Sunday Songs: 1960s Cher sings her hits!

Cher, who performed this weekend at the Beacon Theatre as part of a benefit for the charity God’s Love We Deliver, marks 60 years of international stardom this year.

While most people are aware of her string of 1960s hits as part of the iconic duo Sonny & Cher (I Got You Babe, Baby Don’t Go, The Beat Goes On, among others), it doesn’t seem to be as well known that Cher launched a solo career simultaneously back then and enjoyed tremendous success.

Below are two of her solo top 10s You Better Sit Down Kids, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), and number 15 hit All I Really Want to Do. She also cracked the top 40 with her version of Alfie which is so terrific.

Her greatest solo successes were to lie ahead but damn, she was already so good all those years ago.

Cher’s career as a recording artist spans seven decades and she is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past seven decades. She has had a total of 34 top-40 hits, beginning with All I Really Want to Do in 1965 through DJ Play a Christmas Song in 2023.