Cher's Musical History - The 90s

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1990

1990 Singles: "Just Like Jesse James", "Heart Of Stone"
"Trail Of Broken Hearts" appears on "Days Of Thunder" soundtrack (Geffen)

1991

"The Beat Goes On"
Atco

Baby Don't Go
Just You
Sing C'est La Vie
I Got You Babe
Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love
Laugh At me
But You're Mine
The Revolution Kind
What Now My Love
Have I Stayed Too Long
Leave Me Be
Little Man
Living For You
Love Don't Come
The Beat Goes On
Beautiful Story
It's The Little Things
My Best Friend's Girl Is Out Of Sight
Good Combination
I Got You Babe ("Good Times" Soundtrack version)
Hello

"Love Hurts"
Geffen

Produced by Bob Rock, Richie Zito, Guy Roche,
Diane Warren, Peter Asher and Steve Lukather

Save Up All Your Tears (Warren/Child)
Love Hurts (Bryant)
Love And Understanding (Warren)
Fires Of Eden (Hain/Goldenberg)
I'll Never Stop Loving You (Ghifrin/Cassidy/Wetton)
One Small Step (Mann/Waldman/Parker)
A World Without Heroes (Stanley/Ezrin/Reed/Simmons)
Could've Been You (Roman/Halligan)
When Love Calls Your Name (Snow/Scott)
When Lovers Become Strangers (Warren)
Who You Gonna Believe (Fontano/Marquez/Marquez/Chalfant)
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) (Clark)

The cover artwork was changed shortly after release

A limited edition version omitted "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)". It came with tarot cards, each one pertaining to one of the album's 11 songs and containing lyrics and credits, in a velum sleeve. The CD is a picture disc that also comes in a velum sleeve, packaged in a balsa wood box with a foil-stamped Cher logo on the front.

Billboard® review for week ending 6/22/91

Judging from initial radio and sales reaction to fun first single "Love & Understanding," media icon's third Geffen set should maintain recent pop chart resurgence. With a few exceptions, overall musical direction is more straight-forward rock'n'roll this time, which is the perfect environment for her unique vocal style. Material here is among the strongest she's performed in years, with highlights including the aggressive (and logical next single) "Save Up All Your Tears" and thunderous ballad "I'll Never Stop Loving You."

1991 Singles: "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" and "Baby I'm Yours" from "Mermaids" soundtrack
"Love and Understanding", also released as a 12" and a promo-only 12" single and limited edition CD single, "Love Hurts"

1992

"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady" were partially reissued on this CD in 1992.

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Don't Hide Your Love
The First Time
Let Me Down Easy
Half-Breed
Dark Lady
Carousel Man
Song For You
Train Of Thought
The Way Of Love

"Extravaganza: Live at the Mirage"
BMG Video

Recorded live at the Mirage, Las Vegas

I'm No Angel (Palmer/Cotton)
Hold On (Child)
We All Sleep Alone (Child/Warren)
Bang Bang (Bono)
I Found Someone (Bolton/Mangold)
Perfection (Child/Warren)
Tougher Than The Rest (Springsteen)
After All (Snow/Pitchford)
Take It To The Limit (Henley/Frey/Meisner)
If I Could Turn Back Time (Warren)
Many Rivers To Cross (Cliff/West)
Fire Down Below"  (Seger)
Takin' It To The Streets  (McDonald)

To see and hear Cher sing "I'm No Angel" in RealVideo, click here


"Cher's Greatest Hits 1965-1992"
Geffen UK

UK-only release of Cher's Greatest Hits

Oh No Not My Baby
Whenever You're Near
Many Rivers To Cross (Live at the Mirage)
Love And Understanding
Save Up All Your Tears
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)
If I Could Turn Back Time
Just Like Jesse James
Heart Of Stone
I Found Someone
We All Sleep Alone
Bang-Bang
Dead Ringer For Love (with Meat Loaf)
Dark Lady
Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves
I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher)

"The Video Collection"
Geffen UK

UK-only release of Cher's Greatest Video Hits

If I Could Turn Back Time
Save Up All Your Tears
Love And Understanding
Heart Of Stone
Main Man
We All Sleep Alone
I Found Someone
Just Like Jesse James
Dead Ringer For Love (with Meat Loaf)
Many Rivers To Cross (Live at the Mirage)
I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher from Top Of The Pops)

1992 Singles: "Save Up All Your Tears", "Could've Been You" (also released as a 12" picture disc), "When Lovers Become Strangers",  "Oh, No, Not My Baby", "Whenever You're Near" (also released as a 12" picture disc), with Spinal Tap on "Just Begin Again" from "Break Like The Wind" (hear it on RARE CHER page)

