I don't care what critics said about the revamped post-divorce Sonny & Cher Show. Their chemistry is undeniable, they still sing great together, Cher looks better than she had in a while, and the comedy was funnier than ever!
For the audience, their jokes felt more real, their marriage jokes, nose jokes etc. after their divorce. The audience was hurt by it probably that’s why it didn’t last long like their comedy hour.
@@nanami436 I suppose that is true. But I was able to look past what was happening in their personal lives and just enjoy them as an entertaining duo. I do believe the first show was a little uncomfortable, but as the last season continued, I thought S & C were really good together once again!
I remember it hurting to watch them after the divorce. Cher filled out after the 2nd baby and looked great but it hurt to see them dig at each other. Sonny loved her. I wonder what happened? Maybe some people aren't meant to be with only person in a lifetime ? 😕
I've watched the shows after their divorce when they first aired, and I have to admit it hit me hard that they divorced, so I had a rather skewed way of looking at their shows after their divorce. I see them now, and realize they both were still very good together, had tremendous chemistry and yes loved each other, and the shows were packed with lots of talent, comedy and yes love. I think they were the best couple in show business. We were all just hurt and disappointed they got a divorce.
Oh, yes. That was the *Return of **_Sonny and Cher._* It was very nice with a more experienced Cher no longer under Sonny, had Control of her life, was Happy, and Remarried with a Son. *Her show was a Hit and signed on for Season 2,* but it was _Cher_ *who canceled her show* during Season 2 to *return to work with Sonny after his show Failed* after only 6weeks on the Air. _That was so Cool!_ I wish Sonny didn't say *_"Don't look at me when you say that."_* 4:20
@@katellaThat's because Cher never birthed any child. Go watch the video of Sonny and Cher singing It Never Rains in Southern California and you will understand why.
I so wish I could buy "Silly Love Songs" cover by Sonny and Cher. Alas, I think it was only performed for the shows appeal. They sing it so well, though!
Its so nice that after they divorced they still work together. I knew that she had a son named Elijah Blue Allman, from Greg Allman. The Allman Brothers. I didnt know she married him. This epispde was funny. Anyway, love them both. R.l.P Sonny. Watching it, 12/14/20. 9:40am
I have watched this vid a few times before but only now I noticed Sonny says "don't look at me when you say that" at 4:19, after the second "I love you" part because in the first she looked at him. I guess he was only joking but...
Interesting. While they were married, Sonny had a nervous tic where he would twist his wedding ring. In this clip, despite how long they had been divorced, he still did that.
I had a hard time watching these episodes when I knew they were divorced. I was and still am an Allman Bros. Fan. I was jealous of Gregg at this time lol
That dress is gorgeous! I never cared for there singing though. The early stuff was good! CHER's solo spots were the highlight. The duets with Tina Turner and different others was great! The skits were very funny!
Love Cher and must say for the record that Sonny did the heavy lifting in the beginning. Glad she came back after his passing to recognize his contribution.
She Contributed a lot herself and Sonny's heavy lifting was mentioned in many Episodes of the 1st _Sonny & Cher_ show by him a lot. Cher never took the Credit. It was the Fans that liked her more.
Sonny saw Cher as his golden goose .He admitted to it in a diary entry before the divorce .He was living with a girlfriend at the time and wrote that if they ended their marriage it would wreck what he had build up in " Sonny and Cher" the company .He actually owned Cher Enterprises .Cher had no say in any financial matters. Their post divorce attempt at a show flopped because they didn't have the magic anymore
Free speech: Wow did she look hot in this very rare footage unearthed from the Hidden Era of Tv. Her in that dress totally “edible”: no wonder they never even showed this in the 70s! Too racy for young audiences they decided for us.
