Good Times is the first soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 by American rock duo Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector....

, released in 1967 by Atlantic

Atlantic Records

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/Atco Records

Atco Records

ATCO Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment.-Beginnings:Atco Records was founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records. It was devised as an outlet for productions by one of Atlantic's founders, Herb Abramson, who...

 in conjunction with the film of the same name

Good Times (film)

Good Times is a 1967 musical comedy film starring Sonny and Cher.-Synopsis:Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various movie genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a movie contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus,...

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Album information

It was released in 1967 and reached #73 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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album charts.

The first single released was "It's the Little Things" and peak in US at #50 and in Canada at #3. Other single released were "Caro Cara", the Italian version of "It's The Little Things" and the B-side "Fantasie" the Italian version of "Don't Talk to Strangers". The single was released exclusively for the Italian market, but the song don't enter in the chart.

All the songs on the album were written by Bono. The song "I'm Gonna Love You" was recorded for the debut album of Cher All I Really Want to Do

All I Really Want to Do (album)

All I Really Want to Do is the debut solo album by American singer and actress Cher and was released on October 16, 1965 by Imperial Records. The album was produced for Cher by her husband and singing partner, Sonny Bono, with contributions from arranger Harold Battiste...

but was cut and used for the B-side of "All I Really Want to Do" single.

Side A

1. "I Got You Babe" (Instrumental) - 4:48
2. "It's the Little Things" - 3:05
3. "Good Times" - 5:18
4. "Trust Me" - 4:43

Side B

1. "Don't Talk to Strangers" - 2:46
2. "I'm Gonna Love You" - 2:37
3. "Just a Name" - 6:30
4. "I Got You Babe" - 2:17

Charts

Chart (1966)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	73