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Cher Best of the Imperial Recordings 1965-1968 Release Date: 2007 05 07 Label: EMI Gold Rating:

In 1965, flush from the success of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe," Cher earned her first major solo contract with Liberty/Imperial (she had previously recorded only a few singles under aliases). With Sonny Bono enlisted as producer, Cher lit up the pop charts with the smash "All I Really Want to Do," and its follow-up, "I Go to Sleep." Although the next three years saw only inconsistent chart entries, her recordings were interesting and frequently as good as the leading lights of folk-pop, the Mamas & the Papas. And she covered most of the best folk songwriters of the time -- Dylan, Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, Paul Simon, and Jackie DeShannon. Add points for a few interesting crossovers of pop songs like "Sunny" or "Alfie" (the latter a Top 40 hit), but subtract some for a few misguided covers ("It's Not Unusual" prime among them), and The Best of the Imperial Recordings 1965-1968 is revealed as a near-necessity for '60s folk-rock fans. It includes all of her album debut, All I Really Want to Do, as well as the vast majority of her four subsequent LPs for the label (The Sonny Side of Cher, Cher, With Love, Cher, Backstage). John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	All I Really Want to Do	Dylan	2:59
2	I Go to Sleep	Davies	2:47
3	Needles and Pins	Nitzsche, Bono	2:49
4	Don't Think Twice	Dylan	2:52
5	She Thinks I Still Care	Lipscomb	2:23
6	Dream Baby	Bono	2:52
7	Bells of Rhymney	Davies, Seeger	3:22
8	Girl Don't Come	Andrews	2:17
9	See See Rider	Covay	3:00
10	Come and Stay with Me	DeShannon	2:47
11	Cry Myself to Sleep	Gordon	2:29
12	Blowin' in the Wind	Dylan	3:18
13	Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)	Bono	2:46
14	Where Do You Go	Bono	3:18
15	Our Day Will Come	Garson, Hillard	2:13
16	Elusive Butterfly	Lind	2:29
17	Like a Rolling Stone	Dylan	3:55
18	Come to Your Window	Lind	3:02
19	Girl from Ipanema	DeMoraes, Gimbel, Jobim	2:14
20	It's Not Unusual	Mills, Reed	2:09
21	Milord	Lewis, Moustaki, Monnot	2:41
22	Sunny	Hebb	3:08
23	Twelfth of Never	Livingston, Webster	2:17
24	You Don't Have to Say You Love Me	Napier-Bell, Donaggio, Wickham, Pallavicini	2:48
25	I Feel Something in the Air (Magic in the Air)	Bono	3:51
26	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	King, Goffin	3:00
27	Until It's Time for You to Go	Sainte-Marie	2:46
28	Homeward Bound	Simon	2:27
29	I Want You	Dylan	2:50
30	Alfie	Bacharach, David	2:51
31	You Better Sit Down Kids	Bono	3:43
32	Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)	Bono	3:26
33	Behind the Door	Gouldman	3:45
34	Sing for Your Supper	Rodgers, Hart	2:37
35	I Will Wait for You	Legrand, Gimbel	3:16
36	Times They Are a Changin'	Dylan	3:10
37	Carnival	Ant, Bonfa, Creatore, Peretti, Weiss	3:31
38	It All Adds Up Now	Sahm	3:02
39	Reason to Believe	Hardin	2:29
40	I Wasn't Ready	Hill, Creaux	3:03
41	Take Me for a Little While	Martin	2:45
42	Impossible Dream	Darion, Leigh	2:29
43	Click Song	Makeba	2:58
44	Song Called Children	West	3:40

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