Single:
I Got You Babe entered the Australian singles chart* on 14 August 1965 and peaked at #3. The song was #22 on the Top 100 of 1965.
Album:
The song is on I Got You Babe which entered the Australian albums chart* on 9 October 1965 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Sonny Bono
Producer:
Sonny Bono
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Sonny & Cher singing I Got You Babe on The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, September 1965:
Wikipedia:
Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics and composed the song’s music for himself and his then-wife Cher late at night in their basement. When Cher was woken up to sing the lyrics, she hated the song and didn’t think it would soon be a hit and immediately went back to bed. But she came to like it after Sonny tweaked it.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_You_Babe
Songfacts:
This isn’t an anti-war song, but it went over well with the hippie crowd because it stuck up for guys with long hair when Cher sang, “Let them say your hair’s too long, I don’t care, with you I can’t go wrong.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/sonny-cher/i-got-you-babe
Lyrics:
They say we’re young and we don’t know
We won’t find out until we’re grown
Well I don’t know if all that’s true
‘Cause you got me, and baby I got you
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