Original Hits (1998)

About this title: This 18-song collection is the only compilation of Cher's Liberty-Imperial work available as of early 1999, and it's good, though not ideal -- some fine album tracks are here, along with several of her singles ("You Better Sit Down Kids," "A Young Girl," "Sunny," "Bang Bang"), but not "All I Really Want to Do." What you do get are her cheerful Phil Spector-style folk-rock covers of other Dylan songs ("Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Blowin' In the Wind"), numbers associated with Jackie DeShannon ("Needles and Pins"), Ray Davies ("I Go to Sleep"), and Tom Jones ("It ... read more

Tracks:

1. You Better Sit Down Kids [Bono]
2. I Go to Sleep [Davies]
3. Needles and Pins [Nitzsche/Bono]
4. Like a Rolling Stone [Dylan]
5. A Young Girl (Une Enfante) [Aznavour/Brown/Chau]
6. Blowin' in the Wind [Dylan]
7. I Feel Like Something's in the Air [Bono]
8. Sunny [Hebb]
9. Come and Stay With Me [DeShannon]
10. The Bells of Rhymney [Davies/Seeger]
11. Our Day Will Come [Hillard/Garson]
12. Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies) [Bono]
13. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) [Bono]
14. Until It's Time for You to Go [Sainte-Marie]
15. It's Not Unusual [Mills/Reed]
16. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [Wickham/Napier-Bell]
17. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Dylan]
18. Cry Myself to Sleep [Gordon]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.