NEW * I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher {Stereo} 1965

1965.......#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #1 UK Singles Chart, #1 Canada, #3 Australia, #1 New Zealand, #7 France, #3 West Germany Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. “I Got You Babe“ is a song performed by Sonny & Cher and written by Sonny Bono. It was the first single taken from their debut studio album Look at Us. In August 1965, their single spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States where it sold more than 1 million copies and was certified Gold. It also reached number one in the United Kingdom and Canada. The session for the song was held on June 7, 1965 at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood and lasted between 2 and 5 PM. Musician Harold Battiste provided the instrumental arrangement. Richard Niles quotes Battiste as saying the prominent figure in the song is played on an oboe rather than an ocarina. In the United States, the song had sold more than 1 million copies in 1965 being certified Gold by the RIAA. As of November 2011, Billboard reported the digital sales of “I Got You Babe“ to be 372,000 in the US. In 2011, the song was named as one of the greatest duets of all time by both Billboard and Rolling Stone magazines. It was also listed at #444 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. But in a 2011 poll Rolling Stone readers ranked “I Got You Babe“ the eighth-worst song of the 1960s. In early 2017 the song has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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