My Chérie Amour

Infobox Single
Name = My Chérie Amour


Artist = Stevie Wonder
from Album =My Cherie Amour
B-side = "I Don't Know Why I Love You"
Released= January, 1969
Format= 7" Single
Recorded= Hitsville USA; 1969
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 2:54
Label = Tamla
T 54180
Writer = Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby, Sylvia Moy
Producer = Hank Cosby
Last single= "For Once in My Life"
(1968)
This single= "My Cherie Amour"
(1969)
Next single= "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
(1969)

"My Cherie Amour" is a 1969 soul classic by Motown singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.

The song was originally recorded in 1966, but not released (it was subsequently remixed for release in 1969). Co-written by the singer, Henry Cosby, and Sylvia Moy, the song was an autobiographical account by Wonder about a woman he was fascinated with while in school at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, Michigan.

The song was originally written as "Oh My Marcia" but Moy told Stevie to change the name from Marcia to "cherie amour". The song became a #4 hit on both the "Billboard" pop and R&B singles charts in 1969. The song has been covered by fellow Motown act The Jackson 5, as well as by vocalists Andy Williams for his 1969 RIAA-certified gold album "Get Together with Andy Williams" and Billy Eckstine for his 1971 album "Feel the Warm".

My Cherie Amour is played on the Miss Dior Cherie commercial staring Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough.

A version was covered by New Zealand singer Tim Armstrong in 2006.

Infobox Single
Name = My Chérie Amour


Artist = Boney M.
from Album = Eye Dance
Recorded = 1985
Released = May 1985
Format = 7" Single, 12" Single
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:00 (7" mix) 8:51 (12" mix)
Producer = Frank Farian
Last single = "Happy Song" (1984)
This single = "My Chérie Amour" (1985)
Next single = "Young, Free and Single" (1985)

Boney M. version

"My Chérie Amour" was a single by German band Boney M., later included in their final album "Eye Dance" (1985). After two German Top 20-singles, "My Chérie Amour" was only a minor success, peaking at #55 in the German charts - the single was not released in neither Spain nor Japan. Producer Frank Farian got the idea to cover the song after Stevie Wonder had recorded in his studios in Rosbach. Like Boney M.'s previous singles, only new male member Reggie Tsiboe could be heard on the single, the backing vocals being done by studio session singers Amy & Elaine Goff. The B-side "Sample City" was sung entirely by Frank Farian and was written on the chords of "I Can't Stand the Rain".

Releases

7" Single
*"My Chérie Amour" - 4:00 / "Sample City" (Farian) - 4:00 (Hansa 107 350-100, Germany)

12" Single
*"My Chérie Amour" - 8:51 / "Sample City" - 4:15 (Hansa 601 686-213, Germany)
*"My Chérie Amour" (12" edit) - 8:30 / "Sample City" - 4:15 (Ariola 02.601686.27, Portugal)

ources

*http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/boney_m_