The Singles +

The Singles + Artist: Sonny & Cher
Label: Br Music Holland
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 8712089812420
ASIN: B0000549VV


Release Date: 2000-10-26

The Singles +


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Tracks:

  1. Letter - Sonny & Cher
  2. Baby Don't Go - Sonny & Cher
  3. Love Is Strange - Sonny & Cher
  4. Just You - Sonny & Cher
  5. Sing C'est la Vie - Sonny & Cher
  6. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
  7. All I Really Want to Do - Cher
  8. Laugh at Me - Sonny Bono
  9. But You're Mine - Sonny & Cher
  10. Where Do You Go? - Cher
  11. Revolution Kind - Sonny Bono
  12. What Now, My Love? - Sonny & Cher
  13. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Sonny & Cher
  14. Needles and Pins - Cher
  15. Have I Stayed Too Long - Sonny & Cher
  16. Alfie - Cher
  17. Little Man - Sonny & Cher
  18. Living for You - Sonny & Cher
  19. I Feel Something in the Air (Magic in the Air) - Cher
  20. Sunny - Cher
  21. Behind the Door - Cher
  22. Dream Baby - Cher
  23. Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies) - Cher
  24. Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher
  25. Beautiful Story - Sonny & Cher

Tracks:

  1. Plastic Man - Sonny & Cher
  2. It's the Little Things - Sonny & Cher
  3. Hey Joe - Cher
  4. You Better Sit Down Kids - Cher
  5. Good Combination - Sonny & Cher
  6. Click Song Number One - Cher
  7. Take Me for a Little While - Cher
  8. Thought of Loving You - Cher
  9. Classified 1-A - Cher
  10. Real People - Sonny & Cher
  11. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
  12. He'll Never Know - Cher
  13. All I Ever Need Is You - Sonny & Cher
  14. Way of Love - Sonny & Cher
  15. Cowboy's Work Is Never Done - Sonny & Cher
  16. Living in a House Divided - Cher
  17. When You Say Love - Sonny & Cher
  18. Don't Hide Your Love - Cher
  19. Mama Was a Rock & Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs - Sonny & Cher
  20. Am I Blue - Cher
  21. Greatest Show on Earth - Sonny & Cher
  22. Half-Breed - Cher
  23. Dark Lady - Cher
  24. Train of Thought - Cher
  25. I Saw a Man and He Danced With His Wife - Cher

Similar Items:

  1. All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher
  2. Cher/With Love, Cher
  3. Look at Us
  4. Cher and Sonny & Cher - Greatest Hits (1974)
  5. Dick Bartley Presents: Classic Oldies 1965-1969

Album Description

Dutch compilation featuring all their Billboard hits as well as a number of solo hits for Sonny and Cher. Tracks include, 'Baby Don't Go', 'Just You', 'I Got You Babe', 'All I Really Want To Do', 'Laugh At Me', 'But You're Mine', 'Where Do You Go', 'What Now My Love', 'Bang Bang', 'Alfie', 'Little Man', 'The Beat Goes On', 'You Better Sit Down Kids', 'Gypsy , Tramps And Thieves', 'All I Ever Need Is You', 'The Way Of Love', 'A Cowboys Work Is Never Done' and 'When You Say Love'. All original recordings.

Album Details

Superior Double Disc Retrospective of the Duo Singles of Sonny and Cher and Early Solo Singles from Cher Before She Broke Out on her Own. These Come from the Mid 1960's and the Early 1970's, the Heights of their Career.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sonny & Cher.......2007-02-24

What a classic. Fantastic songs it brought back a lot of memories when I was younger. I would definately recommend it.

4 out of 5 stars Sound quality not the greatest, but nice extensive tracks.......2005-10-29

I purchased this thing just for *Love Is Strange* and *The Letter* alone! I think their version of Love Is Strange is better than the original. I'm sure I'd be pelted by a million eggs from Cher's fans, but I honestly prefer her 60's singing voice to her warbling current voice. It's as if at some point in the early 70's, some idiot voice coach told her she should add that warbling infliction upon her voice....which to me, makes her sound as though she's not to be taken seriously. Her 60's voice was strong, yet smooth.
Whatever your view of Sonny Bono, he always did a great job arranging/producing/writing Cher's music (which is what he always intended to do until the shy and insecure Cher dragged him into the studio with her--if you don't think Sonny knew he had a pretty bad singing voice, you're sadly mistaken). *Bittersweet White Light* although sometimes a little over-dramatic (which Sonny tended to do---I think he was just so enthralled with Cher's singing he got carried away) is a fantastic album. This particular package is pretty extensive and full of most of their 60's hits and then some. With the exception of *Plastic Man* and *Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies---If I were Cher I'd of told Sonny where to stick that song), this is a very listenable and enjoyable collection. I'm still mesmerized by Sonny & Cher's harmonizing. I think they sounded fabulous together.