I have read various accounts that Cher also had her own flings. People who worked on the 1969 movie Chastity that Sonny wrote & produced, said that she was involved with the male lead of the film during the making of it. Also, when she left him at the Vegas hotel in 1972, she spent the night with guitarist Bill Hamm. Neither did it all correctly, but their love for each other is undeniable. Cher said in an article Nov. 2018, of all the men she's been with over the years, she misses & loves Sonny the most & that "if he were to walk through that door right now, we would be Sonny & Cher again in about 2 seconds"
tpajay I’d rather trust the people involved themselves than rumors of people who worked around them. And even then, the truth of what happened probably lies somewhere in between, as is the case most of the time. However I will say that by Sonny’s own words, he admitted to cheating several times in his autobiography. The most he accuses Cher of is flirting with her Chastity costar - which if you consider her side of things, I don’t blame her. Also the Bill Hamm incident as described by Sonny - was that she told Sonny to leave the room so she could sleep with Bill, which in fact she did not do - even tho Sonny cheated on her again that night. I don’t find Cher’s actions there fully blameful or blameless. But it did always piss me off that in that made for TV movie supposedly based on Sonny’s book after he died, they played that scene out like she did sleep with him and made it out like Cher was a total bitch and the one to blame for everything. I hated that movie - full of inaccuracies. Sonny did control Cher also - but maybe that wasn’t even fully his fault because when they first met, she needed and even wanted that in her life. But she was 16 then, and she grew up. I think leaving Sonny was probably the hardest thing she ever did - I know it’s been alluded to, if not full out said, that she considered suicide over ending their marriage. They not only loved each other but they were dependent on each other - besides the fact that they were America’s sweethearts and a brand. And I also think Cher was very hurt when she found out that Sonny had literally made her an employee and not his equal. She had to leave him to grow up. But she’s acknowledged there would be no Cher without Sonny. And I think their relationship transcended anything as simple as married or divorced. Anyway, don’t know why I’m rambling to a two year old comment at 3:30am, but there you go!
@@JPSkyeBlue I'm going by Sonny's autobiography too about both of them &, like I said, neither of them did it all correctly. I never watched the movie because most bio movies have to embellish a little for more interest to the viewer. On various YT clips that can be seen with Cher and/or Sonny. (i.e. The Mike Douglas Show, Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson, Dinah, Ellen, etc.), Cher admitted that Sonny was controlling because he was Italian (her words on Ellen). In that era of time, men did control the business world for the most part & they were a business that Sonny wanted to keep relevant. I can remember rumors that he abused her & she said that in 11 years of marriage, she could only think of 3 times they actually yelled at each other & that he was "adorable". Sonny also said in an interview in 1988 on Later w/Bob Costas that they were never rude with each other. Cher admitted that she left Sonny because she wanted to make her own decisions; but when she hosted with Mike on The Mike Douglas Show in 1979, Mike asked her if she ever called Sonny about music advice when she was doing a new album & she said yes and he would be the first to hear her song. She said that she called him about advice on a lot of things that he should get paid for house calls (jokingly). Sonny's 3rd wife, Susie Coelho, said on a TV interview in 1999 that Cher called Sonny so much for advice that it put a strain on their marriage because she wanted it to be about Sonny & Susie and not Sonny & Cher anymore. In Cher's own words on Oprah (2002), she said that leaving Sonny was the hardest thing for her but then his death was even harder to deal with. Did they have a rocky relationship at times...... you better believe it! But both have said over the years (post divorce) that they still loved the other. My post was basically written because it's said that it was all Sonny's fault & I think blame could probably be a bit on both sides. Neither of my posts are a putdown of either of them because I'm a Sonny AND Cher fan & remember their songs being played on the radio in the 1960s & have all 34 episodes of The Sonny & Cher Show (post divorce) & all 67 episodes of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on DVDs. You get nostalgic when you get old about a lot of things and if I need a laugh, I'll watch a couple of the DVDs. No matter what.....they were great together! I'm surprised I didn't notice your response until just now & responding late night too,
