Backstage (album)
Encyclopedia
Backstage is the fifth album by American
singer-actess Cher
, released on July 1968 by Imperial Records
. This album was her first commercial failure, failed to chart. The album is by-and-large a covers
album.
with Denis Pregnolato and Harold R. Battiste Jr.
and was Cher's last album on the Liberty Records subsidiary, Imperial Records
.
The album was not a success and was her first with no hit singles. "The Click Song" and "Take Me For A Little While" were released as singles, but they did not chart.
In this year Cher recorded also others two songs: "Yours Until Tomorrow" and "The Thought Of Loving You". "Yours Until Tomorrow" was released as a single with "The Thought Of Loving You".
The album was re-issued on CD in 2007 along with the greatest hits release Golden Greats.
Production
Design
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer-actess Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
, released on July 1968 by Imperial Records
Imperial Records
Imperial Records is a United States based label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by label owner EMI.- The independent and Liberty Records years :...
. This album was her first commercial failure, failed to chart. The album is by-and-large a covers
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
album.
Album information
Backstage was released in 1968, was produced once again by Sonny BonoSonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...
with Denis Pregnolato and Harold R. Battiste Jr.
Harold Battiste
Harold Raymond Battiste, Jr. , is an American music composer, arranger, performer and teacher.He attended New Orleans' Dillard University, earning a B.S. in music in 1953. His first success as a studio arranger was with Sam Cooke’s "You Send Me" in 1957...
and was Cher's last album on the Liberty Records subsidiary, Imperial Records
Imperial Records
Imperial Records is a United States based label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by label owner EMI.- The independent and Liberty Records years :...
.
The album was not a success and was her first with no hit singles. "The Click Song" and "Take Me For A Little While" were released as singles, but they did not chart.
In this year Cher recorded also others two songs: "Yours Until Tomorrow" and "The Thought Of Loving You". "Yours Until Tomorrow" was released as a single with "The Thought Of Loving You".
The album was re-issued on CD in 2007 along with the greatest hits release Golden Greats.
Track listing
Credits
Personnel- Cher - lead vocals
Production
- Sonny Bono - record producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
- Harold R. Battiste, Jr. - record producer
- Denis Pregnolato - record producer
- Stan Ross - sound engineer
Design
- Sonny Bono - photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Woody Woodward - art direction