Young and art-directed by Woody Woodward.

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Ken Kim, Robert W. Young
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Woody Woodward

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The Sonny Side of Chér is the second studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on February 1966 by Imperial. For her second album, Cher again collaborated with Sonny Bono and Harold Battiste. The album is by-and-large a covers album and contains two songs written by Bono. The title of the album is a pun on the name of Cher's first husband Bono. After its release, the album garnered positive reviews from critics. The album was Cher's second successful album of the sixties. After the success of her previous album "All I Really Want to Do", Cher quickly recorded another album. The Sonny Side of Chér was in the chart with the second studio album of Sonny & Cher, The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher. The album follows the same formula of the previous album with rearranged covers and new songs written by Bono. The Sonny Side of Chér was overall less successful than the previous release, but produced bigger hits than the first album did. It contains Cher's first solo Top Ten hit, the Bono-penned song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". With "Bang Bang", Cher was definitively settled in the American pop culture.

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The album also had two songs with French influence, "A Young Girl" and "Our Day Will Come" and Edith Piaf's famous "Milord". Like her previous album All I Really Want to Do, Cher covered one song written and performed by Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone". The album also included Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual", the popular song "Our Day Will Come" and "The Girl from Ipanema". Other covers are "A Young Girl" and "Ol' Man River" (which shows the huge vocal power Cher already had on this early album). The Sonny Side of Chér received mixed reviews from music critics. Tim Sendra of Allmusic gave two and a half stars for the album and compared it to the previous album, saying "Sonny Bono tinkers with the folk-rock formula that had made previous album such a delight and ruins everything, leaving the album as nothing more than a chuckle-inducing curiosity, just the kind of silly record casual listeners might expect from the duo." About the album said that "is doomed by its lack of heart and inability to rise above the formulaic." In 1992 the original album and Cher's debut studio album All I Really Want to Do were reissued by EMI on one CD which featured all tracks from both. After in 1995 EMI re-released this version together with the album Cher. The last version of the album was released in 2005 only in UK by BGO Records. The original The Sonny Side of Chér album in its entirety remains unreleased on compact disc. The Sonny Side of Chér, like Cher's previous album, was a success in the Billboard 200. The album entered into the chart while The Wondrous World of Sonny & Cher was also charting, eventually reaching up to #26. The album also entered in the UK Albums Chart and debuted at #28 in May, and reached its highest position (#11) three weeks later. The album remained in the chart for eleven weeks and exited in July. The Sonny Side of Chér was also Cher's last album that entered in the UK Albums chart until her 1987 comeback album Cher (released by Geffen). The Sonny Side of Chér also entered in the Norway albums chart and peaked at #17.

In brief

Is The Sonny Side Of Chér good?
Riffiter listeners rate The Sonny Side Of Chér 3.9/5 from 7 ratings.
When was The Sonny Side Of Chér released?
The Sonny Side Of Chér was released in 1966 on CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92).
How many tracks are on The Sonny Side Of Chér?
The Sonny Side Of Chér has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 34 minutes.
What genre is The Sonny Side Of Chér?
The Sonny Side Of Chér is catalogued under Pop, Folk, Folk Rock.
What BPM is The Sonny Side Of Chér?
The Sonny Side Of Chér runs at a median tempo of 106 BPM across its tracks, most often in C major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to The Sonny Side Of Chér?
Listeners of The Sonny Side Of Chér also rate Look at Us by Sonny & Cher, Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna, In Case You're in Love by Sonny & Cher.
Who produced The Sonny Side Of Chér?
Sonny Bono produced 1 of the 12 tracks on The Sonny Side Of Chér.
Who wrote the songs on The Sonny Side Of Chér?
Sonny Bono wrote 1 of the 12 tracks on The Sonny Side Of Chér.

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Sonny Bono
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Sonny Bono

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