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"I Got You Babe" is a 1965 song written by Sonny Bono, the first single from the first album, ''Look at Us'', of the American pop music duo Sonny & Cher. In August of that year the single spent three weeks at #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States where it sold more than 1 million copies and was certified Gold. It also reached #1 in the United Kingdom and Canada. In 2011, the song was named as one of the greatest duets of all times by both Billboard and Rolling Stone magazine. It was also listed at #444 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. ==Background and composition== Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the lyrics to and composed the music of the song for himself and his then-wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. Session drummer Hal Blaine played drums for the song with other members of The Wrecking Crew supplying instrumental support. "I Got You Babe" became the duo's biggest single, their signature song, and a defining recording of the early hippie countercultural movement. Allmusic critic William Ruhmann praised the song: 'Recalling Dylan's bitter 1964 song "It Ain't Me Babe" (soon to be a folk-rock hit for the Turtles), Bono wrote his own opposite sentiment: "I Got You Babe." Where Dylan was lyrically complex, Bono was simple: His lyric began with the ominous youth-versus-grownups theme of "they" who set up barriers to romance, but soon gave way to a dialogue of teenage romantic platitudes. Where Dylan was musically simple, however, Bono, without fully rebuilding Spector's Wall of Sound, was more structurally ambitious, following the song's standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus form with an ascending coda that built to a climax, then started building again before the fadeout, all in only a little over three minutes. Set to waltz time, the tune retained a light feel despite the sometimes busy instrumentation, led by a prominent oboe played by Warren Webb.〔()〕 The alternating vocals alternate between the two singers and if neither were interesting singers, their plodding, matter-of-fact performances gave the song a common-man appeal.'〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher - Listen, Appearances, Song Review - AllMusic )〕 Bruce Eder highlighted the song on their 1965 ''Look at Us'' album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Look at Us - Sonny & Cher - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic )〕 In the United States, the song has sold more than 1 million copies in 1965 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. As of November of 2011, Billboard reported the digital sales of "I Got You Babe" to be 372,000 in the US. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Got You Babe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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