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February 11, 2026

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

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

Viewfinder links:

Michael Bolton

Jon Bon Jovi

Cher

Desmond Child
Mort Garson

David Guetta

Giorgio Tuinfort

Net links:

YouTube links:

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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December 3, 2023

20,000 vinyl LPs 341: Jaye P. Morgan ~ Just You, Just Me & Montezuma's Castle

Jaye P. Morgan ~ Just You, Just Me

vinyl LP front cover

photographer unknown

photo of front cover by Styrous®

Today is the birthday of American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist, Jaye P. Morgan, born on January 26, 1931, in the tiny town of Mancos in Montezuma County in Colorado at the base of Mesa Verde National Park, a place I've always dreamed of seeing for the cliff dwellings . . .

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

date & photographer unknown

. . . which contains the fabled Montezuma's Castle.

Montezuma's Castle

Montezuma Castle National Monument

photo by Beyond My Ken

In 1968 I was hitchhiking through the southwest and the car I was in drove by the ruins but the driver didn't want to stop; it's in the middle of the desert and I didn't want to get stranded there if I got out, so I didn't. I've always regretted that (John Kongos: "It's not the things you do, it's what you never get round to that make you sad!" link below).

But, back to Jaye P. Morgan. She got the nickname "Jaye P." after the banker J. P. Morgan. In 1953, she received an RCA Victor recording contract, and she had five hits in one year, including her biggest hit That's All I Want from You, which reached #3 on the chart. Her other hits included There's a Dream in My Heart by Rolande Maxwell Young, The Longest Walk and Pepper Hot Baby (link below).

Jaye P. Morgan ~ Just You, Just Me

vinyl LP back cover

illustrator unknown

photo of back cover by Styrous®

I like the almost infinitesimal bit of bubble in her voice but in all honesty, I like her upbeat songs the best; the ballads are mostly fifties-type orchestral arrangements that are, well, so fifties. To the credit of Marion Evans, he has grown since those days and worked with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga on their album, Duets.

There is a site (link below) that lists the album as "Cheesecake cover of the week" which had never occurred to me like that until I saw his remark. I thought, of course! And laughed!

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Just You, Just Me, written by Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages

A2 - I See Your Face Before Me, written by Howard Dietz-Arthur Schwartz*

A3 - The Song Is You, written by Oscar Hammerstein-Jerome Kern*

A4 - You Are My Lucky Star, written by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown

A5 - Why Shouldn't I, written by Cole Porter

A6 - Day By Day, written by Stordahl*, Weston*, Cahn*

Side 2:

B1 - Love Your Spell Is Everywhere, written by Edmund Goulding, Elsie Janis

B2 - (I Wanna Go Where You Go - Do What You Do) Then I'll Be Happy, written by Friend*, Brown*, Clare*

B3 - There's A Small Hotel, written by Lorenz Hart-Richard Rodgers*

B4 - As Time Goes By, written by Herman Hupfeld

B5 - Where Are You?, written by Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh

B6 - All I Do Is Dream Of You, written by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown

Companies, etc.

    Record Company – Radio Corporation Of America
    Copyright © – Radio Corporation Of America
    Copyright © – RCA
    Lacquer Cut At – RCA Studios, Chicago
    Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis

Credits:

    Conductor [Orch. Cond. By] – Marion Evans
    Featuring [With] – Marion Evans And His Orchestra
    Illustration [Back Cover] – R.R. (10)

Notes:

Label variation, with "'New Orthophonic' High Fidelity" text at right below side indicator, and title above center hole below Nipper the dog logo.

Serifed "I" stamped in runouts denotes RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis, pressing.

Title on labels, back cover, spines: Just You, Just Me

Catalog number LPM-1682 on front cover, back cover, spine, top spine.
Catalog number LPM 1682 on labels, spine (at bottom).

A2: (from the musical "Between the Devil")
A3: (from the musical "Music in the Air")
A4: (from the M-G-M film "Singin' in the Rain")
A5: (from the musical "Jubilee")
B1: (from the film "The Trespasser")
B3: (from the musical "Pal Joey")
B4: (from the film "Casablanca")

Front cover: © RCA Printed in U.S.A.
Back cover: © by Radio Corporation of America, 1958

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Side A label): J2PP-2813
    Matrix / Runout (Side B label): J2PP-2814
    Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): J2PP 2813 1S I 1A
    Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): J2PP 2814 2S I A2

Viewfinder links:

Marion Evans

Lady Gaga

John Kongos

Kongos

Pepper-Hot Baby

Net links:

Why It Matters ~ Cheesecake Cover of the Week

YouTube links:

Just You, Just Me links to songs below:

Just You, Just Me

I See Your Face Before Me

The Song Is You

You Are My Lucky Star

Why Shouldn't I

Day By Day

Love Your Spell Is Everywhere

(I Wanna Go Where You Go - Do What You Do) Then I'll Be Happy

There's A Small Hotel

As Time Goes By

Where Are You

All I Do Is Dream Of You

More info to come

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January 24, 2021

Lady Gaga articles/mentions

mentions:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Inauguration

Jaye P. Morgan ~ Just You, Just Me

Klaus Nomi

Lady Gaga - 2019

Elle magazine cover

photo by Sølve Sundsbø

Music People

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January 20, 2021

On TV 29: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. ~ 46th President of the US

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. & wife, Jill Tracy Jacobs

Kamala Harris & Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff - 2021

There was music . . .

. . . performers

Lady Gaga

sang the The Star-Spangled Banner

by Francis Scott Key

Fire Captain Andrea M. Hall

signed the Pledge of Allegiance

“I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America,

and to the republic for which it stands,

one nation under God, indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.”

Jennifer Lopez

sang a medley:

Woodie Guthrie ~ This Land Is Your Land

& Katharine Lee Bates ~ America the Beautiful

"Una nación bajo Dios, indivisible,

con libertad y justicia para todos".

Garth Brooks

sang: John Newton ~ Amazing Grace (A-capella)

And Amanda Gorman recited her poem,

The Hill We Climb

Rev. Silvester Beaman

gave the Invocation

Then Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in by Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. and inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, the second Catholic president of the United States . . .

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. -2021

. . . and Kamala Harris was inaugurated as the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president of the United States, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.

Kamala Harris - 2021

Pete Buttigieg (Mayor Pete) & Chasten Glezman, the first openly gay couple to attend a Presidential Inauguration.

Pete Buttigieg & Chasten Glezman during prayer - 2021

Kamala Harri - 2021

A grand parade followed

Along the way, Biden and his wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, got out of the car and walked the rest of the way to the White House.

Kamala Harri & Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff - 2021

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. & wife, Jill Tracy Jacobs - 2021

Kamala Harri & Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff - 2021

Of course, no inauguration is complete without fireworks! Katy Perry closed out the evening’s “Celebrating America” special with her song Firework (link below).