1993

1993 Singles: "Many Rivers To Cross", "I Got You Babe" with Beavis and Butthead

1994

1994 Single: "It Ain't Necessarily So" with Larry Adler from the Gershwin tribute album "The Glory Of Gershwin"

1995

"It's A Man's World"
WEA UK & Canada

Produced by Christopher Neil, Stephen Lipson, Greg Penny and Trevor Horn

Walking In Memphis (Cohn)
Not Enough Love In The World (Henley/Tench/Kortchmar)
One By One (Griffiths)
I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me) (Walsh/Barri/Price/Omartian)
Angels Running (Larkin)
Paradise Is Here (Brady)
I'm Blowin' Away (Kaz)
Don't Come Around Tonight (Sharp/Addison)
What About The Moonlight (York/Dorian)
The Same Mistake (Jordan/Capek)
The Gunman (McAloon)
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Gaudio/Crewe)
Shape Of Things To Come (Horn/Creme)
It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Brown)

"All I Ever Need - The Kapp/MCA Anthology"
MCA

Classified 1A (Cher)
Real People
Somebody
Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves
I Hate To Sleep Alone
When You Find Out Where You're Goin', Let Me Know
The Way Of Love
All I Ever Need Is You
Crystal Clear/Muddy Waters
United We Stand
A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
Living In A House Divided
When You Say Love
By Love I Mean
Mama Was A Rock And Roll Singer, Papa Used To Write All Her Songs (single edit)
The Greatest Show On Earth
Half-Breed
Chastity Sun
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Dark Lady
Train Of Thought
Make The Man Love Me
Rescue Me
Classified 1A (Sonny)

(Sonny & Cher Live + 1)
What Now My Love
The Beat Goes On
Once In A Lifetime/More Today Than Yesterday/Got To Get You In To My Life
Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
Laugh At Me
I Got You Babe
All I Ever Need Is You
I Can See Clearly Now/You've Got A Friend/Where You Lead
You And I
Dialogue
You Better Sit Down Kids
Band Introduction/I Got You Babe
Our Last Show

1995 Singles: "Walking In Memphis" , "Walking In Memphis" remix single,
"Love Can Build A Bridge" with Neneh Cherry, Chrissie Hynde and Eric Clapton. Charity single for Britain's Comic Relief

1996

"It's A Man's World"
Reprise

Produced by Christopher Neil, Stephen Lipson, Greg Penny and Trevor Horn
Remixes by Sam Ward

One By One - remix (Griffiths)
Angels Running - remix (Larkin)
Not Enough Love In The World - remix (Henley/Tench/Kortchmar)
What About The Moonlight - remix (York/Dorian
Paradise Is Here - remix (Brady)
The Same Mistake (Jordan/Capek)
I'm Blowin' Away (Kaz)
Walking In Memphis (Cohn)
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Gaudio/Crewe)
The Gunman (McAloon)
It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Brown)

Initial pressing featured a hologram CD

Billboard® review for week ending 7/13/96

When the world last heard Cher's instantly recognizable warbling, it was in the role of a swaggering faux metal mama. She opens a promising new chapter in her long and winding recording career on a softer, often sullen rhythm pop note, revealing vibrant and previously unheard colors of her voice. And while it might be difficult for some to separate the infomercial hawker from the artist, there is no denying her successful diva stretch on Trevor Horn's gloriously bombastic production of the Walker Bros. evergreen "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" or her surprisingly soulful falsetto on the set's charming first single, "One By One."

"The Casablanca Years"
Casablanca



Take Me Home
Wasn't It Good
Say The Word
Happy Was The Day We Met
Git Down (Guitar Groupie)
Love & Pain
Let This Be A Lesson To You
It's Too Late To Love Me Now
My Song (Too Far Gone)
Prisoner
Holdin' Out For Love
Shoppin'
Boys & Girls
Mirror Image
Hell On Wheels
Holy Smoke
Outrageous

"Take Me Home" and "Prisoner" on one CD

1996 Singles: "Not Enough Love In The World", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", "One By One" UK, US, US Maxi

1997

1997 Singles: "Paradise Is Here"

new dance remixes of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" on 12" single,
and on Universal "Global Grooves" dance compilation
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" on "For Our Children, Too" - Pediatric AIDS benefit album
"One By One" (remix) appears on "Junior Vasquez - Live"

1998

"Cher and Sonny & Cher - Greatest Hits"
MCA



All I Ever Need Is You
Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves
I Hate To Sleep Alone
The Way Of Love
Crystal Clear/Muddy Waters
United We Stand
A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
When You Say Love
10.Mama Was A Rock And Roll Singer, Papa Used To Write All Her Songs (single edit)
Living In A House Divided
The Greatest Show On Earth
When You Find Out Where You're Goin', Let Me Know
Half-Breed
Dark Lady
Train Of Thought
I Got You Babe (live)