@@tpajay oh the movie didn’t embellish, it had an obvious agenda (in my opinion). It was intended to paint Sonny in a perfect light and paint Cher as a bitch. I love them both too and 100% agree that their relationship was complicated at best - and that they loved each other in their own way until Sonny died and then even after. Cher’s grief after his death was heart wrenching and so very real. She may have talked over the years about how much he still meant to her post divorce - but I don’t think she even fully realized it herself until she lost him. I just get defensive when people accuse her of cheating on Sonny - because even by his admission, she did not. I think her biggest fault in the relationship was growing up and out of it - obviously out of her control. She had needed Sonny to run everything when she was 16, but she wanted some independence at 27 and Sonny didn’t know how to reconcile with that. I don’t fault him for that - people grow and change. And I don’t really fault him for making Cher an employee of Cher Enterprises because I believe he really did think they’d be together forever and he’d take care of her. I don’t know that she would’ve sued over “involuntary servitude” if not for David Geffen. But I do fault him for the infidelity. Anyway, after years and years of knowing the story of their breakup and hearing them both talk about it in interviews, it wasn’t until seeing the Cher Show musical on Broadway that I really fully thought on a human level how difficult and incredibly brave that decision was for her to leave him. So difficult that she seriously considered ending her life over ending the marriage. To be faced with the concept of America literally hating her for breaking up America’s sweethearts. Thank God for Lucy - to be a real life example of doing the same thing and coming out stronger on the other side. It’s not like there were many others. Certainly not like today. As a human and as a woman, I feel incredibly proud of her for doing what she had to do for her, even if it was the hardest thing she’d ever done. But yes, they had a magic unlike any other - and love watching all their old shows together too. Love watching the implicit trust she has in him in her young eyes when they sing together in their very early performances and we know how terrified she was. Love watching them crack each other up when her dress zipper keeps coming down as she laughs during an opening monologue on the Sonny & Cher Show, pregnant with Elijah. And I don’t think without the other, either of them ever would have been famous and certainly not the same people they grew to be. ❤️
Obviously Cher never birthed children. If you watch the video of Sonny and Cher singing It Never Rains in Southern California you will realize why they named their alleged daughter Chastity.
They were great together and that is the Cher look I always thought was beautiful.!!!!!! RIP to Sonny Bono!!!!
I will always love this woman. What a beauty and an amazing Talent !!!
I remember watching this show with my mom back in 76 I was 3 years old.
I don't care what critics said about the revamped post-divorce Sonny & Cher Show. Their chemistry is undeniable, they still sing great together, Cher looks better than she had in a while, and the comedy was funnier than ever!
I totally agree. I used to watch their old show back in the day, and when they returned (after having solo programs), it was so much better!
For the audience, their jokes felt more real, their marriage jokes, nose jokes etc. after their divorce. The audience was hurt by it probably that’s why it didn’t last long like their comedy hour.
@@nanami436 I suppose that is true. But I was able to look past what was happening in their personal lives and just enjoy them as an entertaining duo. I do believe the first show was a little uncomfortable, but as the last season continued, I thought S & C were really good together once again!
I remember it hurting to watch them after the divorce. Cher filled out after the 2nd baby and looked great but it hurt to see them dig at each other. Sonny loved her. I wonder what happened? Maybe some people aren't meant to be with only person in a lifetime ? 😕
@@lorimiller4301 he was so controlling and ig he cheated on her several times that’s why
So hard to watch them NOT look at each other, when they sing the words, "I Love You."
She is flawless. Loved every incarnation of this show.
I just loved Sonny as a kid and continued to as an adult...he was just so adorable!!!
I've watched the shows after their divorce when they first aired, and I have to admit it hit me hard that they divorced, so I had a rather skewed way of looking at their shows after their divorce. I see them now, and realize they both were still very good together, had tremendous chemistry and yes loved each other, and the shows were packed with lots of talent, comedy and yes love. I think they were the best couple in show business. We were all just hurt and disappointed they got a divorce.
I so agree. The fact they can sing a song like this together with humour and great chemistry even after their divorce is great to see
Cher`s so beautiful.
CHER IS A GODDESS!!😍😍😍😍💕💕💕💕💕🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@alexanicolejoel2168 Facts 💯
I remember watching them on original show! I loved them than and now❣️
This episode aired the day I was born :)
How incredibly relevant this is today!
We were all so young ....!!
Thank for lovely Cher.
RIP Sonny! You are very missed by this Fan
She looked like that after Chastity's birth too
She loved him until and after his death.
