Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection

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Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection
Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection cover
Compilation album by Cher
Released Jan 26, 1999
Recorded 1971 - 1973
Genre Pop
Label MCA
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 3/5 stars [1]
Cher chronology
Believe
(1998)		 'Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection
(1999)		 not.com.mercial
(2000)

[edit] Album Info

Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection is a 1999 Cher compilation album. This compilation most prominently features Cher's 1973 Bittersweet White Light album. The rest of the album features Cher's overlooked and underrated hit singles from the '70s for example "The Way Of Love" and "David's Song".


[edit] Track listing

  1. "By Myself" (Schwartz/Dietz) - 3:29
  2. "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (Ellington/Webster) - 3:54
  3. "Am I Blue" (Clarke/Akst) - 3:47
  4. "How Long Has This Been Going On" (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 4:23
  5. "The Man I Love" (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 4:27
  6. "Jolson Medley: Sonny Boy/My Mammy/Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (Jolson/DeSlyva/Schwarz/Young/Brown/Henderson/Lewis/Donaldson) - 4:16
  7. "More Than You Know" (Rose/Eliscu/Youmans) -3:44
  8. "Why Was I Born" (Kern/Hammerstein II) - 2:45
  9. "The Man That Got Away" (Arlen/Gershwin) - 4:13
  10. "What'll I Do?" (Berlin) - 2:29
  11. "The Long and Winding Road" (Lennon, McCartney) - 3:13
  12. "Greatest Song I Ever Heard" (Holler) - 2:51
  13. "David's Song" (Paich) - 3:25
  14. "It Might As Well Stay Monday (From Now On)" (Chandler) - 3:02
  15. "Don't Try To Close A Rose" (Greco) - 2:46
  16. "He'll Never Know" (Lloyd, Sklerov) - 3:27
  17. "The Way Of Love" (Dieval, Stillman) - 2:30


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Cher
Studio albums
All I Really Want to Do (1965) · The Sonny Side of Cher (1966) · Chér (1966) · With Love, Cher (1967) · Backstage (1968) · 3614 Jackson Highway (1969) · Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971) · Foxy Lady (1972) · Bittersweet White Light (1973) · Half-Breed (1973) · Dark Lady (1974) · Stars (1975) · I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) · Cherished (1977) · Take Me Home (1979) · Prisoner (1979) · Black Rose (1980) · I Paralyze (1982) · Cher (1987) · Heart of Stone (1989) · Love Hurts (1991) · It's a Man's World (1995/96) · Believe (1998) · not.com.mercial (2000) · Living Proof (2001/02) · Cher's Forthcoming album (2008)
Compilations
Cher sing The Hits (1967) · Cher's Golden Greats (1968) · Greatest Hits (1974) · Bang Bang & Other Hits (1992) · Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 (1992) · The Casablanca Years (1994) · If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits (1999) · The Greatest Hits (1999) · Bittersweet: The Love Songs Collection (1999) · Half Breed/Dark Lady (1999) · The Millenium Collection (2000) · The Way of Love: The Cher Collection (2000) · The Very Best of Cher (2003) · Gold (2005) · The Best of Cher: The Imperial Recordings 1965-1968 (2007)
Soundtracks
Alfie (1966) · Chastity OST (1969) · Roller Boogie (1979) · Foxes (1980) · Mask (1985)  · Chances Are (1989) · Days of Thunder (1990) · Mermaids OST (1990) · Walk on the Moon (1999) · Stuck on You (2003)
Other albums
Live Albums & Videos
Cher Extravaganza: Live at the Mirage (1992) · Live in Concert (1999) · VH1 Divas 1999 (1999) · VH1 Divas 2002 (2002) · Cher: The Farewell Tour (2003) · Live! The Farewell Tour (2003/04) · Live at the Mirage(DVD release) (2005)
Music Video & Others
Cherfitness - A New Attitude (1991) · Cher - The Video Collection (1992) · Cherfitness - Body Confidence (1992) · The Very Best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection (2004)
Tours
Two the Hard Way Tour (1978) · Take Me Home Tour (1979/81) · Live in Montecarlo (1980) · A Celebration at Caesar's Palace (1983)  · Heart of Stone Tour (1989/90) · Love Hurts Tour (1991/92) · Do You Believe? Tour (1999/2000) · Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002/05)  · Cher at the Colosseum (2008)
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