OMG CHER IS SO AWESOME!!! CHER - GYPSYS TRAMPS AND THIEVES (REACTION)

[@harpergras]

" Half Breed " and " Dark Lady " are two of Cher`s best songs...And they tell a great story...You both will love those two songs.

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Yesssss!

[@GinMae]

Hey, Michael - just reiterated your recommendations.. all the best!

[@lindziodowd8609]

Yess!

[@VelveteenRabbitinRedFern]

YES!!!

[@gbh5912]

Only 3 solo songs she has that are good

[@sandraatkins2539]

Thank you for giving Cher her props. Yes she could sing and she was absolutely stunning.

[@aleatharhea]

You can tell she's really singing this. No lip sync

[@laurastormgarcia4353]

❤️❤️ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 LOVE LOVE LOVE CHER!!! 👏🏼👏🏼 ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ 🥰❤️ S and M HIT SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️

[@GinaGeeILuvu]

Cher was always very stylish in those Bob Mackie gowns! She and Sonny had a TV show and then after they split she had her own show! The seventies was full of these storytelling type songs, sometimes movies were even made from the song like Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler or Dolly Patton’s song, Coat of Many Colors! Sometimes the song told a true story like Dolly’s and sometimes not like Kenny’s!❤️❤️

[@delisamarchetti5926]

I especially loved watching Cher in the 70's I always thought she was so glamorous and beautiful. Her style is timeless. She was also very funny and has great comic timing. Then when she became an actress she was amazing. She is certainly what they call a triple threat. My favorite movie she did , was Moonstruck.

[@kimberlygabaldon3260]

I don't think her daddy was selling soda pop. I think he was selling what they used to refer to as "snake oil," (cure-all). Sonny and Cher did some fun, novelty songs. If you're interested in hearing them, try: "Bang Bang," and "A Cowboy's Work is Never Done," (sung by both Sonny and Cher, and it's hilarious)

[@bodiespizza]

Excellent accompanying song to this. Orlando Riva Sound -- Indian Reservation Video HQ

[@andrewmerrick1951]

You can't go wrong with Cher! "Half Breed", "Dark Lady " are two more of her classic ones of course you can't go wrong with "Turn Back Time", "Jessie James", or "I've found someone " Everything Cher does is amazing!

[@Rebel9668]

Bang, Bang is another classic of hers even though she re-did it in the late 80's.

[@kimsherrell2866]

Cherokees people hope you play it one day

[@Dollywood623]

I agree with all the songs mentioned. I would like to add “Take Me Home” which also had one of her best album cover photos I’ve ever seen. Hey what about “Do You Believe”. She was my music hero growing up. Never missed an episode of “Sonny and Cher” and after their divorce, “The Cher Show”. The comedy skits showed the great comedic timing she had. Don’t forget Oscar winner for “Moonstruck”. Fantastic in “Mask” and Oscar nomination for “Silkwood”. 🔥🔥🔥

[@Rebel9668]

@@Dollywood623 Or I think even The Witches of Eastwick...if I remember right.

[@Dollywood623]

@@Rebel9668 oh yea I forgot about that one. So good!

[@dianemiller8969]

The cycle continued.... listen where she says; three months latter I'm a girl in trouble and I haven't seen him in awhile. then she says; "She was born in a wagon of a traveling show, she (Now Cher) had to dance for the money they threw .. as, her father is a grandpa and she had a little baby girl to support."!

[@samuelgates5935]

Very good and deeply insightful observation.. I had just thought that scrolling down, the second verse came up, along with your comment... universal karma 🤗🤗🤗

[@belkyhernandez8281]

I never noticed.

[@dianemiller8969]

@@samuelgates5935 Yep!

[@scottys1423]

I always wonder how many listeners miss that change from the 1st to the 3nd verse. There's a similar shift in Jim Croche's song Cats in the Craddle about missing all the time with his kid growing up. The last verse changes to "when you coming home son?"

[@livashlin]

Cher's voice and singing style makes her, in my opinion, one of the best performers of "story-songs". And this song is arguable one of her best. Love it so much.

[@george217]

"Snake Oil", not soda pop. And she's probably wearing a wig. I don't know if she still does, but she used to own a line of wigs and during her shows would change wigs quite often along with her costumes.

[@MichelleCWeber]

I knew a man who was her wig tender.

[@chicochi3]

Cher was well known for her costumes and her wigs. She regularly used wigs because that hair couldn't be processed and changed fast enough for a show.