He loved her til' the end as well. He was always loved her, just too Controlling, and turned their marriage into more of a Business.
Thanks so much for posting these!
Oh, yes. That was the *Return of **_Sonny and Cher._* It was very nice with a more experienced Cher no longer under Sonny, had Control of her life, was Happy, and Remarried with a Son. *Her show was a Hit and signed on for Season 2,* but it was _Cher_ *who canceled her show* during Season 2 to *return to work with Sonny after his show Failed* after only 6weeks on the Air.
_That was so Cool!_
I wish Sonny didn't say *_"Don't look at me when you say that."_* 4:20
Cher looks so incredible post birth of Elijah
Shes gorgrous, love her.
She looked like that after Chastity's birth too
Cher is gorgeous pre birth, post birth, and fifty years later as well.
@@katellaThat's because Cher never birthed any child. Go watch the video of Sonny and Cher singing It Never Rains in Southern California and you will understand why.
thanks for this!!!!
I so wish I could buy "Silly Love Songs" cover by Sonny and Cher. Alas, I think it was only performed for the shows appeal. They sing it so well, though!
They perform this song with Donny & Marie on another S&C episode. It's very good! It's on the DVD set.
I wish I could have seen the whole show...Bummer!
Its so nice that after they divorced they still work together. I knew that she had a son named Elijah Blue Allman, from Greg Allman. The Allman Brothers. I didnt know she married him. This epispde was funny. Anyway, love them both. R.l.P Sonny. Watching it, 12/14/20. 9:40am
Cher never had children.
Cher still loved Sonny, though.
I have watched this vid a few times before but only now I noticed Sonny says "don't look at me when you say that" at 4:19, after the second "I love you" part because in the first she looked at him. I guess he was only joking but...
wow
It's so sad they should have stayed together
@@donnalombardo212 why?
Interesting. While they were married, Sonny had a nervous tic where he would twist his wedding ring. In this clip, despite how long they had been divorced, he still did that.
i hear if someone does that to there ring is cause they either bored or nerved or they showing people they are married idk if it true though
I had a hard time watching these episodes when I knew they were divorced. I was and still am an Allman Bros. Fan. I was jealous of Gregg at this time lol
That dress is gorgeous! I never cared for there singing though. The early stuff was good! CHER's solo spots were the highlight. The duets with Tina Turner and different others was great! The skits were very funny!
ALWAYS WATCHED THIS SHOW, ARCHIE, RED ,CAROL EVEN DONNIE AND MARIE. JT FROM MEX AND GEORGE AND WEEZIE, OOPS. ALSO KID DYNOMITE
Love Cher and must say for the record that Sonny did the heavy lifting in the beginning. Glad she came back after his passing to recognize his contribution.
She Contributed a lot herself and Sonny's heavy lifting was mentioned in many Episodes of the 1st _Sonny & Cher_ show by him a lot. Cher never took the Credit. It was the Fans that liked her more.
Cher never looked better!
There's no denying that they were great together...... on stage at least.
On stage and in life for a while until the later years of the marriage.
How does she look THAT good post birth? I look pregnant now and I have never had a child.
She looked the same after Chastity too
@@donnalombardo212 that is what post birth implies my friend hahah
@@iamsimplybee I understand I just meant she never gained weight
It's her genetics and also she worked alot. She has always been thin.
@cr8luck yes, what is your point
Dang how big is that bed lol
Hope slays
That opening proves that show business, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows.
Loved the opening of the show.
They would have been bound on a contract yes that’s show business..
They truly had the most beautiful divorce in history
Cherilyn Sarkisian Lapierre Bono Allman!
And then in 1975 she had it legally changed to just Cher
Hi Cher//I met Sonys first daughter//He learned music in that family//The daughter was sent to Patton State Mental Hosp//Hit Broke Jaw/
Sonny looked way cuter with the stache !!
Yes I agree!! They should have stayrd together!
The censors left the building in the opener. Hard to believe what couldn't get past them 20 years eariler
Cher looks pretty damned good, for just having had a baby.
