Singles + [Import]

Sonny & Cher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1964
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B0000DENT6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,702,640 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Letter

2. Baby Don't Go

3. Love Is Strange

4. Just You

5. Sing C'est la Vie

6. I Got You Babe

7. All I Really Want to Do

8. Laugh at Me

9. But You're Mine

10. Where Do You Go?

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Plastic Man

2. It's the Little Things

3. Hey Joe

4. You Better Sit Down Kids

5. Good Combination

6. Click Song Number One

7. Take Me for a Little While

8. Thought of Loving You

9. Classified 1-A

10. Real People

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Editorial Reviews

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 DoYou 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. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete Sonny-era collection, May 10, 2003

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singles + (Audio CD)

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 at which point Sonny was no longer in the picture and Cher's musical career was 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 worthwhile CD investment.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Thorough Collection From Holland, December 28, 2002

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"prymel" (Anaheim, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Singles + (Audio CD)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like the title says, it's the singles!, January 18, 2001

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Allen Chapman (STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singles + (Audio CD)

I belive this is the first Sonny & Cher collection to combine the "I Got You Babe" era and the "Sonny & Cher" Tv show era. Mixed in are Cher's many solo singles as well. Pretty much everything you'd want is here. The songs are in chronological order so you can hear how Cher's voice matured and Sonny's...well Sonny sounds like Sonny throughout! The booklet inside contains photos of the duos single sleeves as well as a bio of the two. The biggest complaint I would give it is this, first of all it is NOT all inclusive as it does not contain the very last Sonny & Cher single, "You're Not Right For Me" from 1977. And the other big flaw, is that for whatever reason they cut off the last "I love you!" from "Classified 1A". The song had been a very rare track until recently where it has turned up on several collections, including "The Way Of Love ~ The Cher Anthology" and Cher's new internet only release "Not Commercial". If you're looking for all the Sonny & Cher songs you remember, here you go. You get the hits, "I Got You Babe", you get the solo hits "Laugh At Me", "Gypsy's Tramps & Thieves",and you get the just plain weird tracks "Sing C'Est La Vie", "Plastic Man". Altogether you get a great set. So until someone decides to put out a Sonny & Cher or even just a Cher boxed set, this is a great place to start.