All I Really Want to Do (album)
All I Really Want to Do | ||||
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Released | August 16, 1965 | |||
Studio | Gold Star, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Folk-pop | |||
Length | 31:45 | |||
Label | Imperial | |||
Producer | Sonny Bono | |||
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Singles from All I Really Want to Do | ||||
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All I Really Want to Do is the debut solo
Background and production
At the same time that the duo Sonny & Cher were debuting on Atco Records, Sonny Bono arranged a solo deal for Cher on the Imperial label.[2] After the success of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" single, Bono decided to promote his wife as a solo act, producing her first full-length album himself. The album was Cher's first solo project since the release of her two unsuccessful 1964 singles, "Ringo, I Love You" and "Dream Baby", released under the pseudonyms Bonnie Jo Mason and Cherilyn respectively. All I Really Want to Do, like the debut album by Sonny & Cher, Look at Us, contains many covers. The album includes recordings of contemporary, uptempo rock songs, but it also has a somewhat folky slant to it, in order to differentiate it from the musical style of Sonny & Cher's records.[2] Recording for the album concluded at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood the last week of June 1965.[3]
On the album, Cher covered three songs written and performed by
Singles
The song "
single charts. "All I Really Want to Do" was the first single to be released by Cher under that name and was also her first solo hit. The album also contained the Bono-penned song, "Dream Baby", which had been released as a single in 1964 by Cher, under the pseudonym of Cherilyn.The initial idea to cover "All I Really Want to Do" came when Cher heard the Los Angeles
Critical reception
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AllMusic | [9] |
Record Mirror | [10] |
All I Really Want to Do has received positive reviews from music critics, with Tim Sendra, of the
Chart performance
All I Really Want to Do peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States and went on to spend 24 weeks on the chart.[12] The album entered the chart while the debut album by Sonny & Cher, Look at Us, was still at number two. The album also entered the UK Albums Chart, debuting at number 20 in early October 1965 and peaking at #7 two weeks later.[4] The album remained in the UK chart for nine weeks between early October and late November.[4] Although All I Really Want to Do reached the UK Album Chart, it failed to chart in Europe.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "All I Really Want to Do" | Bob Dylan | 2:56 |
2. | "I Go to Sleep" | Ray Davies | 2:28 |
3. | "Needles and Pins" | 2:26 | |
4. | "Don't Think Twice" | Dylan | 2:25 |
5. | "He Thinks I Still Care" | Dickey Lee Lipscomb | 2:15 |
6. | "Dream Baby" | Bono | 2:58 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Bells of Rhymney" | 3:07 | |
2. | "Girl Don't Come" | Chris Andrews | 2:05 |
3. | "See See Rider" | Traditional (arranged by Bono, Charles Greene, Robert Stone) | 2:38 |
4. | "Come and Stay with Me" | Jackie DeShannon | 2:45 |
5. | "Cry Myself to Sleep" | Mike Gordon | 2:18 |
6. | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Dylan | 3:24 |
Personnel
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Charts
Chart (1965) | Peak position |
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UK Albums Chart[13] | 7 |
US Billboard 200[12] | 16 |
Notes
- ^ a b c "All I Really Want to Do albums". Homepages.ihug.com.au. Archived from the original on July 17, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
- ^ a b c d "All I Really Want to Do Review". CherScholar.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
- ^ Hinman 2004, p. 59.
- ^ a b c Brown 2000, p. 156.
- ^ a b c d e Rogan 1998, pp. 81–83.
- ^ Hjort 2008, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Hjort 2008, p. 39.
- ^ Hjort 2008, p. 57.
- ^ Sendra, Tim. "Cher - All I Really Want to Do". AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (30 September 1965). "Cher: All I Really Want To Do" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 238. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
- ^ a b "Billboard 200 - Cher". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ "Cher | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
References
- Rogan, Johnny (1998), The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited, Rogan House, ISBN 0-9529540-1-X
- Hinman, Doug (2004). The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night: Day by Day Concerts, Recordings, and Broadcasts, 1961–1996. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-765-3.
- Hjort, Christopher (2008), So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-By-Day (1965-1973), Jawbone Press, ISBN 978-1-906002-15-2
- Brown, Tony (2000), The Complete Book of the British Charts, Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-7670-8