[@candywright64]

@@chicochi3 I recall that Bob Mackie was her costume designer.

[@Vikinggirl1679]

Please please do Cher's hit song "Half Breed" the live version where she's sitting on the horse.. Great song. Her outfit in that will blow you away.

[@tvgator1]

YESSSSSSS!

[@theConquerersMama]

Yesss...

[@theConquerersMama]

I treasured my Cher doll and so wanted to create that look.

[@tonycg9952]

love the video and song

[@ursulabklyn_mia6148]

So the town talked smack about them but then would come at night to lay their money down. The 16 year old got pregnant 3 months later and the 21 year old took off. So just like her the child was born in the caravan and now the 16 year old had to dance. The cycle continues.

[@theConquerersMama]

Exactly

[@tonyrussi7777]

This was Chers' first record without Sonny as Producer. It was written by Bob Stone & Produced by Snuff Garrett. BIG HIT. 1970's.

[@simplenough]

Amazing lyrics

[@mlbw1966]

I remember her singing this song on the Sonny & Cher show. It was just Cher's single. During the Sonny and Cher show, Cher had quite a free singles ... she started out shy, the duets with Sonny... but later on, the Sonny and Cher show she did sing her early single hits. I REMEMBER THAT!!

[@chrisrees7054]

It sure was a big hit. I remember it well..

[@marinamartinez6886]

Cher was the first woman on TV who was dressed to the nines every week and with a different hairstyle. She had beautiful long, long hair but definitely used wigs and still does. Walking in Memphis is another great song of hers. 👍👍👍

[@SweetThing]

You should hear the version of "Walking in Memphis" by the man who wrote it; Marc Cohn and had a big hit with it. I have never even heard Cher had a version of it.

[@bradsullivan2495]

"Half Breed" and "Dark Lady" are two more of her classics. She laso had a great duet with Meat Loaf, "Dead Ringer" that's well worth a reaction.

[@meganbezio4320]

I think Mel will love Jesse James too.

[@mikemiller3069]

You guys are probably too young to have heard the phrase "a gal in trouble". It is a reference to being pregnant. It was different times back then. There was a lot of judgement/condemnation of girls/women who got pregnant out of wedlock. Women would often move to another town if she was "in trouble". The guy (if it was known who he was) was expected to "do the right thing" (i.e. marry her) and "make an honest woman out of her". People would say, "they HAD to get married" or it was referred to as a "shotgun wedding". In Aerosmith's song, "Walk This Way", he says, "you can't catch me cause the rabbit done died" meaning that the woman was pregnant and he was outa here. It's all part of the "good old days" that weren't so good. 😒

[@MichelleCWeber]

Even in the 80s.

[@Music_Lover26]

Well said. Truth.

[@theConquerersMama]

Adding on to this. Back in the day before the pee stick pregnancy tests, it involved going to the doctor and a blood test I won't go into detail with but if the rabbit died - that was a positive pregnancy test.

[@Dee-JayW]

@@MichelleCWeber Absolutely! I got pregnant “out of wedlock” at 19, in 1982. You would have thought by the reaction of my family that I was a serial killer! (They are Roman Catholic) I was told I would destroy the family name, ruin the family reputation and to get married. So I did. Not in church though, but I was pressured to have a church “Blessing” to somehow make it official in their eyes. If one person, one friend or family member had offered a kind shoulder or advice, I never would have married. I felt I HAD to make it work since I was the problem. So I stayed 17 years in a very abusive marriage ( I never fought back, wasn’t raised with violence or alcoholism) had 4 children so no escape. He wanted to Kill us but in the end he died by suicide. Im still recovering with Complex PTSD and have had 2 of my 4 kids have drug issues and prison time. Now I Know he was a narcissist and verbally, physically, emotionally and sexually abused me and the only time I stood up to him was when he would try to go at the children.

[@SweetThing]

@@Dee-JayW - so sorry for all you had to go through, Deborah. :(

[@maureenwagg5305]

Love Cher. She was on my TV for years! Still going strong and still gorgeous.

[@PatiAnn]

He sold booze n fake medicine not soda pop lolz

[@RLucas3000]

I think they were joking about that It’s funny, as a kid, I heard the line as “sell a couple Bibles, and doctor good”, as con men sometimes sold Bibles (see the movie paper Moon , and Trump’s current scam), and he could do some healing in small communities without a doctor, or for folk too poor to afford a doctor

[@maryellengabler802]

The last verse is about HER daughter..the cycle continues.

