All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher CD

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher album for sale Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg & Rob Christie (Capitol Mastering). Compared to the purer Nashville Sound country of the albums that immediately preceded it, including Glen Campbell's breakthrough album BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX, GENTLE ON MY MIND is basically an orchestrated folk-rock record. It's much less twangy than most of Campbell's albums from the period, and includes some excellent pure-pop covers, most notably wonderful versions of Donovan's "Catch the Wind," Harry Nilsson's "Without Her," and Roy Orbison's "Crying," alongside more country-oriented material. Although the title track was the only hit extracted from GENTLE ON MY MIND, the album holds together beautifully and is easily among the best records of Campbell's career. As the least country-oriented of his early albums, it's also an excellent starting point for newcomers intrigued by Campbell's earlier work with the Beach Boys but dubious ...

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher buy CD music Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg & Rob Christie (Capitol Mastering). With its two Jimmy Webb-penned hits--the sweetly melodic title track and the slightly overwrought though lyrically obscure melodrama of "Where's the Playground Susie?"--one might expect GALVESTON to be, like GENTLE ON MY MIND before it, one of Glen Campbell's more pop-oriented albums. The fact is, however, that GALVESTON is the album on which Campbell once and for all swings firmly to the country side of country-pop, where he would stay--barring minor digressions like the country-disco fusion of 1977's "Southern Nights"--for the rest of his career. Producer/arranger Al de Lory and Campbell stick to the Nashville Sound even on tracks like the Spanish-guitar showcase "If This Is Love" (on which Campbell's often-underrated picking skills are flashily shown off) and the trad-folk "Today." Closing out Campbell's early period with some of his best songs, GALVESTON is also a forerunner to the sound Campbell would explore in the '70s. This is part of Capitol's Cornerstones series. Personnel: Glen Campbell (vocals, guitar). Arranger: Al DeLory.

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher songs Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg & Rob Christie (Capitol Mastering). Contrary to popular belief, 1967's BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX was not Glen Campbell's first album for Capitol Records; he had released several other albums and singles for the label since 1964, including the lost Brian Wilson treasure "Guess I'm Dumb" in 1966. This album, however, was both his commercial breakthrough and represents the first fruits of his collaboration with Jimmy Webb, the songwriter who would go on to pen most of Campbell's biggest hits. The title track is the only Webb composition on the record, but the other 10 tracks are equally fine, particularly an excellent, emotional cover of Paul Simon's "Homeward Bound" and a heavily orchestrated but vocally sly take on the Jerry Reed hit "You're Young and You'll Forget." Finally, although Campbell is rightly praised mostly as an interpretive singer, two of the album's finest songs, "Back in the Race" and the placid closer "Love Is A Lonesome River," are Campbell originals, the latter co-written by another member of the Beach Boys' inner circle, Roger Christian. This is part of Capitol's Cornerstones series. Personnel: Glen Campbell (vocals, guitar). Audio Remasterer: Glenn Meadows. Arrangers: Jimmie Haskell; Al DeLory; Leon Russell; Mort Garson.

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher CD music On her second album, Melissa Manchester remained largely under the influence of some immediate predecessors, though she was beginning to show evidence of an original talent. The impact of Laura Nyro still could be heard on songs like the title track and "O Heaven (How You've Changed to Me)," with their vibrant gospel tone. If Manchester seemed to come at such a style as a respectful outsider, as opposed to Nyro's obsessively inside approach, it may have been that her arsenal of musical genres were secondhand, acquired through her mentor, Paul Simon, for whom she wrote the bubbly "Ode to Paul." Where Nyro had the intensity of Nina Simone, Manchester was merely eclectic, assimilating elements of jazz, rock, soul, and pre-rock pop with an attractive playfulness that never lost a certain self-consciousness. Her new songwriting partner, Adrienne Anderson, while closer to her sensibility than her previous one, Carole Bayer Sager, nevertheless did not match Manchester's own writing alone. And the improvement in that writing was the real story here: on songs like "Inclined" and "He Is the One," Manchester revealed a talent for sensitive writing combined with assured yet restrained singing on romantic piano ballads that would prove to be her commercial breakout on her next album, after Bell, her tiny record label, was converted into Arista, an aggressive mini-major. As it was, Bright Eyes marked a significant advance over Home to Myself. ~ William Ruhlmann Recording information: Le Studio, New York, NY. Photographer: Joel Brodsky. Arranger: Melissa Manchester. Personnel: Melissa Manchester (vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, background vocals); Kirk Bruner (vocals, trombone, drums, percussion); Henry Medross (vocals, percussion); Leslie Miller, Hilda Harris (vocals, background vocals); John Cooker Lopresti, The Dixie Hummingbirds (vocals); Dave Appell (guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion); David Wolfert (guitar, sitar, percussion); Chris Dedrick (guitar, recorder, trumpet, Clavinet, organ, keyboards); Jerry Friedman (guitar); Stanley Schwartz (flute, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, piano, electric piano, keyboards); Don Grolnick (organ, keyboards); Allen Schwarzberg, Allan Schwartzberg (drums); George Devens, Rick Chertoff (percussion). Audio Mixer: Billy Radice.