Ditto💯💯💯💯💯💞💞
Sonny saw Cher as his golden goose .He admitted to it in a diary entry before the divorce .He was living with a girlfriend at the time and wrote that if they ended their marriage it would wreck what he had build up in " Sonny and Cher" the company .He actually owned Cher Enterprises .Cher had no say in any financial matters.
Their post divorce attempt at a show flopped because they didn't have the magic anymore
So he used her?
I don't believe he used her
I think sunny looks plum miserable. Makes me sad
Thatsss myyy t8mwwwww
I think he is Ringo somtimes.
I love, Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere
God is wooiiwww
Cher's hand claps are always off beat
I think those are more anxiety claps than rhythm claps
Suny and shere go way back before this
6:21 umm wtf 💀🤣
Free speech: Wow did she look hot in this very rare footage unearthed from the Hidden Era of Tv. Her in that dress totally “edible”: no wonder they never even showed this in the 70s! Too racy for young audiences they decided for us.
How did he get there?
You can tell Cher had her breast implants done.
You can tell Cher had just given birth to her son 2 months prior. Not implants!
@@Tagg63 yes, I was thinking the same thing.. she was more voluptuous because of motherhood.
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The break up was Sonny's fault. He cheated on her and gave her no control.
I have read various accounts that Cher also had her own flings. People who worked on the 1969 movie Chastity that Sonny wrote & produced, said that she was involved with the male lead of the film during the making of it. Also, when she left him at the Vegas hotel in 1972, she spent the night with guitarist Bill Hamm. Neither did it all correctly, but their love for each other is undeniable. Cher said in an article Nov. 2018, of all the men she's been with over the years, she misses & loves Sonny the most & that "if he were to walk through that door right now, we would be Sonny & Cher again in about 2 seconds"
@@tpajay thanks for the post, I'm happy that Cher said that. I still think about Sonny and I know it wasn't an accident. He was a good guy.
tpajay I’d rather trust the people involved themselves than rumors of people who worked around them. And even then, the truth of what happened probably lies somewhere in between, as is the case most of the time. However I will say that by Sonny’s own words, he admitted to cheating several times in his autobiography. The most he accuses Cher of is flirting with her Chastity costar - which if you consider her side of things, I don’t blame her. Also the Bill Hamm incident as described by Sonny - was that she told Sonny to leave the room so she could sleep with Bill, which in fact she did not do - even tho Sonny cheated on her again that night. I don’t find Cher’s actions there fully blameful or blameless. But it did always piss me off that in that made for TV movie supposedly based on Sonny’s book after he died, they played that scene out like she did sleep with him and made it out like Cher was a total bitch and the one to blame for everything. I hated that movie - full of inaccuracies. Sonny did control Cher also - but maybe that wasn’t even fully his fault because when they first met, she needed and even wanted that in her life. But she was 16 then, and she grew up. I think leaving Sonny was probably the hardest thing she ever did - I know it’s been alluded to, if not full out said, that she considered suicide over ending their marriage. They not only loved each other but they were dependent on each other - besides the fact that they were America’s sweethearts and a brand. And I also think Cher was very hurt when she found out that Sonny had literally made her an employee and not his equal. She had to leave him to grow up. But she’s acknowledged there would be no Cher without Sonny. And I think their relationship transcended anything as simple as married or divorced. Anyway, don’t know why I’m rambling to a two year old comment at 3:30am, but there you go!
