Cher - All I Really Want to Do (1965) Vinyl and similar items

Catalog Number: LBY-3058 Condition Details: Import from UK. Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). High gloss cover has light-scuffing, surface impressions and creases (front/back); discoloration on back with darker discoloration spots: surface abrasion on front near bottom center. Inner-sleeve is original (poly-lined paper). Spine is easy to read with mild wear. Little shelf-wear along top/bottom edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use and a few divots. Initials written on one side of Cover. MONO pressing. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: All I Really Want To Do I Go To Sleep Needles And Pins Don't Think Twice, It's All Right She Thinks I Still Care Dream Baby The Bells Of Rhymney Girl Don't Come See See Rider Come And Stay With Me Cry Myself To Sleep Blowin' In The Wind About The Record: All I Really Want to Do, by Cher was produced by her then husband and singing partner, Sonny Bono, with contributions from arranger Harold Battiste. The album is by-and-large a collection of cover versions but does contain three songs written by Bono. Upon its release, the album was well received by critics and garnered positive reviews. On the album, Cher covered three songs written and performed by Bob Dylan, All I Really Want to Do, Blowin' in the Wind, and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right. The album contains the Bono-penned Needles and Pins, which was a hit for the British band, The Searchers, in 1963. The album also included Ray Davies' I Go to Sleep, which was later a hit in the UK for The Pretenders, and Cher's version of the traditional song, See See Rider, All I Really Want to Do has received positive reviews from music critics, with Tim Sendra, of the Allmusic website, giving the album four stars. Sendra also noted that the album features Sonny Bono "using his Spector-derived production skills to create rich, chiming backgrounds for Cher to sing over", and described the record as "one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era." Sendra went on to note that "Cher isn't the most subtle singer, but she sounds young and full of life on these tracks, like she really believes in what she is singing (a feeling you don't always get on her more lightweight material)." The original twelve track All I Really Want to Do album has never been issued on Compact Disc on its own and was a success on the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at No. 16.