Cher

b. 1946 · American singer and actress · Imperial Records, 1966

Cherilyn Sarkisian was already half of Sonny & Chér when she recorded this on her own in February 1966, at the age of nineteen. The single was her breakthrough as a solo artist — No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 in the UK, and the first record of hers to sell a million. It appeared on her second solo album, The Sonny Side of Chér ↗.

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Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Recorded it first — now often credited to Nancy Sinatra

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