Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves by lazarus57

lazarus57 - Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves

lazarus57

Nov 17, 2022 10:33am

GENDER BENDER BATTLE ROUND 2<img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/NGQB/e7088689f8_A5VX_media.gif">"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" is a song by American singer and actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Cher</a> from her 1971 seventh <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_album" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">studio album</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9r_(1971_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Chér</a> (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Kapp Records</a>, a division of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">MCA Records</a>, released it as the album's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_single" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">lead single</a> on September 1, 1971. The song was written by Bob Stone, and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Garrett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Snuff Garrett</a>. Since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Sonny Bono</a>'s first attempts at reviving Cher's recording career had been unsuccessful, the record company recruited Garrett as her producer and he chose Stone to write a song specifically for Cher, in order to cater to an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">adult audience</a>."Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" is an upbeat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">pop</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">folk rock</a> story-song that features instrumentation from a carnival calliope and a piano with strings in the background. Cher sings from the point of view of a 16-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Romani</a> girl, who was "born in the wagon of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">traveling show</a>" and describes her life. It contains themes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">racism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">teenage pregnancy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">prostitution</a>. The song received positive reviews by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_journalism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">music critics</a>, and earned Cher a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Annual_Grammy_Awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Grammy Award</a> nomination in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Best Female Pop Vocal Performance</a> category.<h2>Song information[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gypsys,_Tramps_%26_Thieves&action=edit&section=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">edit</a>]</h2>"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was the first single from Chér with instrumental backing by L.A session musicians from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Wrecking Crew</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsys,_Tramps_%26_Thieves#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[2]</a> The album was subsequently renamed and re-released as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9r_(1971_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves</a> after the success of the single. The song was written by songwriter Bob Stone as a story-song called "Gypsys, Tramps and White Trash". Producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Garrett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Snuff Garrett</a> advised that the title be changed and Stone then changed it to "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves". The album of the same name got very positive reviews.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsys,_Tramps_%26_Thieves#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[3]</a>Released four years after her last top ten hit "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Better_Sit_Down_Kids" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">You Better Sit Down Kids</a>", this song was a comeback single for Cher—it was her first single in four years to chart higher than #84—not only returning her to the top 10 of the charts but also giving her two weeks at #1 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Billboard Hot 100</a> in November 1971. It knocked off "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_May" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Maggie May</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Rod Stewart</a> which had spent the previous month at #1. The single also reached #1 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Canada</a> and #4 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">United Kingdom</a>. It was the first single by a solo artist to rank number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time as on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Singles_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Canadian Singles Chart</a>. As of November 2011, Billboard reported the digital sales of "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" to be 212,000 in the US.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsys,_Tramps_%26_Thieves#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[4]</a>The song describes the life of a girl, the song's narrator, who was "born in the wagon of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">traveling show</a>" with her mother, an exotic dancer, and father, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">patent medicine</a> salesman and preacher. Though the family endures jeers of being "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_fiction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">gypsies</a>, tramps and thieves" from townspeople, the men of the town would always come out at night to "lay their money down." One day, the family takes in a 21-year-old man who travels with them from "just south of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile,_Alabama" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Mobile</a>" to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Memphis</a>. One night during the trip, the man implicitly has intercourse with the 16-year-old narrator without her father knowing, and three months after the man disappears in Memphis, the narrator is "in trouble" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">pregnant</a>). The narrator's daughter is born later, with the family continuing to dance, sell nostrums and preach to support themselves.<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qj_L8iK5bGU/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="See the source image"><img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.e1fe3f7708975bbecb8dc39cfd23b374?rik=884a%2faWPop5nJg&riu=http%3a%2f%2f3.bp.blogspot.com%2f-rilDFeV2FTE%2fTnXlQKvj4bI%2fAAAAAAAAAXI%2fn6nxPKvrKYw%2fs1600%2fgypsiesBelieve.jpg&ehk=1ZJ%2b5LmZFy4bWD8pD9gtfabe3HljX0TLxjnKexbe440%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0" alt="See the source image"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TLraTJ3mxiM/hqdefault.jpg" alt="See the source image">