Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Single by Cher
from the album The Sonny Side of Chér
B-side
ReleasedFebruary 25, 1966
RecordedFebruary 11, 1966
StudioGold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California
GenreFolk rock
Length2:44
LabelImperial
Songwriter(s)Sonny Bono
Producer(s)Sonny Bono
Cher singles chronology
"Where Do You Go"
(1965)
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
(1966)
"Alfie"
(1966)
Audio
Cher – "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" on YouTube

"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" is the second single by American singer-actress Cher from her second album, The Sonny Side of Chér (1966). It was written by her husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966. It reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week (behind "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers), eventually becoming one of Cher's biggest-selling singles of the 1960s.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Cher – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 – Week of April 23, 1966". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.