Cher Disco Singles Questions

[EricHG23]

OK it's so hard to find decent Cher discographies...

We know that Cher released two disco albums 6 months apart on Casablanca in 1969--Take Me Home which consisted of:
Take Me Home
Wasn't it Good
Say the Word
Happy Was the Day we Met
Git DOwn (Guitar Groupie)
Love and Pain (Ballad)
Let This be a Lesson to You
It's Too Late to Love Me Now (ballad)
My Song (Too Far Gone) (ballad)

This is by far the better album--the Bob Esty disco tracks (he was arranger for much of Donna Summer's best stuff) still hold up especially take me Home (the album mix is 6:45) and Say the Word, with swirling eurodisco strings and strong vocals by Cher. The big surprise is how gorgeous the three ballads are, especially My Song which Cher wrote all by herself about her relationship with Greg Alman (sp?)

The second disco albumw as a bit more New Wave/Disco coming at the ned of the disco era, Prisoner and consisted of:
Prisoner
Holdin' Out for Love
Shoppin'
Boys and Girls
Mirror Image
Hell on Wheels
Holy Smoke
Outrageous

All uptempo tracks tho some not really very discoey at all (Shoppin has a 40s swing beat, Boys and Girls is just WEIRD and kinda like a Rocky Horror outake). The highlights are Pirsoner, Holdin out ofr Love and the cheasetastic Hell on Wheels which was the theme for the disco flick Roller Boogie. Anyway the album is fun in a cheasy way but nowhere near as strong as Take Me Home.

Cher also of course did the track Bad Love with Moroder for his Foxes soundtrack which is on the 2 CD Very Best album (and rocks--it's very much in his rock/disco style of the Bad Girls album)

Anyway Take me Home and Prisoner are combined on one now outa print CD, Casablanca Years. Many Cher fans don't seem tot hink much of these but I think the Take Me Home album in particular is necesary to any fan.

So my question (finally)--which of these were singles? And which had extended mixes?

I have on a Casablanca Disco collectionthe 12" of Take me Home which is only a minute longer (7:30) but has a bit more instrumentation and was speeded up a key to give it a faster beat--As much as I hate when they do that I vastly prefer the 12" as it has a bit more ennergy and a bit more of those great disco breaks.

I also have a 6:45 minute 12" for the softcore tastic Wasn't It Good which I thinkw as a club hit but not a radio hit liek Take me Home was.

Were there any other singles? I heard Prisoner was a big flop, but I think hell on Wheels and Say the Word got a lot of club play--anyone know of alternate mixes? longer ones?

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[Discovery]

The 12" of Hell on Wheels/Git Down (Guitar Groupie) has longer versions of both songs to enjoy. :)
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3704_0_2_0_C/
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/1168_0_2_0_C/

[FrontPage22]

"Holdin' Out For Love" was a 7" I know...lousy song if you ask me.

"Prisoner" the song was not bad but the whole album is patchy.

I didn't realize "Say The Word" got a single release..

[EricHG23]

Holding out For Love just has such a great sorta motown-ish chorus. not really a big dance song tho IMHO.

You're still around! just not on msn? :)

E

[peppertree5706]

We know that Cher released two disco albums 6 months apart on Casablanca in 1969--

Correction: The year was 1979 (a great year for disco).

I heard Take Me Home by Cher during the regular broadcast day on Friday on WLNG from Long Island.

It was the edited version, but it was nice to hear on live radio.

[EricHG23]

Ah of course i knew it was 79--typo. Thanks for the correction though

[EricHG23]

I thought I'd bump this as I was havign some musings on Cher's disco work recently.

What exactly went wrong? out of all the crossover acts it seemed liek Cher was tailor made for disco and particularly Casablanca's brand of disco. yet her albums (while I love them as I said above and think some of both are GREAT) seem rushed and she never became the disco star she shoulda--maybe she came too late to the scene?

I can't be in the minority of liking Cher's disco work (and I admit much of it is due to the underated Bob Esty)

E