Sher-oo!

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Sher-oo! | type = Album | artist = Cilla Black | cover = Sher-oo!.jpg | alt = | released = 1 April 1968<ref>{{cite magazine|date=16 March 1968|title=Cilla...Tour, film and new album|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Disc/1968/Disc-&-Music-Echo-1968-03-16.pdf|magazine=Disc and Music Echo|page=8|access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> | recorded = 1967/1968 at EMI Studios, London | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop, Merseybeat, soul | length = | label = Parlophone/EMI | producer = George Martin | prev_title = Cilla Sings a Rainbow | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = The Best of Cilla Black | next_year = 1968 | misc = {{Singles | name = Sher-oo! | type = studio | single1 = Step Inside Love | single1date = March 1968 }} }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r30769|pure_url=yes}}|title=Sher-oo! – review|accessdate=2011-07-14|work=Allmusic.com}}</ref> }} '''''Sher-oo!''''' is Cilla Black's third solo studio album, released on 1 April 1968 by Parlophone Records. The album reached No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cilla Black: Artist Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10866/cilla-black/ |publisher=Official Charts |accessdate=15 May 2020}}</ref> The album's Paul McCartney-penned lead single "Step Inside Love" reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was the opening theme tune to the first four series of the BBC TV variety show ''Cilla''. The album was re-issued in the 1970s with different cover art and re-titled ''Step Inside Love'', on the EMI Music For Pleasure (MFP) label.

==Re-release== On September 7, 2009, EMI Records released a special edition of the album exclusively to digital download. This re-issue features all of the album's original recordings re-mastered by Abbey Road Studios from original 1/4" stereo master tapes. A digital booklet containing original album artwork, detailed track information and rare photographs will be available from iTunes with purchases of the entire album re-issue.

==Track listing== '''Side One''' # "What the World Needs Now is Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) # "Suddenly You Love Me" (Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri, Lorenzo Pilat, Peter Callander) # "This is the First Time" (Doug Flett, Guy Fletcher) # "Follow the Path of the Stars" (Doug Flett, Guy Fletcher) # "Misty Roses" (Tim Hardin) # "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" (Barrett Strong, Roger Penzabene, Cornelius Grant)

'''Side Two''' # "Yo Yo" (Joe South) # "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" (Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) # "Step Inside Love" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) # "A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme)" (Francis Lai, Pierre Barouh, Jerry Keller) # "I Couldn't Take My Eyes Off You" (Bobby Willis, Clive Westlake) # "Follow Me" (Paddy Roberts)

==Credits== '''Personnel''' * Lead vocals by Cilla Black * Produced by George Martin * Arranged and conducted by Mike Vickers * Album cover photograph by John Kelly

== Chart positions == {| class="wikitable" !align="left"|Chart (1968) !align="left"|Peak position |- |align="left"|UK Albums Chart |align="center"|7 |- |}

== References == <references/>

==External links== * https://web.archive.org/web/20091001204350/http://cillablack.com/music-sheroo.htm CillaBlack.com Discography – Sher-oo! *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081107213819/http://www.emimusic.co.uk/ EMI Music Official Site] *{{IMDb name|0085226|Cilla Black}}

==Further reading== * {{cite book | last = Black | first = Cilla | author-link = Cilla Black | title = What's it All about? | publisher = Ebury Press | year = 2004 | location = United Kingdom | isbn = 0-09-189035-7 }} {{Cilla Black}} {{Authority control}}

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