[@sandragray4598]

The music in this song is so haunting. The sadness is that it's about the cycle of poverty and told kind of in the same way The Ghetto by Elvis was told. The narrator herself was born into this cycle, and then after she became 'a gal in trouble,' her daughter was then born into the same situation. This song used to make me cry and feel hurt in my heart.

[@dagmar.6954]

I grew up with Sonny & Cher's music & their TV show. Sonny wrote their hits in the 60's including "Baby Don't Go", "I Got You Babe", "The Beat Goes On" & "Little Man". He also wrote the song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" which Cher recorded in 1966. Other songs she did were "Half-Breed" & "Dark Lady". Cher went on to have a big solo career.

[@drycanyon]

Baby don’t go was great

[@breckrichardson390]

I will add "A Beautiful Story" to that -- a great song that doesn't get enough attention.

[@descendantoffools9767]

Those were great times! All those variety shows; Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Captain and Tennille....

[@pasnipes]

Congratulations Dagmar! “I got you babe” is legend!

[@joankisloski6972]

Cher is in my top 5 women I admire along with Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Loretta Young, Kathrin Hepburn. She has beautiful long raven hair but also wore many wigs on her shows.

[@kerryknight228]

Cher and Tina Turner sing a song called “Shame, Shame, Shame” that’s fire! ✌️

[@georgehinojosa5059]

I liked it better by Tna. (Solo)

[@sarablack2547]

Yes I've seen that one on here.it's on Cher's show and they wear the same dress different colours.

[@Citizenesse8]

Sonny and Cher of course had a show and Bob Mackie did a lot of the clothes for her. They were phenomenal outfits.

[@Dee-JayW]

Yes, Bob Mackie was a genius, his work on the Carol Burnet show was stunning!

[@Citizenesse8]

@@Dee-JayW yeah I'm a big fan of The Carol Burnett Show too. Those gals were stunning as well even though the only thing popping up in my mind right now is the curtain gown skit.

[@Dee-JayW]

@@Citizenesse8 went with the wind!! Classic! 😂😂😂

[@stacymoore9836]

True story! Elvis Presley had one of his guy’s call her and asked her for a date. She turned the invitation down. On David Letterman he asked why did she turn him down because that was Elvis! She said yeah I know, but she was too nervous to go out with him because he was Elvis.

[@patsalas5170]

Cher...that unique voice, great style and demeanor...will forever be an icon.♥️

[@lazarolopez5410]

Another song you guys should listen to from the same era, Barbra Streisand's Stoney End.a great song.

[@treeoflifewisdomacademy304]

Laura Nyro Stoney End

[@stacymoore9836]

Grandpa sold medicine with liquor 😂

[@clarionblur]

Everything Cher ever did was awesome.

[@juliewhite7469]

Amen to that !! Love her !!!

[@arthurestrada2682]

She is a National treasure 🪙

[@kathyembley455]

I used to watch the “Cher” show and I remember watching her debut this song on her show!!!!🔥❤️

[@pasnipes]

Hi beautiful couple! This song teaches us not to look down on folks - live that! I remember vividly swinging on our backyard swing in Cheltenham, GLOS UK and singing along to this when I was about 13! Good days! I was raised on 60s music - in my teens through Disco and Motown and ABBA! So lucky! I live in So Cal now and drive past Chers house in Malibu almost every Saturday. I have lots of stories and requests for you!

[@stacymoore9836]

When this song came out back in the early 70’s I was probably 10 or 11. I’m 61 now. We always watched the Sonny and Cher show.

[@bessc8558]

There is a lot to unpack with this one, lol.

[@CHX_37]

"soda pop" - yep, that is what it was. You will never get this tune out of your mind, by the way.

[@davidthompson7485]

Cher was an icon with the outfits - skimpy outfits! She was way confident!

[@theConquerersMama]

I treasured my Cher doll

[@lisalipschutz2550]

Love her all her music movies she is great love ya ,,

[@stacymoore9836]

Cher is half Serbian that’s why she has those beautiful exotic looks. That I wish I could’ve had. Even in her 70s she still rocking it. I’m a big Cher fan she’s timeless.

[@stacymoore9836]

@Penderyn Cher’s birth name is Sherilyn starkasian

[@nozecone]

@Penderyn Wiki: "Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American ... ; her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), ... claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry."

[@georgehinojosa5059]

Cher - The Way Of Love Sonny and Cher - Baby Don't Go

[@laurakali6522]

Please watch the movie Mask. She was amazing in it.

