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  • You are very,very hot and sweet as far as I can see/hear...Thanks

  • * s.w.c.*

  • Lol, all the Britney hate comments make me laugh. Can't you just enjoy the music? You can't say what someone else listens to sucks as a whole just because it sucks to you. Music is in the ears of the beholder.

  • Britney Spears was a Disney project gone wrong.Child Stardom meets Pop meets Rock N' Roll. Not to mention the fact that she became a sex icon at 16, and a millionaire a day later. However, she has managed to stay alive. Lessons learned? Mickey Mouse is Wicked Evil.

  • Ok I love Britney Spears (don't get me wrong, love me some Cher too), and I love both versions, but you can't even compare them. They're entirely different songs. There's only like 4 or 5 phrases of lyrics that are the same, the instrumentation is only slightly similar. They barely sound alike. I can't even say I prefer one version over the other because to me, Britney's version is more of a interpolation than a cover. And I love Britney, but to say she could top Cher is just plain stupid :)

  • When I heard this song in Britney Spears's album years ago I was sure it was a cover of an earlier song and just now I'm finding this one out..

    Britney's version is way better.. but what I don't understand is that tendency to receive a massive hostile reaction everytime someone expresses an opinion about a modern song or singer being better than ones from past decades..

  • @UntakenNick, don't be ridiculous. In the first place, the audio is a bit degraded here. Second, this is not the official Sonny & Cher version, but just something thrown together for their weekly television show. So you're not even comparing the right thing. Third, there's no way Britney's version is better than the original, official S&C version. NO way. Fourth, Cher is a legend who's been around 50 years. I kind of doubt we'll be seeing much of Britney even 10 years from now.

  • Britney's success has to do more with being surrounded by dancers and choreography and sound engineers manipulating her voice in the studio. Cher earned her cred the old fashioned way: sheer hard word and unique talent.

  • 6 year old janet jacksons is better

  • dang Cher was GORGEOUS here.

  • cher te amoooooooooooooooooo <3 <3 <3

  • The beat STILL goes on ! <3 :)

  • Wish we could see the house band, which included a teenage Jeff Porcaro. Maybe the shows will come out on DVD eventually . . .

  • And the beat goes on ...

  • I wish the original Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was available to purchase on DVD so we could enjoy it more ... I miss those days. They were good, funny, and the kid was a shy kid watching parents work hard.

  • Janet and randy jackson's version was cute lol

  • this was the best duo. love this song.

  • OH YEAH, REPLAY! 0:00

  • Just had to go and check out Britney's version after all the controversy on here.. It's a bit high school really, isn't it?

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  • I love Britney's version!! <3 I can respect Cher's version! But i grew up on Britneys!

  • Gosh! Cher was really cute!

  • If there's one thing this song shows, it's that the morning things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe it's time to change that in 2011. Be the Love ♥

  • I perfer Britney because I grew up with it, but I love this song still.

  • Brittany Spears covered this song? What a tart.  lol

  • In 1983 there was an incredible electro dance version by a group called Orbit.

    Look it up.

  • damn..cher use to be very hot...why the hell did she get all that plastic surgury???

  • @GrimeyeGrimes people get old.

  • @OMGodney without this you wouldnt even have britney doing the song.

  • What is it that I don't get but Brittany has no ear, she is not a natural born singer. I've heard her with an acoustic guitar and reality sinks in. American Idol is all she is. Phoney shit pisses musicians off. Anyways good for her! Sonny Cher rock!

  • Screamers version is best!

  • I have now in my player songs of Sonny and Cher , my classmates are hearing songs of Beyonse and Katy Perry

  • goddamnit cher was beautiful

  • amazing, from argentina.

  • @OMGodney "I Think You Suck"

    Thats how you write it

    If Your guuna try to insult me at least write them correctly

    Thanks ! (:

  • @OMGodney Naa iDont Thinkk iWill

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  • @OMGodney

    OMFG ! Wtf wrongg with youu ?

  • @OMGodney  Loved Amy Winehouse. Thought she was great and a million times more talented than Britney Spears. Cher is an icon...period.

  • @SS421982 thumbs up ! :DD

  • @OMGodney OK, "has been" was a little rough. I do like some of Britney's music. Also, happy that she's seeminlly cleaned herself up. Don't want another Amy Winehouse situation with Britney.

  • @OMGodney

    yeah um i just watched britneys version. you must be high. its ridiculous. an insult to them and this song.

