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1966 song past Cher

1966 single by Cher

"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Cher Bang Bang cover 7 inch.png
Unmarried by Cher
from the anthology The Sonny Side of Chér
B-side
  • "Needles and Pins"
  • "Our Solar day Will Come up"
Released February 25, 1966
Recorded 1966
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:44
Label Imperial
Songwriter(south) Sonny Bono
Producer(due south) Sonny Bono
Cher singles chronology
"Where Do You Become"
(1965) 		"Blindside Blindside (My Babe Shot Me Downwardly)"
(1966) 		"Alfie"
(1966)
Sound
Cher – "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Downwards)" on YouTube

"Blindside Bang (My Baby Shot Me Downward)" is the second single by American vocalist-actress Cher from her second album, The Sonny Side of Chér. Written by her and then-husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966, the song reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and No. two on the Billboard Hot 100 for a single week (behind "(Yous're My) Soul and Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers), eventually becoming one of Cher'due south biggest-selling singles of the 1960s.[1] [2]

History [edit]

The single proved successful, charting high in several countries worldwide. It became Cher'southward first one thousand thousand-selling single and her first top iii hit in the Uk (and her last until "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" reached No. 1 in 1991). Critic Tim Sendra, in his album review of The Sonny Side of Cher, gave the song a mixed review: "The only track that has any existent zest is the Bono-written novelty 'Bang Bang (My Babe Shot Me Downward)', the kind of dramatic song Cher could knock out in her sleep but also a song with no real center."[3] On the other hand, the reviewer for Cashbox said the vocal was "inventive", and predicted it would become a "blockbuster" striking. The reviewer praised its "plaintive, blues-soaked" way, likewise as the "interesting Gypsy-ish backing".[4]

In 1987, Cher recorded a rock version of the song for her 1987 Platinum-certified comeback album Cher. Produced past Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child, the song featured backing vocals past Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Bolton, amid others, and was released as a promotional single in 1988. Cher performed this version on her Eye of Stone Tour and on Living Proof: The Farewell Bout, and information technology was played instrumentally on the Dressed to Kill Bout in 2014, Classic Cher in 2017–2020, and the Here We Go Once more Tour in 2018–2020.

Track listing [edit]

  • 1966 Us and European 7" unmarried
  1. "Bang Bang (My Infant Shot Me Down)" – 2:40
  2. "Our Twenty-four hour period Will Come" – 2:28
  • 1987 French 7" unmarried
  1. "Bang-Bang" – 3:51
  2. "I Found Someone" – 3:42
  • 1993 French CD single
  1. "Bang-Blindside" – iii:54
  2. "Whenever Yous're Near" – 4:05

Charts [edit]

Lady Gaga version [edit]

External sound
audio icon "Blindside Blindside (My Babe Shot Me Downward)" (live from Jazz at Lincoln Center) by Lady Gaga on YouTube

Lady Gaga performed "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" in July 2014 at Jazz at Lincoln Centre, for the TV special Cheek to Cheek Live!.[28] She was wearing a ruby-red-leather jumpsuit and a curly blackness wig which was previously worn past Cher.[29] [30] [31] The recording of the functioning became available as a bonus track on the iTunes/Apple Music version of her first collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek (2014).[32] Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian called Gaga'due south have on the song "Vegas-brassy".[33] Mikael Forest of the Chicago Tribune thought that the song "in Gaga'southward hands played similar a main class in finding new feeling in a familiar oldie."[34] Writing for Vulture, Richard Southward. He wrote that "the band plays a bossa-nova accept on the song while Gaga sings solo", adding that the vocaliser "mostly leans abroad from the song's natural melodrama — until she belts the final verse with full diva theatrics."[31] Rand Duren from The Dallas Morn News idea that Gaga "goes into 'Blindside Blindside (My Baby Shot Me Downwards)' in total strength with a masterful interpretation and solid vocals".[35] Erin Strecker from Billboard chosen Gaga'southward rendition "incredible" and said that her "version is all big notes and dramatic tension. Annotation to Gaga: More of this, delight."[28]

Gaga's version of "Blindside Bang" debuted at No. ane on Billboard's Jazz Digital Songs Chart.[36] The singer's later performances of the song include concert tours ArtRave: The Artpop Ball (2014)[37] and the Cheek to Cheek Bout (2014–2015),[38] and her Jazz & Piano Vegas residency (2019–2021).[39]

Other notable versions [edit]

Nancy Sinatra recorded one of the best-known covers of the song, for her 1966 album How Does That Grab Yous? Her version features tremolo guitar, played past her arranger, Baton Strange,[40] and had a resurgence in popularity when information technology was used in the opening credits of the 2003 Quentin Tarantino film Impale Bill Book 1. In the sequence preceding the credits, Tarantino creates a literal, bloody interpretation of the song'southward chorus and the third verse, nigh a wedding day.[41] Her version too was the theme for BBC coverage of the 2005 Wimbledon tennis championships, and has been sampled on several hip-hop recordings, including the Audio Bullys (featuring Nancy Sinatra) top iii Britain hit "Shot You Downward" in 2005.

External audio
audio icon "Bang Bang" (Italian) by Dalida on YouTube

The vocal was also very popular in Italy in 1966 when it was covered in Italian past Dalida. The vocal reached #i and stayed for ii months winning her a gold record. Following her recording, which appeared on her 1967 album "Piccolo Ragazzo", several Italian singers including Mina, and the psychedelic bands Equipe 84 and I Corvi[42] covered her version. Her version was also included equally chief vocal of 2010 drama moving picture Heartbeats.

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • "Blindside Bang (My Baby Shot Me Downwards)" Sheet music for Baton Foreign's tremolo guitar part
  • "Khi Xưa Ta Bé" — Thúy Nga – Paris By Night (Vietnamese covers) on YouTube
  • "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Frank Sinatra on YouTube

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