Sonny & Cher Live


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" 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" 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
  1. "What Now My Love" - 2:52
  2. "The Beat Goes On" - 9:00
  3. "Once in a Lifetime" - 2:08
  4. "More Today Than Yesterday" - 2:32
  5. "Got to Get You into My Life" - 1:25
  6. "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" - 4:00
;Side B
  1. "Danny Boy" - 5:53
  2. "Laugh at Me" - 2:46
  3. "Something" - 4:00
  4. "Hey Jude" - 7:30
  5. "I Got You Babe" - 3:26
Note the running time of the album exceeds the length listed for the individual tracks, due to banter between the songs.

Personnel

Production

  • Denis Pregnolato - producer
  • Angel Balestier - engineer
  • Nye Morton - assistant engineer