  • Cher is hot! But I prefer the Macho Man version of 'the beat goes on'...lol

  • Okay so i may so that it is the orginal and the makes it amazing i may say. but growing up with Brittney she just take the cake to me.

  • Wow, who said that the Britney Spears version is better? I'm sorry, that's just stupid. Originals are almost ALWAYS better. There is only one exception I can think of is Red, Red Wine, by Neil Dimond.

  • @subjectalpha11 Wow, I didn't know Neil Diamond did Red, Red, Wine. No doubt, UB40 knocked that one out of the ballpark. I think it's funny that anyone would think ANY SONG is better by Britney, much less a classic like TBGO! I know we all have our opinions, but mine happens to be that Britney is a hack and already a has been.

  • @SS421982 I love Neil Diamond, but I agree the UB40 version of that song is superior.

  • @SS421982 Tony Tribe did the reggae version of Red Red Wine (1969) that UB40 copied.

  • @SS421982 There's no need to be rude. I don't think Britney's version comes close to the original but she's a big fan of Cher and it was a nice little tribute. Britney's still getting #1 albums and selling out arenas so she's hardly a has been.

  • @subjectalpha11 I agree with you on this one, I'm not a fan of Diamond's version of Red Red Wine, but I despise UB40's version- I love Jimmy James and the Vagabond's !! This original is by far better than The All I Seeing (although it's not that bad) and Britney's

  • @subjectalpha1 both versions are great, take the stick out your ass and enjoy the music

  • @subjectalpha11 YOU ARE RIGHT ! 100%

  • @subjectalpha11 Tina Turner's version of proud mary personally i like better than the original, but yeah britney spears is definitely not better than this

  • @subjectalpha11 Very true. That goes for most films as well...

  • @OMGodney Britney Spears? Yeah right, her music sucks.

  • @OMGodney ha ha, ok.

  • @JudgeJulieLit I agree with you. But actually many of the things Cher said were out of her mind. Yeah Sonny did write a script and he stuck to it but often she would wonder and say her own things. I think it worked better that she did that cause then he wouldn't have to fake like he didn't know what was coming and she didn't have to fake like she got him.

  • Love them BOTH and ALWAYS will!!!

    Sonny is up there writing songs already..too soon...and( still feel he was done in by more than SKI's)

    And let's face it.... When CHER is 90 someday, she will Still be THEE COOLEST Chick around!! Bar None!!!

  • Cher is smoking hot. Sonny God Bless You. See ya in the next one

  • SONNY I LOVE YOU<3 :'( Awwhhghh I wish he was still alive :( That guy had talent :')

    "You have hair in your eye." Lol so sweet x')

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  • Cher Is So Pretty:D

  • @SaikoMagiex Cool. It's a great big world full of different opinions...but this is the original. Without it, Britney would not have had the opportunity to sing it.

  • @SS421982 Got that right dude, this is soo good thanks for uploading

  • @SaikoMagiex i feel sorry for you :-(

  • Hot as fuck!

  • They were awesome baby!!!!!

  • My great nephew and niece who are four and three love this song. They want to listen to the beat (The Beat Goes On), the babe (I Got You Babe) and cherokkee (Half Breed) songs all the time. It is too cute.

  • Sonny and Cher always had such amazing chemistry between them. Even when they reunited on Letterman - years after they'd been divorced - the chemistry was still there. Still palpable. I believe they never stopped loving each other despite their problems. I used to love the way they looked at each other when they sang. Part of the act or not, you cannot fake the chemistry that exudes from those looks and touches they give one another.

  • @TheClassica87 You are definatly right about that. They are iconic.

  • the both sound like man girls

  • Sonny and Cher were such a great couple :) Like John and Yoko :)

  • before she got almost naked all the time

  • @yaystevie she still is!!

  • She was very shy and introverted when they met. He knew a ton of people and got her a job doing back ground vocals at a label until she was ready to roll. He made her...knew he lacked singing skills and signed on for the tv show. He was a very smart man.

  • She looks like she wants to kiss him. or that she wants him to kiss her anytime soon :-) she's drop dead gorgeous!!!!

  • @dollypartonmania - I so agree - amazing chemistry between them

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  • @aleafilover "that thing" love her so and make her so famous..

  • @aleafilover "that thing" love her so much and make her so famous..

  • @aleafilover that thing love her so much and make her so famous..

  • 6 people couldn't find the beat.

  • Classic Cocaine Music

  • the beat is still going on but we can't hear songs alike.

  • the beat goes on and we didnt start the fire.

