Look At Us

Performer: Sonny & Cher
Engineer: Stan Ross
Producer: Sonny Bono
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Sonny Bono, Cher (vocals); Donald Peake, Monte Dunn, Steve Mann, Barney Kessel (guitar); Don Randi, Harold Battiste (piano); Michel Rubini (harpsichord); Frank Capp, Hal Blaine (drums); Gene Estes, Brian Stone (percussion). Liner Note Author: Ken Sharp. Recording information: Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Arranger: Sonny Bono. 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.

Although touted as the misunderstood young lovers of 1965 folk-rock, Sonny Bono and Cher were not all their image suggested. Bono had a history in the music business stretching back to the late '50s, and became romantically attached to Cher, who was working as a backing singer. The duo found fame with 1965's transatlantic number 1, "I Got You Babe," and followed it up, as both a duo and soloists, with a formidable passel of hit singles. In the '70s they hosted their own television variety show, and Cher enjoyed a phenomenally successful acting and singing career, while Bono became a successful politician before dying in a skiing accident in 1998.

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