Tiny Tim - I Got You, Babe (Sonny & Cher Cover)

From '' God Bless Tiny Tim ''
Label: Reprise Records -- RS 6292
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968

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"I Got You Babe" is a 1965 number-one hit single by American pop music duo Sonny & Cher.
The song has been frequently covered and featured in film and television, including Sonny and Cher's own The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. "I Got You Babe" made a bit of a comeback when it was heavily featured as Phil Connor's alarm clock wake up music in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day. The song was later covered by Cher in a music video that featured Beavis and Butthead as a rapt audience to Cher's performance.

Released covers

1968 Etta James - Tell Mama
1968 Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim
1973 David Bowie with Marianne Faithfull on The Midnight Special, released on the bootleg Dollars In Drag: The 1980 Floor Show
1975 The Dictators - The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!
1982 The Ramones' Joey Ramone and Holly and the Italians' Holly Beth Vincent performed the duet.
1985 UB40 (with Chrissie Hynde) - Baggariddim (also appearing on The Pretenders' 1987 album The Singles).
Madonna and Sandra Bernhard performed the song at a benefit for saving rain-forests in June 1989.
1991 The Cynics' cover from their tribute to Bono, Bonograph.
1993 Cher (with Beavis & Butt-Head) on the album The Beavis & Butt-Head Experience
1998 Merril Bainbridge feat. Shaggy for the soundtrack album to the Johnathon Schaech film Welcome to Woop Woop and the Bainbridge album Between the Days
2004 Avid Merrion, along with Patsy Kensit and Davina McCall.
2005 Capitol Steps' parody "Sunni and Cher", on the album Four More Years in the Bush Leagues, is based on the song
2006 Bradley Joseph - Piano Love Songs

Movies and Television

In a fifth season episode of the CBS sitcom Good Times, Michael Evans (Ralph Carter) and Penny Gordon (Janet Jackson) perform the song.
In The Golden Girls fifth-season episode "An Illegitimate Concern", Sophia (Estelle Getty) and Dorothy (Bea Arthur) dress up as Sonny and Cher, respectively, to rehearse for a mother-daughter talent show, singing "I Got You Babe" while Rose (Betty White) accompanies them on the piano.
In a Full House episode, Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) has Michelle (one or both of The Olsen Twins) sing "I Got You Babe" as they strum on their respective guitars.
In the Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode "What's News", Sabrina and cat Salem Saberhagen dress as Sonny and Cher to sing "I Got You Babe" in an effort to get her boss and his wife to stop fighting.
In Harold Ramis's film Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, it is this song to which the main character awakes each repetitive morning on the clock radio.
Britney Spears appeared on British comedian Frank Skinner's show and performed the duet with the host.
In Quest for Camelot.
The Frank Skinner Show featured the incongruous pairing of Ron Jeremy and Mo Mowlam.
Then-married Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson close The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour special, already very much in the style of Sonny and Cher, singing the duet.
The Rolling Stones don costumes and lip sync to the original version of the song.
New York City-based television show Duets with Deni which regularly features local songwriters and musicians, Deni Bonet and Robyn Hitchcock sing the song from Deni's apartment.
In the Eli Stone episode "I Want Your Sex", in a vision of the title character, Taylor Wethersby (Natasha Henstridge) and Matt Dowd (Sam Jaeger) sing it. It is later revealed that Matt's cat was named Sonny Bono.
In Delta Farce (2008), Sgt. Kilgore (Keith David) is forced to sing "I Got You Babe" with villain Carlos Santana's gay nephew, Ruben (Joe Nunez).
In the Boy Meets World (1999) episode "Cutting The Cord".
In an episode of Blossom.
In The Simpsons episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", after Ned Flanders and wife Maude adopt the Simpson children, they sing a lyrically altered version to Maggie.
In the Histeria! episode "Tribute to Tyrants", a cartoon version of Cher sings a similar song with Atilla the Hun, called "Me Got You Hun".
In the Ugly Betty episode "In or Out", Betty Suarez and Daniel Meade sing a karaoke version.
In Better Off Ted episode "Change We Can't Believe In", Ted and Veronica sing the song over the newly installed PA system.
In the Mad Men season 4 finale, the original recording played over the final scene of Don Draper lying awake in bed in his Greenwich Village apartment with his new fiancee Megan asleep at his side and continued to play during the closing credits.
Appears in the film Me Without You (2001).
In the Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Hot Number Affair", the song plays under the scene where Sonny and Cher appear on screen together for the first time.

Games

It is featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3.
Is sung in the video game Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon by "Sammy and Faire", a parody of Sonny and Cher.

• Category

  Music

[Albert Babisha]

I wish he was a vocalist in a band with me. Seriously this guy has range.

[MichaelEppinetteTV]

R.I.P, the man of many voice tones :(

[pinksugar55]

He could sing Snow White's part in the Disney movie!

[CrazyClara101]

The Weird Al Yankovic of the 60's

[VealParmigiana]

Sweet

[Chris Jackson]

FIFTH!

[JivemasterJ]

Seriously disturbing!!!!!!!!!!

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