  • they looked so in love back then. RIP sonny.

  • No matter what you think Sonny loved Cher and cared for her very much! This was their best song together!

  • holy shit she really was gorgeous!

    thats the definition of natural beauty right there.

  • is much better than britney's version!! totally!! i hate the britney's version, is so slow and boring, but i love THIS sonny's version!!!!!!

  • @BritneuJeanSpears Yes, Sonny's talent is underrated -- he was the mastermind behind most of their act. And as a performer he was charming, engaging, and a brilliant improviser . . . scripted the witty repartee between them, made her sound smarter than she then was. They were such a handsome couple, could look soigne as well as hippie. And both had powerful, adventurous, deeply sonorous voices (she still does) and sang with such deep sincerity. And their humor . . . a great neo-vaudeville act.

  • those cheek bones

  • LOVE it!! The real natural Great Talent!!!

  • What a ridiculous thing to say. She still looks great today!

  • She was so pretty.Nothing like today! She looks like scum today

  • @susisee11The Cher of today looks you with a big dick in your mouth.

  • wish i was alive bk in the 70's

    only 14 and Cher i luv you ur the best in the world

  • Omg they were both so amazing. RIP Sonny <3

  • Cher looks VERY young here -- and she was very hoarse during this song, not just her regular low voice.

    "the magic of the mis-match" was part of their charm

  • I never missed the Sonny & Cher Show. It was the best entertainment on TV in those days. Sonny couldn't hold a tune as well as Cher, but he had a wonderful sense of humor and could be very funny. Cher had a lovely voice and was, well, easy on the eyes. It never really came across very well, but Sonny Bono was a very smart man who knew the business long before Cher came into the picture. He has already written a couple of hits before he met Cher.

  • Strange for me, because I usually don't like english music --too many things hold me away... Anyway, I admit I like the sound and the rythm of this couple. But I can also understand that, with such a smoothly rolling music, they couldn't go very far in the rebelious era of the 60's.

  • Tengo and Hukaeri seem Sonny and Cher.They are the best duo.The Beat Goes On. From Book 2 in1Q84.

  • I always loved Cher's high cheekbones. My best friend is 1/4 Cherokee, and she has high cheekbones as well.

    This is for you, "Sister". LOVE YA.

    btw, did you follow my advice while in VT?.... about getting a leg up?

  • @TheBornAnnoyed One of my friends is 1/4 Cherokee too, and has high cheekbones! Them Cherokees... x)

  • @TheBornAnnoyed

    Yes, I was just thinking of that (about Cher's cheekbones), too. She is a strong build woman, and attractive.And also Sonny, he has a style.

  • cher is beautiful in this vid and now she hasnt aged much at all loove her

  • I LOVE THEM AND THE BEAT GOES ON...HAPPY NEW YEAR..YEAH..THE

    BEAT GOES ON....I PLAN TO BE IN THE BEAT THIS YEAR...

  • they are so cute<3

  • one thing:

    Cher is damn hot!<3

  • wow cher was really pretty back then.. she didnt need any surgeries

  • i adore this song!

  • What raw and wondeful voices!

  • i love it so much

  • I can't believe that Sonny Bono wrote this song and all they other songs.

  • deux couleurs : un bon timbre

  • Wow she was beautiful!

  • This is so cool. Their chemistry was great...

  • Cher is so hot in this vid.

  • she looks very pretty there. Looks so weird now with all that makeup.

  • @984GR oh honey, it aint make up... its surgeries!!!! and there, she was like in between, lots of knives had touched that face by then already ;) hee hee

  • LOVE this!!! Cher is just beautiful!!!!!!! much better than music nowadays. im only 13 lol!!!

  • Young Cher looks like Olivia Munn a bit.

  • Sonny always looked so happy RIP Sonnny

  • gosh I wish I was born in the 70's or even alive.

    Im 14 and love Cher:)

  • sonny & paul shaffer must have been separated at birth...

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  • @gomudhen You mean *son... now. lol 

  • You hardly recognize Cher. Nice clip though!

  • cher was so pretty here! my step-sister looks just liker her pre-nosejob

  • Lol, looks like they are going to tear each other to pieces after the song backstage. You blank blank that part... oh yeah well your blank blank sucked... you're so full of your ego is... etc. Looks like both of them are trying to upstage each other, ie, I can do my part better than you. Dunno, just my feeling.

