45 RPMs 102: Cher ~ Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

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On February 11, 1966, Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) was recorded. It is the second single by American singer-actress Cher from her second album, The Sonny Side of Chér (1966). It was written by her husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966. It became her first million-selling single and her first top 3 hit in the UK         

 

Bang, Bang has had many interpretations over the decades. Lady Gaga performed it at the Lincoln Center as a tango. Cher recorded a rock version of Bang Bang for her Platinum-certified comeback album Cher (1987). Produced by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, the song features backing vocals by Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Bolton. In 2014 David Guetta and Giorgio Tuinfort performed a fast, almost frantic cover of the song and retitled it, Bang, Bang.           

 

        

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), written by Sonny Bono - 2:40

Side 2:


B - Our Day Will Come, written by Bob Hilliard, Mort Garson - 2:28

Companies, etc.

    Record Company – Liberty Records, Inc.

 Credits:

 

      Arranged By – Harold Battiste
    Producer – Sonny Bono

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers        

        

    Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): IM-6189
    Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): IM-6190
    Matrix / Runout (Etched Side A): IM 6189 X
    Matrix / Runout (Etched Side B): IM 6190

        

Cher – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) / Our Day Will Come
Label: Imperial – 66160
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Styrene
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Pop        

        

        

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Cher ~ 

          Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)             

          Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (live) (1991)        

          Our Day Will Come            

Lady Gaga ~ Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (live) (tango)       

David Guetta feat. Skylar Grey ~  Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)   

Nancy Sinatra ~  Bang, Bang       
        
         

        

        

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The 1500s ~ June brides, cats, dogs & dead ringers

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  Most people got married in June because they took their yearly  
bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they WERE
starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the 
body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.  

  Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of  the 
house had the privilege of the clean water, then the sons, then all the other
men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies.  By
then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. 
Hence the saying,  "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water."  

  Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw-piled high with no wood 
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so, all the cats and 
other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."  

  There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house..
This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet 
hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into
existence.   

  The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than
dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would
get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the
floor to help keep t heir footing. As the winter wore on, they added more
thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside.
A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a
thresh hold.   

  In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle
that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to
the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat
the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight
and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had
been there for quite a while.  Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, 
peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."  

  Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel 
quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. 
It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon."  They
would cut  off  a little to share with guests and would all sit around 
and "chew the fat."   

  Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid 
content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 
years or so  tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of 
the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper
crust."   

  Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination  would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone 
walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. 
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family
would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would 
wake up. Hence the custom of "holding a wake."    

  England is old and small and the local folks started running  
out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the  
bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 
1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they 
realized they had been burying people alive. So they  would tie a string on the 

wrist  of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through  the ground 

and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all 

night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, 

"saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer." This is not to be confused 

with "Dead ringer", an idiom in English denoting a person or thing that 

closely resembles another which dates back to the 19th century. This was 

exemplified in the film by that name which starred Bette Davis (link below).     

 

Meat Loaf made a film titled Dead Ringer which was a promotion for his second 

album, Dead Ringer and featured the song, Dead Ringer For Love, The video for 

this song featured Cher (link below).     

       

          

Be grateful you live now!          

          

 

          

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20,000 vinyl LP 205: The Latin Rascals ~ 12" of Macho Mozart (Disco Daze 5)

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The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

12" vinyl single album cover detail

On the 27th of January, in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. He composed music and performed before European royalty from the age of five.    

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, possibly by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni; 

painted in 1763 on commission from Leopold Mozart

The Latin Rascals celebrated Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in 1986, with this 12" single, Macho Mozart, which was played at discos in New York and San Francisco. The song is based on the third movement, Alla turca, of the Piano Sonata No. 11 written by Mozart, in 1783, It is also known as the Turkish Rondo or The Turkish March.    
       

The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

12" vinyl single album front cover

        
   

The Latin Rascals is a duo organized by Tony Moran, a DJ, record producer, remixer, singer and songwriter, and Albert Cabrera in 1981.        

The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

12" vinyl single album back cover

Moran has worked with Madonna, George Michael, The Cover Girls, Laura Branigan, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Selena Gomez, Cher, Gloria Estefan and Donna Summer.          

The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

12" vinyl single album back cover detail

The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

12" vinyl single record

The Latin Rascals ~ Macho Mozart

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Tracklist:

side 1:

A1     Macho Mozart (12" Version)     6:40
A2     Macho Mozart (Bonus)     2:17

side 2:

Macho Mozart (Dub 1)     7:47
B1     Macho Mozart (Dub 1)     7:47
B2     Macho Mozart (Dub 2)     5:10

Credits:

    Arranged By – A. Cabrera*, T. Moran*
    Co-producer – Gary Rottger
    Mixed By, Edited By – The Latin Rascals
    Producer – Latin Rascals Productions, Inc.*

Notes:

Another pressing exists with different labels (Side A and B instead of Side 1 and 2).

Contains arrangements of 'Rondo A La Turk' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Original Version on 'Bach To The Future'     

The Latin Rascals ‎– Macho Mozart
Label: Tin Pan Apple ‎– 885 567-1
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Freestyle
     
       
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20,000 vinyl LPs 173: The Andromeda Strain soundtrack cover

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
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This article is ONLY about the album cover for the The Andromeda Strain soundtrack, part of my series, “Just the cover, ma’am!” (link below); there is another entry for complete info about the album (link below). The album has the usual 12" square profile but the housing attached to the front of the cover holds the vinyl LP record, which has its own surprise, and is designed like the shutter of a camera. I don't know of another album with this configuration.     

 

Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
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The jacket cover is by graphic designer, Virginia Clark, with assistance by sculptor, Joel Shapiro. Clark designed the album cover for Black Mass by Lucifer (Mort Garson) as well as Big Black, Cher, Neil Diamond, Yvonne Elliman, Rick Nelson, Saddhu Brand, Sony & Cher, Roger Williams and many others (link below). The collage photography is by Ruth Corbett. The jacket cover was printed by Bert-Co Enterprises.    

Gil Melle ~ 
The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP album cover with shutters open

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I love the hexagon shape of the 10" vinyl LP record; I think it's totally cool. The plastic record sleeve has a label with a warning to the owner to beware of damage to the needle if not played properly.        

Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
10" hexagon vinyl LP record 

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP hexagon record warning

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP front cover shutter detail

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP front cover shutter detail

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP front cover shutter detail

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
vinyl LP front cover shutter detail

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
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The Record

Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
10" hexagon vinyl LP record, side 1

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
10" hexagon vinyl LP record label, side 1

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
10" hexagon vinyl LP record, side 2

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Gil Melle ~ The Andromeda Strain soundtrack
10" hexagon vinyl LP record label, side 2

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Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Wildfire - 2:41
A2 - Hex - 3:57
A3 - Andromeda    - 2:33
A4 - Desert Strip - 4:14
Side 2:

B1 - The Piedmont Elegy - 2:22
B2 - Op - 2:43
B3 - Xenogenesis - 2:40
B4 - Strobe Crystal Green - 4:45

Credits:

    Engineer – Alan Sohl, Gordon Clark, Terry Brown
    Producer, Composed By, Arranged By – Gil Mellé

Notes:

LP is hexagon -shaped and comes housed in an elaborate folded pod-shaped sleeve. 

Gil Mellé ‎– The Andromeda Strain (Original Electronic Soundtrack)
Label: Kapp Records ‎– KRS-5513
Format: Vinyl, 10", LP, Album, Shape, Hexagonal
Country: US
Released: 1971
Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style: Experimental, Soundtrack

         
          
     
         
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Gil Mellé ‎– The Andromeda Strain (original electronic soundtrack)



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