4 out of 5 stars Complete Sonny-era collection.......2003-05-11

While Cher moved on with her own musical career independent of Sonny, this collection covers the songs they had both collectively and independently until 1974 with Sonny no longer in the picture and Cher's musical career fading as well, at least temporarily. Dubbed "The Singles +", this piece does chronicle their single releases more completely than any piece heretofore and goes beyond just the U.S. 45's to include songs charting in six European countries as well. So, from the standpoint of completeness, this entry into the myriad of Sonny and Cher CD collections leads the pack. All the big and well-known sides are here along with rarities such as the pre-"Babe" era tunes "Love Is Strange" and "The Letter" as by Caesar and Cleo. As the songs are presented chronologically, the listener is aware of how the sound of Sonny and Cher developed with Cher maturing and growing while Sonny had nowhere to go musically. Though not sonically revelatory, with the exception of a noisy disc dub for track number three on disc one, sound quality is respectable overall. Most tunes are the stereo versions, the mono exceptions being tracks 1-5,11,15,18 on disc one and tracks 1,2,5,8,10 on disc two. The liner notes booklet does provide a condensed history of the duo that goes beyond the coverage of the tracks included. Beyond the track listings provided, of interest are the picture sleeve illustrations and comprehensive U.S. and European chart position data for each song. On balance, this is the best, most complete collection of Sonny and Cher's material. For the avid fan or casual listener, a most worthwhile CD investment.

5 out of 5 stars Very Thorough Collection From Holland.......2002-12-29

Singles + is a comprehensive review of Sonny & Cher's output from the beginning of their marriage/professional partnership until their divorce in 1974. Collectors of singles and chart hits like myself love compilations like these because *every* song that hit Billboard's Hot 100 by either Sonny & Cher or Cher as a solo artist through 1974 is included here. Granted, one must look elswhere to find Cher's solo outings after 1974, but I suppose the point of the set is to represent recordings during their years as a married couple. Arbitrary cutoff point, perhaps, but, oh well.

One point I'd like to clarify from Ward Lamb's otherwise excellent review below. He mentions a less than perfect sonic rating for this set. I'm not familiar with these ratings or standards, but to the extent one infers that the sound quality of this collection is substandard, never fear, the songs sound great. Perhaps not audiophile quality, but any casual listener will be more than satisfied.

5 out of 5 stars Ten years of classic pop.......2002-07-07

This collection contains all Cher's hits (with and without Sonny) from 1964 to 1974, not just from America but from six European countries. We therefore get Sing c'est la vie, which was number one in Belgium but didn't chart at all in any of the other listed countries (and maybe wasn't released anywhere else). However, in most cases, the European hits were also hits in America.

Apart from the excellent booklet, this collection combines the music of two different record labels, so you would otherwise have to buy two separate CD's, one for the sixties (I got you babe) era and one for the seventies (Gypsies tramps and thieves) era, and they many not be full-length. The two CD's that make up this set are both full-length, so there is plenty of room for the less obvious but still interesting tracks, ensuring that there is always something to keep coming back to.

This is a very comprehensive collection of the music which made Sonny and Cher stars in the first place, and contains everything that most people will ever want from the period covered. Diehard Cher fans will not be totally satisfied, but even they recognise the quality of this compilation (see their reviews).

Music Album:

  1. This Is Gracious ~ Gracious
  2. Hopeless Cases ~ Anne Clark
  3. New Miserable Experience ~ Gin Blossoms
  4. Blood Red Cherry ~ Jann Arden
  5. Life on the Bottom ~ The Halibuts
  6. Birdbrain ~ Buffalo Tom
  7. Eurovision ~ Various Artists
  8. Fearless ~ Francis Dunnery
  9. The Best of Al Stewart ~ Al Stewart
  10. Recorded Live ~ Ten Years After

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Head Hunters ~ Herbie Hancock

Yokohama Concert ~ J.J. Johnson

Leon Ware ~ Leon Ware

The Best of the Bird ~ Charlie Parker

And All Those Cats ~ Sahib Shihab

Kiss Jazz Style: Jazz City In Kobe ~ Various Artists

Questa È la Storia: Scende la Pioggia ~ Gianni Morandi

Vertigo

Amore Scusami ~ Dalida

Da Werden Morgenmuffel Zum Geniesser ~ Hornchen & Spass Kaffee