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Cherished

Field	Value
name	Cherished
type	Album
artist	Cher
cover	Cherished.jpg
released	June 4, 1977
recorded	19761977
studio	Larrabee North (North Hollywood, California)
genre	Pop
length	29:19
label	Warner Bros.
producer
prev_title	I'd Rather Believe in You
prev_year	1976
next_title	Two the Hard Way
next_year	1977
misc	{{Singles
name	Cherished
type	studio
single1	Pirate
single1date	1976
single2	War Paint and Soft Feathers
single2date	1977

the Cher album

Cherished is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on June 4, 1977 as Cher's final studio album released by Warner Bros. Records. This album, like several other predecessors, was a commercial failure and failed to chart. The album was promoted by the release of the lead single, "Pirate" which charted at #93 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a second single, "War Paint and Soft Feathers" which failed to chart. "Pirate" was the only single from the 70s Warner era to chart despite the album being her lowest selling album of her entire career.

Album information

Cherished was the last Cher studio album produced by Snuff Garrett. Although The Cher Show was a top 10 ratings hit, the 1975-77 period was unsuccessful for her, and Cherished did no better than its predecessors, Stars and I'd Rather Believe in You. The album sold very little, failed in the charts and was ignored by critics and fans. Also, Cher was dissatisfied with the final results of the album, and in an interview, she said that she never enjoyed making this album and only made it because of the contract deal with Warner Bros.

The style of the record recalls past hits "Dark Lady" and "Half Breed". Cherished is also Cher's first album without her name on the cover because the title of the album is a pun of the Cher name.

Two unsuccessful singles were released. The first was "Pirate", which reached #93 in Billboard. This song was also the first track on some versions of I'd Rather Believe in You, and in Australia the track was retitled "Images". A follow-up to "Pirate", "War Paint and Soft Feathers", did not chart.

As with her other two Warner Bros. releases, Cherished has never had a legitimate reissue in any format. According to Billboard, Cher owned this album's master rights and Warner had no right to reissue. However, in August 20, 2021, Cher released all 11 tracks, "restored and remastered", on her YouTube channel.

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times noted that "Cher is pleasant but again unchallenged by the material." Cash Box said that her collaboration with Snuff Garrett gave the album "a kind of 'welcome home, good-to-be-back' feeling increasing the appeal of a lady who seems to have an abundance of that quality already," and that even "though her vocals are strong and emotion-filled, it is indeed the sounds on the outer edges that give this album its delicate audio shadings, that like the colors in an Impressionist painting, highlight the subject matter in a carefully-woven intricate pattern."

Track listing

Personnel

Cher - lead vocals
Steve Dorff, Al Capps - arranger, conductor
Snuff Garrett - record producer
Lenny Roberts - sound engineer
Randy Tominaga - assistant engineer
Taavi Mote - assistant engineer
Harry Langdon - photography

References

(June 4, 1977). "Billboard. The International Music-Record-Tape Newsweekly". Billboard Magazine.
(2002). "The Cher Scrapbook". Citadel Press.
(2008-07-25). "Ask Billboard: Sharing Cher On CD".
{{AllMusic
(Sep 25, 1977). "Pop Album Briefs". Los Angeles Times.
(August 13, 1977). "Album Reviews".

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