Dark Lady (song)
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| Single by Cher from the album Dark Lady |
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| Released | 1974 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1973/1974 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 3:27 | ||||
| Label | MCA | ||||
| Writer(s) | Johnny Durrell | ||||
| Producer | Snuff Garrett | ||||
| Certification | Gold (US) | ||||
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"Dark Lady" is a song released as a single in 1974 by singer/actress Cher. The song became Cher's third solo U.S. number one hit on March 23, 1974 and her last until "Believe" a quarter-century later.
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[edit] Song information and story
The "Dark Lady" of the song's title is a fortune teller. The narrator of the song learns that her lover has been unfaithful to her with, as the fortune teller says, "someone else who is very close to you." The narrator returns home in a state of shock and then realizes that she had once smelled, in her own room, the perfume the fortune teller had been wearing. She races back to the fortune teller's place with a gun and catches her lover and the fortune teller "dancing" , and shoots them both to death in a fit of rage.
In 1974, Dark Lady topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for one week becoming Cher's third solo number one hit. The song was also a number one hit in Canada and Sweden, a top ten hit in Norway and a top twenty hit in the Netherlands. Like Half-Breed, in Germany and the UK the song struggled, but managed to reach top forty status.
In 1999, Cher performed this song throughout her Do You Believe? Tour, for the first time in twenty-five years. In 2002, she performed the song 325 times in her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour.
[edit] Music video
The first Dark Lady video was a live performance by Cher. In this performance Cher was dressed in all black and was wearing a black veil on her head. The second video of the song is a cartoon video. This second video follows the whole story of the song.
In 2002, a special remix medley was created by Dan-O-Rama for a video montage that was used in Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. The medley contains the videos of "All I Really Want to Do", "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed" and "Dark Lady". Unlike the other videos "Dark Lady" was unique because both the live and the cartoon videos had been mixed.
In 1974, Finnish singer Lea Laven covered this song under the title "Tumma Nainen", and the song proved successful in Finland.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 3 |
| Belgian Singles Chart | 22 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Dutch Mega Top 50 Singles Chart | 17 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 11 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 10 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 36 |
| United World Charts | 1 |
[edit] Achievements
| Preceded by "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single March 23, 1974 |
Succeeded by "Sunshine on My Shoulders" by John Denver |
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