Backstage (album)
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| Studio album by Cher | ||||||||||
| Released | July 1968 June 12, 2007 (Re-released) |
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| Recorded | 1967/68 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop, folk | |||||||||
| Length | 36:17 | |||||||||
| Label | Liberty/Imperial BGO Records |
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| Producer | Sonny Bono, Harold R. Battiste Jr. and Denis Pregnolato | |||||||||
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Backstage is the fifth album by American singer-actess Cher, released on July 1968 by Imperial Records. This album was her first commercial failure, failed to chart. The album is by-and-large a covers album.
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[edit] Album information
Backstage was released in 1968, was produced once again by Sonny Bono with Denis Pregnolato and Harold R. Battiste Jr. and was Cher's last album on the Liberty Records subsidiary, Imperial Records.
The album was not a success and was her first to produce no hit singles.[2] "The Click Song" and "Take Me For A Little While" were released as singles, but they did not chart.
In this year Cher recorded also others two songs: "Yours Until Tomorrow" and "The Thought Of Loving You". "Yours Until Tomorrow" was released as a single with "The Thought Of Loving You".
The album was re-issued on CD in 2007 along with the greatest hits release Golden Greats.
[edit] Track listing
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Go Now" | Larry Banks, Milton Bennett | 3:56 | ||||||
| 2. | "Carnival" | Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria | 3:26 | ||||||
| 3. | "It All Adds Up Now" | Doug Sahm | 2:57 | ||||||
| 4. | "Take Me for a Little While" | Trade Martin | 2:40 | ||||||
| 5. | "Reason to Believe" | Tim Hardin | 2:26 | ||||||
| 6. | "Masters of War" | Bob Dylan | 4:09 | ||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Do You Believe in Magic" | John Sebastian | 2:36 | ||||||
| 2. | "I Wasn't Ready" | Dr. John Creaux, Jessie Hill | 2:59 | ||||||
| 3. | "A House Is Not a Home" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 2:14 | ||||||
| 4. | "Click Song" | Miriam Makeba | 2:53 | ||||||
| 5. | "The Impossible Dream" | Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh | 2:26 | ||||||
| 6. | "Song Called Children" | Bob West | 3:35 | ||||||
[edit] Credits
Personnel
- Cher - lead vocals
Production
- Sonny Bono - record producer
- Harold R. Battiste, Jr. - record producer
- Denis Pregnolato - record producer
- Stan Ross - sound engineer
Design
- Sonny Bono - photography
- Woody Woodward - art direction
[edit] References
- ^ Backstage (album) at Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
- ^ http://chernews.blogspot.com/p/biography-page-i.html
[edit] External links
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