Sonny & Cher Live is the first live album by American pop duo Sonny & Cher, released in 1971 by Kapp/MCA Records. The album reached #35 on the Billboard chart and was certified Gold for the sales of 500,000 copies.
Album information In 1971, the couple returned to the charts with the album "Sonny & Cher Live", on the label Kapp Records in the US and MCA Records in the UK. The album is largely a collection of cover songs including "More Today Than Yesterday" (originally by The Spiral Starecase) and "Danny Boy". This album also contained three songs by The Beatles: "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Hey Jude", and "Something".
One single was issued from this album, that being "I Got You Babe", backed with an edited version of "Danny Boy". The song "Laugh at Me" was performed by Bono as solo while "Danny Boy" and "Once in a Lifetime" (after which Sonny can be heard saying approvingly "Not bad, not bad") were performed only by Cher. A portion of this album was re-released on the Cher and Sonny & Cher Kapp/MCA Anthology All I Ever Need, and on the 1990 compilation album All I Ever Need Is You.
Track listing Side A "What Now My Love" (Carl Sigman, Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë) - 2:52 "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) - 9:00 "Once in a Lifetime" (from "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off")(Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) - 2:08 "More Today Than Yesterday" (Pat Upton) - 2:32 "Got to Get You into My Life" (Lennon–McCartney) - 1:25 "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" (Jimmie Hodges) - 4:00
Side B "Danny Boy" (Frederic Weatherly) - 5:53 "Laugh at Me" (Sonny Bono) - 2:46 "Something" (George Harrison) - 4:00 "Hey Jude" (Lennon–McCartney) - 7:30 "I Got You Babe" (Sonny Bono) - 3:26
Note the running time of the album (55:30) exceeds the length listed for the individual tracks (45:31), due to banter between the songs.
Charts
Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance for Sonny & Cher LiveChart (1971)PeakpositionCanadian Albums Chart43US Billboard 20035US Cash Box Top 100 Albums40US Record World Top 100 LP's 34
Year-end charts +Year-end chart performance for Sonny & Cher LiveChart (1972)PositionUS Billboard 20090
Certifications and sales
Personnel Cher - vocals Sonny Bono - vocals Mike Rubini - piano Al Pellegrini - orchestra conductor Dean Parks (credited as Dean Parker) - guitar Matt Betton - drums Bert Fanette - organ David Hungate - bass guitar Dahrell Norris - percussion
Production Denis Pregnolato - producer Angel Balestier - engineer Nye Morton - assistant engineer
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