@@JPSkyeBlue I'm going by Sonny's autobiography too about both of them &, like I said, neither of them did it all correctly. I never watched the movie because most bio movies have to embellish a little for more interest to the viewer. On various YT clips that can be seen with Cher and/or Sonny. (i.e. The Mike Douglas Show, Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson, Dinah, Ellen, etc.), Cher admitted that Sonny was controlling because he was Italian (her words on Ellen). In that era of time, men did control the business world for the most part & they were a business that Sonny wanted to keep relevant. I can remember rumors that he abused her & she said that in 11 years of marriage, she could only think of 3 times they actually yelled at each other & that he was "adorable". Sonny also said in an interview in 1988 on Later w/Bob Costas that they were never rude with each other. Cher admitted that she left Sonny because she wanted to make her own decisions; but when she hosted with Mike on The Mike Douglas Show in 1979, Mike asked her if she ever called Sonny about music advice when she was doing a new album & she said yes and he would be the first to hear her song. She said that she called him about advice on a lot of things that he should get paid for house calls (jokingly). Sonny's 3rd wife, Susie Coelho, said on a TV interview in 1999 that Cher called Sonny so much for advice that it put a strain on their marriage because she wanted it to be about Sonny & Susie and not Sonny & Cher anymore. In Cher's own words on Oprah (2002), she said that leaving Sonny was the hardest thing for her but then his death was even harder to deal with. Did they have a rocky relationship at times...... you better believe it! But both have said over the years (post divorce) that they still loved the other. My post was basically written because it's said that it was all Sonny's fault & I think blame could probably be a bit on both sides. Neither of my posts are a putdown of either of them because I'm a Sonny AND Cher fan & remember their songs being played on the radio in the 1960s & have all 34 episodes of The Sonny & Cher Show (post divorce) & all 67 episodes of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on DVDs. You get nostalgic when you get old about a lot of things and if I need a laugh, I'll watch a couple of the DVDs. No matter what.....they were great together! I'm surprised I didn't notice your response until just now & responding late night too,
@@tpajay oh the movie didn’t embellish, it had an obvious agenda (in my opinion). It was intended to paint Sonny in a perfect light and paint Cher as a bitch. I love them both too and 100% agree that their relationship was complicated at best - and that they loved each other in their own way until Sonny died and then even after. Cher’s grief after his death was heart wrenching and so very real. She may have talked over the years about how much he still meant to her post divorce - but I don’t think she even fully realized it herself until she lost him. I just get defensive when people accuse her of cheating on Sonny - because even by his admission, she did not. I think her biggest fault in the relationship was growing up and out of it - obviously out of her control. She had needed Sonny to run everything when she was 16, but she wanted some independence at 27 and Sonny didn’t know how to reconcile with that. I don’t fault him for that - people grow and change. And I don’t really fault him for making Cher an employee of Cher Enterprises because I believe he really did think they’d be together forever and he’d take care of her. I don’t know that she would’ve sued over “involuntary servitude” if not for David Geffen. But I do fault him for the infidelity.
Anyway, after years and years of knowing the story of their breakup and hearing them both talk about it in interviews, it wasn’t until seeing the Cher Show musical on Broadway that I really fully thought on a human level how difficult and incredibly brave that decision was for her to leave him. So difficult that she seriously considered ending her life over ending the marriage. To be faced with the concept of America literally hating her for breaking up America’s sweethearts. Thank God for Lucy - to be a real life example of doing the same thing and coming out stronger on the other side. It’s not like there were many others. Certainly not like today. As a human and as a woman, I feel incredibly proud of her for doing what she had to do for her, even if it was the hardest thing she’d ever done.
But yes, they had a magic unlike any other - and love watching all their old shows together too. Love watching the implicit trust she has in him in her young eyes when they sing together in their very early performances and we know how terrified she was. Love watching them crack each other up when her dress zipper keeps coming down as she laughs during an opening monologue on the Sonny & Cher Show, pregnant with Elijah. And I don’t think without the other, either of them ever would have been famous and certainly not the same people they grew to be. ❤️
Wow they really liked to move around in their relationships! I didn’t know they were so anti family!
That is jumping to a silly conclusion.
This is obviously after Cher's first breast procedure.
She just had a baby before this. You can see her hips got bigger too. I didn't know she had it done this soon after tho ?
@@lorimiller4301 She didnt. Its called breast feeding...
@@lorimiller4301 people's hips don't get bigger.
She didn't look that way after chastity was born
@@donnalombardo1135 I think chastity was 2 years old when they started sonny and Cher show. So she probably not breast feeding at that point.
Obviously Cher never birthed children. If you watch the video of Sonny and Cher singing It Never Rains in Southern California you will realize why they named their alleged daughter Chastity.