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher buy CD music Sonny and Cher had released a handful of previous singles, under both their own names and the pseudonyms Caesar and Cleo, but this is their full length debut album, a curious mix of folk-rock jangle and Spector-influenced orchestral pop. Sonny Bono worked under Spector as a go-fer, session musician and staff songwriter, and his admiration for the producer's patented Wall of Sound verges on slavish imitation in spots. It's clearly felt on "Let It Be Me" and a note-for-note cover of the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me." It's the folk-rock material, like the enormous hit "I Got You Babe," the sweet "Five Hundred Miles," and a terrific version of the Beau Brummels' "Don't Talk To Strangers," that's the most interesting. Wisely, Sundazed chose to use the superior mono mixes for this excellent reissue. The duo's debut album on CD for the first time ever! Features the original artwork, new liner notes & 3 bonus tracks: 'It's The Little Things', 'Don't Talk To Strangers' & 'Hello'. Originally released on Atco in 1965, it now features a total of 15 tracks, also including their #1 smash 'I Got You Babe', plus the hits 'Just You' & 'The Letter'. 1998 Sundazed release. Recording information: Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Arranger: Sonny Bono. Personnel: Sonny Bono, Cher (vocals); Donald Peake, Monte Dunn, Steve Mann, Barney Kessel (guitar); Don Randi, Harold Battiste, Jr. (piano); Michel Rubini (harpsichord); Frank Capp, Hal Blaine (drums); Gene Estes, Brian Stone (percussion). Liner Note Author: Ken Sharp.

All I Really Want to Do/The Sonny Side of Cher songs Beat Goes On goes to one of its inspirations here, packaging two Imperial albums by Cher, from 1966 and 1968 respectively. Both were produced by Sonny Bono, her husband at the time, but things were looking rocky at this point, as evidenced by the first song on the latter album, the single "You Better Sit Down Kids" written by Bono. The first set -- Cher's solo debut -- features a ton of hits by the great songwriters of the day, from Goffin & King ("Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"), Paul Simon ("Homeward Bound"), Donovan ("Catch the Wind"), Bob Dylan ("I Want You") and from the latter album's closer, "The Times They Are A Changin'," Bobby Hebb ("Sunny"), and more. Another fascinating thing about these records are some of the session players involved with them: guitarist Mac Rebbenack (Dr. John), arranger Harold Battiste (also from the Crescent City), guitarist Mike Post ("Hill Street Blues Theme"), Steppenwolf's organist, pianist and producer Gabriel Meckler, percussionist Gene Estes, and others. Musically this is what Cher does now and did then. She has only one voice and one way to use it, so if you dig that voice, over-emoted as it is, with no sense of timing -- and there is beauty in that -- you will dig this hard. ~ Thom Jurek This 2 CD set features Cher's 3rd and 4th studio albums for Liberty records. They have been digitally remastered and are housed in a slipcase with extensive new sleeve notes. BGO. 2005. 2LP pn 1 CD: CHER/WITH LOVE, CHER. Personnel: Donald Peake, Mac Rebennack (guitar); David Cohen, Mike Post (12-string guitar); Gabriel Mekler (piano); Michel Rubini (harpsichord); Cliff Hills (upright bass); Lyle Ritz (electric bass); Gene Estes (percussion). Audio Remasterer: Andrew Thompson . Liner Note Authors: Sonny Bono; John Tobler. Recording information: Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Arranger: Harold Battiste, Jr.