''Backstage'' is the fifth album by American singer-actress

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, released on May 27, 1968 by Imperial Records. This album was her first commercial failure, failing to chart. The album is by-and-large a covers album.

Album information

''Backstage'' was released in 1968, was produced once again by

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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 to produce no hit singles.http://chernews.blogspot.com/p/biography-page-i.html " The Click Song" and "Take Me For A Little While" were released as singles, but they did not chart. Ten of the 12 tracks were also issued in 1970 as an LP on Sunset Records (Liberty Records' budget subsidiary) as ''This Is Cher'' (the songs "A House is Not a Home" and "Song Called Children" were not included). In this year Cher recorded two other 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''. In 2016, the song "It All Adds Up Now" was used in the

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advertising campaign, with the title of the song being used as the company's slogan. This was following the success of an

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's hit " Little Man", evoking the public's interest in Cher's early 1960s work.

Track listing

Personnel

* Cher –

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

Production * Sonny Bono –

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* Harold R. Battiste, Jr. – record producer * Denis Pregnolato – record producer * Stan Ross – sound engineer Design * Sonny Bono –

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* Woody Woodward – art direction

References

External links

Official Cher site

* {{Authority control 1968 albums Cher albums Liberty Records albums Imperial Records albums Albums arranged by Harold Battiste Albums produced by Sonny Bono Albums produced by Harold Battiste Albums recorded at Gold Star Studios 1960s covers albums