[@christopherscorner]

Cher is a fantastic storyteller! Here are more… Dark lady, carousel man, half breed and Dixie. She is so good! By the way, you two are really cute.

[@wjmascitello]

Hahaaaaaaaaa Good choice guys! Grandpa Gypsy selling 'Dr. Good': alcohol or narcotic-based "medicine" that was sold before prescription days and would have been illegal during Prohibition...

[@deborahcornell171]

This is from the TV show that Sonny & Cher had in the early 70's. In the 60's they had been hippie icons. By the early 70's Cher had gone glamorous, wearing Bob Mackey designer gowns every week on their show. I saw them in concert around that same time. Cher came out in a tight scarlet evening gown with her hair straight & shiny (& down to her rear). She looked stunning & sounded great. Sonny looked dapper in a tux & was really funny. He & Cher were hilarious together. What a great team they were.💙☮💙

[@michellec8841]

Cher!!!!!!!!! Loved her with Sonny & still love her now. Legenday She us gorgeous in the Half Breed video. But then again, she always is

[@mildredpierce4506]

4:00 three months later she’s a gal in trouble means she was pregnant and the guy was gone. Her daughter was born in a traveling show, just like she was.

[@cellynn4702]

A very smart women and very down to earth offstage.

[@toodlescae]

This was clipped from the Sonny & Cher tv show in the 70's. She used a lot of wigs because she would change hairstyles 2 or 3 times a show while it was being filmed in front of a live audience.

[@kenyonsgirl415]

Jesse James is another great Cher song!

[@warrenburlingame1172]

She's still as beautiful today

[@bayblues5623]

Great reaction to great artist.. give cher halfbreed a look too.. its brilliant

[@warrenpeterson6065]

Cher, born in 1946, turns a drop dead gorgeous 75 this year. The most beautiful woman on the planet in my opinion. Sonny, born in 1935, unfortunately died in 1997 at 62 when Cher was 51. Sonny met Cher when she was just a school girl and married her. Was Sonny one of the Men who came around and laid his money down?

[@dsusan17]

You have to do the video to Half Breed!

[@juliewhite7469]

Please react to Cher & The Jackson 5 's medley "I Want You Back", performance from her show. ❤

[@leec5170]

OMGoodness, you need to see Cher at age ? She did some of her best work in Burlesque.. Type in, "Welcome To Burlesqe". It's amazing!

[@johnsaldana8667]

Druggies, Drunks and Thieves is more like the way I grew up..,

[@seiraeiramasil2302]

This song came out in 1971, written by Bob Stone and produced by Snuff Garrett. This was Cher's first solo hit. It was said that she didn't care for this song, actually, it shows in her lack-luster performance in this video, I could've sworn she hit a flat note as well. If you listen to the studio version, you'll see what I mean. You can just tell by her demeanor while doing this song, she wasn't into it. Well, despite it not being one of her better performances, I still enjoyed watching this reaction video, thanks!

[@nozecone]

Well, she's straining to get some of those higher notes - her voice isn't at its best here, I'd imagine.

[@merlinathrawes746]

Mainly because this particular song hit too close to home for her. Given that it's amazing she even recorded or performed it.

[@andibay3736]

Mel, YOU are Gorgeous too!! Inside and out. You guys reactions are such a joy to watch. Even if the music isn’t something you 100% enjoy, you always find the good in it. Do you have appreciation for the art! 💖🙏

[@johnthegreek5836]

This is one of Cher’s number 1 hits with many more to come, she a Icon

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Please check out her song “Halfbreed.” 🔥 I had the hand me down record in like 1st grade- loved the beat- as I got older. I understood the lyrics, of course- Tells more of her story and how things were for her-- PLEASE do it-💖💙👍✌️

[@lisaray9944]

Oh Half Breed is another good song actually you can’t go wrong with any song of Cher’s she’s an ICON in my world ….

[@NItalia-lk3sj]

The song describes the life of a girl, the song's narrator, who was "born in the wagon of a traveling show" with her mother, an exotic dancer, and father, a patent medicine salesman and preacher. Though the family endures jeers of being "gypsies, tramps and thieves" from townspeople, the men of the town would always come out at night to "lay their money down." One day, the family takes in a 21-year-old man who travels with them from "just south of Mobile" to Memphis. One night during the trip, the man implicitly has intercourse with the 16-year-old narrator without her father knowing, and three months after the man disappears in Memphis, the narrator is "in trouble" (pregnant). The narrator's daughter is born later, now the narrator is the dancer and now Grandpa did whatever he could (as now he is the grandfather of the narrator's new baby) continuing another generation of Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves. If you listen to the studio version the song it is a better understanding of the story of the song.

