For more on the duo check post on their debute album https://monolover.blogspot.com/2023/12/sonny-cherlook-at-us-587034-66-uk-mono.html . I wasn't all in with that when listening to it for the first time in decades. One smash hit coupled with other more or less ok numbers, of which some had undergone a severely bombastic production, clearly inspired by Bono's former employer Phil Spector though not as attuned. To my ears this "Best Of" compilation does better on most levels. I get a number of my Sonny Bono-penned favorites - "The Beat Goes On", "I Got You Babe", "Little Man", "Just You" and "Laugh At Me". Also the audio on this is partly a bit drier and cooler than on the debute so it's better listening...at least for me. They were a big international hit during a couple of years in the sixties, then continued to make successful TV-shows in America, whereafter Cher went on to a successful solo carreer and Sonny Bono got into politics, becoming a member of U.S. House Of Representatives. But whatever they did later years, it's that period 1965-67 that still does it for me, with songs that over fifty years later can catch and remain. And on here I get a couple their best. Issued and reissued all over the world on vinyl through the years, also cassette, 8-track, 4-track and reel. Premiere US on ATCO (SD/33-219). First UK had label as shown here in a thin laminated cover. (ÄTHP*) (FÄV*)
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