Single CD version of the "All I Need Is You" Kapp/MCA Anthology

"Believe"
WEA UK



Produced by Mark Taylor, Brian Rawling, Junior Vasquez and Todd Terry

Believe (Higgins/Barry/Torch/Gray/McLennan/Powell)
The Power (Sims/Spence)
Runaway (Barry/Taylor)
All Or Nothing (Barry/Taylor)
Strong Enough (Barry/Taylor)
Dov'è L'amore (Barry/Taylor)
Takin' Back My Heart (Warren)
Taxi Taxi (Terry/Jordan)
Love Is The Groove (Cook/Woolley)
We All Sleep Alone (Child/Warren)

1998 Singles: "Believe" UK #1, #2, US

"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" (remix) appears on "Junior Vasquez - Live Volume 2"

1999

"Bittersweet: The Love Songs"
MCA/Universal



By Myself
I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good
Am I Blue
How Long Has This Been Going On
The Man I Love
Jolson Medley - Sonny Boy/My Mammy/Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
More Than You Know
Why Was I Born
The Man That Got Away
What'll I Do
The Long & Winding Road
Greatest Song I Ever Heard
David's Song
It Might As Well Stay Monday
Don't Try To Close A Rose
He'll Never Know
The Way Of Love

Billboard® review for week ending 3/6/99

It's not the best-known fact of Cher's long and winding career, but in 1973 she cut an album of love songs titled "Bittersweet White Light." Produced by her then husband Sonny Bono, it featured some songs she sang on "The Sonny And Cher Show," including "The Man I Love," "What'll I Do," and a medley of Al Jolson tunes: "Sonny Boy," "My Mammy," and "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody." The record made a paltry showing on the charts, disappeared from the radar, and was never reissued on CD in the U.S. until now. Even though much of it is schmaltzy and better versions of its songs exist elsewhere, this re-release couldn't be better timed, given Cher's recent resurgence as a pop/dance diva. Also, with more than 25 years of distance, "Bittersweet" has taken on a nostalgic glow. The CD reissue has been retitled to reflect its bonus tracks, which are culled from Cher's four other MCA records from the mid-'70s, including the gold-certified album "Half-Breed." A labor of love by catalog specialist Andy McKaie and Universal Music and Video Distribution marketing director Mike Khouri, who got into the music business because of his zeal for Cher.

"If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher's Greatest Hits"
Geffen/Universal



"Don't Come Cryin' To Me" (previously unreleased)
"Love and Understanding"
"Save Up All Your Tears"
"Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"
"After All" with Peter Cetera
"If I Could Turn Back Time"
"Just Like Jesse James"
"Heart of Stone"
"I Found Someone"
"We All Sleep Alone"
"Bang Bang"
"Take Me Home"
"Dark Lady"
"Half Breed"
"The Way of Love"
"Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves"
"I Got You Babe" (Sonny & Cher)

"Bang Bang: The Early Years"
Imperial/EMI

"Dream Baby"
"All I Want to Do"
"I Go to Sleep"
"Come and Stay With Me"
"Where Do You Go"
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot me Down)"
"Needles and Pins"
"Elusive Butterfly"
"Alfie"
"Sunny"
"Behind the Door"
"Magic in the Air (I Feel Something in the Air)"
"Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)"
"Hey Joe"
"You Better Sit Down, Kids"
"Girl From Ipanema"
"It's Not Unusual"

"Cher: The Greatest Hits"
WEA UK

"Believe"
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"
"If I Could Turn Back Time"
"Heart Of Stone"
"Love And Understanding"
"Love Hurts"
"Just Like Jesse James"
"I Found Someone"
"One By One"
"Strong Enough"
"All Or Nothing"
"Walking In Memphis"
"Love Can Build A Bridge"
"All I Really Want To Do"
"Bang Bang (1987 version)"
"Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves"
"The Beat Goes On"
"I Got You Babe"
"Dov'è L'amore" (radio edit - Emilio Estefan)

Released in the UK and Canada only

A flyer advertising the release of "Dov'è L'amore" (25 October 1999) and
"Cher: The Greatest Hits" (8 November 1999). Click for full-size.
Thanks to Gerben!

A three-CD Cher box-set was released in the UK 27 September 1999. The box set contains "The Collection" (an MCA hits CD), "Half Breed"/"Dark Lady", and "Cher"/"Foxy Lady". The box is available at EQS Music.

1999 Singles: "Strong Enough" UK #1, #2 , US, Japanese "Strong Enough"/"Believe" EP, "All Or Nothing" UK #1 & #2, "Dov'è L'amore" UK #1 & #2, "All Or Nothing"/"Dov'è L'amore" US

"Crimson & Clover" (with Elijah Blue) appears on the "A Walk On The Moon" soundtrack (Sire), "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" duet with Rosie O'Donnell appears on "A Rosie Christmas"(Columbia), a live version of "If I Could Turn Back Time" appears on "VH1 Divas Live 1999"(Arista).

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