  • any idea what month this was? because cher gave birth to chastity on March 4, 1969 and looks very skinny here

  • AND THE BEAT GOES...I LOVE THIS SONG..BACK IN THE DAY...THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO

  • pffft britneys version is 10000000000x better than this crap!

  • @kaygirl222 JAMÁS!

  • @kaygirl222 get outta here you bald retarded skank!

  • @kaygirl222 Learn to show some respect. This is the ORIGINAL. Britney is trash who can't even sing live. How lame is that? VERY.

  • @kaygirl222,are you f***ing kidding me?Britney's (yeah like it was ever hers to begin with) version is repetitive,computer generated crap.I've heard better riffs on an old casio keyboard!

  • @namniekib Hey! Don't knock that Casio Keyboard!!! If it wasn't for that, we'd never have all those great songs of the 80's, like Wall of Voodoo's: Mexican Radio! :D

  • @namniekib of course you can have lots of good riffs on casio keyboards just that the fuckers break so easily

  • In all her NATURAL beauty here, she is breathtakingly beautiful here.

  • BRITTANY SPEARS DOESN'T COME CLOSE!

  • PUT IT UP IN THE BINARY MULTIMEDIA NEWSGROUPS AND TELL US THE GROUP AND NZB FILE IF ANY TO DOWNLOAD IT

  • Is this brilliant or is this brilliant?

  • Cher was sooooo cute .

  • I remember growing up watching Sonny and Cher and I enjoyed this and other videos I have seen. I loved the show and enjoyed their music and still laugh at Sonny's big fur vests. When he switched to suits he looked better but Cher always looked good. I stopped following them when they split up but she has had a phenomenal carer.

    Thanks.

  • Wow Cher looks sooooo gorgeous, isn't she!?

    xoxo from Brazil \o/////

  • He gave Her the streght to perform. She could do other wise

  • I love her look!!!! Beautiful long hair!

  • I like the earlier post: ...and on and on and on.

    I was a high school student back in the 1960s when "The Beat Goes On" rocked the radio airwaves. For those who wish they could have lived back in the day, it was fun but time changes some things. Radio music has definitely changed. Internet with YouTube was totally missing. I am glad for these though, I get to live those days again. Oh, the beat still goes on and on and on.........(world events, I mean).

  • Breatny`s version sucks..,

  • ...and the beat goes on....

  • didn't he like beat her up?

  • @navylaks2 no he didn't! just argued alot!

  • Love those 1970's microphones. Love to find one for my collection.

  • Rip sonny

  • well she made it and is one of the best divas ever to bad about sonny though he was her life

  • @PopCulture20 OMG!!! how can you say that? omg!!! la versión que incluyó Britney Spears en su primer album, es buena en cuanto a los arreglos musicales, pero la interpretación definitivamente deja mucho qué desear, Finalmente Sonny & Cher hicieron de esta canción un gran éxito! Cher definitivamente siempre la mejor!

  • @ZaydOlivas can you translate that please? because it's been a while since I studied Spanish

  • @PopCulture20 I'm going to hope that you're like twelve years old and have no better sense of music. Britney Spears is not even in the same league as Sonny & Cher. Maybe when you get a little older you'll wake up and drop the teenybopper music.

  • @moose0drool actually I'm over 18 and I can easily recognize true talent when it's put in front of me and I think the Britney Spears of this song was a MASTERPIECE!!! learn to WAKE UP and recognize art and stop being so damn blind

  • @PopCulture20 go home

  • the best

  • does anyone else like how her voice is so much stronger and better than his?

  • i think the line "and the beat goes on" will make Sonny alive always, its so epic when he starts the chorus and sings "the beat goes on... the beat goes on"

    i'm 19 though Sonny and Cher are legend, i am a fan!

  • man i LOVE this song!

  • Wow Cher was HOT back in the day....

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  • Every HQ version I have gets pulled. I'm not risking it as I'm on thin ice now. I've also sold off most of my Sonny and Cher collection.

  • Thanks anyway, bud'. Any live version of this tune really can't compare to the original - artistic licence, eh?

  • @SS421982 I don't know why they pull the videos. If anything, it gives S&C exposure to people that otherwise would never see and appreciate their stuff. It helps them, not hurts them.....

  • Can anyone post a CLEAN version of this classic?

  • Cher has such a great voice....and Sonny..I remember when he was the mayor of Palm Springs...a great town....but this song is still played today.....classic

  • i think it's really beautiful that sonny's epitaph says: ''And the beat goes on...''

  • bad sound

  • it seems impossible to get a clean copy of this song's studio version online (and here on YouTube)