[@joelliebler5690]

A one of a kind with so many varied hit songs!

[@suedyment511]

Watched Cher Every Week , Love Cher ♥️ she is One of a Kind , Half Breed

[@petezavala8153]

This lady is definitely one of the greatest female entertainers of our time. She keeps her audience dancing and cheering 👍😊

[@chrisdavis7617]

Its a shame everyone listens to her remake of it years later.

[@shunter4826]

You’ve got to watch the Halfbreed video of her in all the feathers on horseback.

[@anessalyn1035]

please check out Cher's video Half-breed

[@davidtullis2810]

Cher emulated Elvis in her outfits. The more flamboyant the better

[@flutesong5527]

I am absolutely sure her wig collection is worth a cool million, she's always fabulous

[@edwardbardlett6943]

I absolutely love Cher. This song is one of my favorites, but you've got to react to Dark Lady.

[@lyriasfaves]

"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me"... still has the pipes.

[@deanmaynard8256]

Sonny and Cher had to go to the UK to make it big as they were a "mixed race couple" - they became so big there they came back to America in triumph and could really rub it in the noses of the racists who held them back.

[@robborra8071]

Dark Lady is the story song you wanna listen to... \m/

[@theConquerersMama]

Her natural hair is so gorgeous. She also fully embraces wig life. Her clothes for the Sonny & Cher show were by the great Bob Mackie who also dressed Carole Burnett at the same time. Cheer just had the perfect body and attitude for his vision. I adored her as a kid. I loved my Cher doll and outfits.

[@jeffmande4671]

I was a little kid back then so I wasn't walking around thinking oh Cher you look hot. But now that I see this, Cher you look stunning. ( more than hot) lol

[@Rebel9668]

That's adorable how y'all think that's her real hair, lol. She has as many wigs as Dolly Parton, LOL!

[@sharonjarrett8953]

Cher ‘If I Could Turn Back Time”

[@paulmason6474]

Bob Mackie the fashion designer has made her costumes for decades

[@lisalipschutz2550]

Do more music of her keep it going .

[@womanonthinice1276]

Cher wore lots of wigs. She was always edgy. Looks good in everything she wears.

[@ajruther67]

Half Breed by Cher Live on a horse in Indian dress

[@kimsherrell2866]

Cherokees people is my favorite of hers hope to hear it one day on her

[@wallacelambert9308]

Cher has been BADD ASS for 60 years

[@leeyaferguson9019]

My fav is HALFBREED!!!

[@suzanneprock7286]

Love this song, brings back great junior high school memories. We use to watch the Sonny & Cher show every Sunday night just to see her outfits.

[@dalesands1857]

She was in a movie called Silkwood...based on a true story.

[@drycanyon]

Everybody should see Silkwood.

[@jomiiller6297]

Must check out half breed

[@Cheryworld]

Poppa wasn't selling soda pop

[@meganbezio4320]

I knew you'd love it! ❤

[@dennisflury6942]

YOU MUST!!!! DO DARK LADY !

[@joannetyndall3625]

I love you two and your positivity.Am fighting cancer and you cheer me up daily xx

[@kathrynkissane5144]

God bless Cher. She is just herself.

[@deegomez2089]

I've been watching reruns of Sonny and Cher. They are super entertaining. Sonny was severely underrated for his talents and contribution, not only to Sonny and Cher, but to alot of other artists 🎵🎶

[@MySherry10]

Cher has a terrific voice , no denying that and she was so cool I thought growing up. she had it all

[@ajruther67]

For this album, Cher left her husband Sonny. The song was written by Bob Stone, and produced by Snuff Garrett. Releases in 1971.

[@matthewhicks8140]

Y'all radiate positive vibes, I always love watching y'all's videos! Love from Georgia!

[@bencolquitt7828]

WOW!!! Cher she's great great reaction guys.

[@mamb70]

Definitely my favorite song by her, hard to believe it's 51 yrs old. I still believe she's underated, ranks up there with Ann Wilson of Heart, Dusty Springfield, Linda Ronstadt. She's part Indian. The song Half Breed is probably about her tho not sure. Great timeless song!

[@kylesummers1565]

Not a Cher fan as a person, but...Great song, very talented artist! Peace, Love!