Take Me Home (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Take Me Home
Type = Album
Artist = Cher


Released = January 25 1979
March 22 1999
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Disco/Pop
Length = 38:00
Label = Casablanca Records
Producer = Bob Esty and Ron Dante
Reviews = *Amazon.com (Rating|2.5|5) [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000J5QS Amazon.com: Take Me Home: Cher: Music ] ]
* Allmusic (Rating|2|5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0eb1z87ajyvj] |Last album = "Two the Hard Way"
(1978)
This album = "Take Me Home"
(1979)
Next album = "Prisoner"
(1979)
Misc = Singles
Name = Take Me Home
Type = studio
single 1 = Take Me Home
single 2 = Wasn't It Good
single 3 = It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)

"Take Me Home" is the fifteenth album by American singer-actess Cher, released on January 25 1979 [ [http://www.copyright.gov/records/ Official tracklist and Infos] ] by Casablanca Records. The RIAA certified it Gold on May 17 1979. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 4,500,000 copies.

Album information

"Take Me Home" was the first album of 1979, and was the first album released by "Casablanca Records".The record was produced by Bob Esty and Ron Dante, most of the text were written by Michele Aller and Bob Esty.This marked the beginning of Cher's brief venture into Disco music. Much to Cher's chagrin, she was pressured into recording a Disco album. From the album, came a major comeback hit, "Take Me Home". [ [http://www.cherscholar.com/recordreview.htm Revision for the album] ]

This is a nicely produced Disco album with smooth melodious tracks like "Say the Word" and "Let This Be a Lesson to You". The heartfelt belting on the ballad "Pain in my Heart" foreshadows a decade of rock ballads ahead and Cher even contributes a self-penned song about her failed marriage to Gregg Allman on the closing ballad "My Song (Too Far Gone)".

Sales of the album may have been boosted by the image of a scantily-clad Cher in a Viking outfit on the album’s cover. Take Me Home was also the first album, to have two tracks remixed: "Take Me Home" (12" Mix) and "Wasn't it Good" (12" Mix) [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/451474 Info about first two mixes] ] .In the credits of the album was also listened Gene Simmons, her boyfriend of the time. In the 80's Cher recorded another song with Simmons "Living in Sin".

Take Me Home has been released on CD together with "Prisoner", in a CD entitled, The Casablanca Years. This CD unites all the tracks from both albums, merging them onto one single CD, also the album was rereleased in 1991.

Promotion

To promote the album Cher recorded her very first music video, for Take Me Home. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6hlus0J1E Official Take me Home video] ] The video was aired in an exclusive show called ""Cher...and Other Fantasies".Also Cher had undertaken her first solo tour, The "Take Me Home Tour".Only two dates of the show were recorded, in Montecarlo and in the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.In the tour she performs only "Take Me Home" [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMc668T8xo Take me Home live in Montecarlo] ] , while the song "Pain in my Heart" [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkX4beVdfbs Pain in my heart live] ] was performed only in the Michael Douglas show.

Track listing

¹ Labeled as "Pain In My Heart" on LP and CD but "Love & Pain" on LP cover. [ [http://www.everythingcher.com/pages/99home.htm Info about CD and Vinyl] ]

In the 1999 CD "Take Me Home" and "Wasn't It Good" are both edited, and "Say The Word" isn't included.

Charts

Credits

Personnel

*Main Vocals: Cher
*Guitar: Jay Graydon
*Background Vocals in "Git Down (Guitar Groupie)": Gene Simmons

Production

*Producer: Bob Esty
*Producer: Ron Dante
*Engineer: Larry Emerine
*Engineer: Richard Bowls
*Project Coordinator: Janice Soled
*Compilation Producer: Wayne Olsen

Design

*Photography: Barry Levine

References

External links

* [http://www.cher.com Official Cher site]
* [http://www.casablanca-music.com Casablanca official site]