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{{Infobox album
| name       = Sher-oo!
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Cilla Black]]
| cover      = Sher-oo!.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1 April 1968<ref>{{cite magazine|date=16 March 1968|title=Cilla...Tour, film and new album|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Disc/1968/Disc-&-Music-Echo-1968-03-16.pdf|magazine=[[Disc (magazine)|Disc and Music Echo]]|page=8|access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>
| recorded   = 1967/1968 at [[EMI Studios]], [[London]]
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[beat music|Merseybeat]], [[Soul music|soul]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Parlophone Records|Parlophone]]/[[EMI]]
| producer   = [[George Martin]]
| prev_title = [[Cilla Sings a Rainbow]]
| prev_year  = 1966
| next_title = [[The Best of Cilla Black]]
| next_year  = 1968
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Sher-oo!
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Step Inside Love]]
 | single1date = March 1968
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r30769|pure_url=yes}}|title=Sher-oo! – review|accessdate=2011-07-14|work=Allmusic.com}}</ref>
}}
'''''Sher-oo!''''' is [[Cilla Black]]'s third solo [[studio album]], released on 1 April 1968 by [[Parlophone Records]]. The album reached No. 7 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cilla Black: Artist Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10866/cilla-black/ |publisher=Official Charts |accessdate=15 May 2020}}</ref> The album's [[Paul McCartney]]-penned lead single "[[Step Inside Love]]" reached #8 on the [[UK Singles Chart]]. The song was the opening [[theme tune]] to the first four series of the [[BBC TV]] [[variety show]] ''Cilla''. The album was re-issued in the 1970s with different cover art and re-titled ''Step Inside Love'', on the EMI Music For Pleasure (MFP) label.

==Re-release==
On September 7, 2009, [[EMI Records]] released a special edition of the album exclusively to [[music download|digital download]]. This re-issue features all of the album's original recordings re-mastered by [[Abbey Road Studios]] from original 1/4" stereo master tapes. A [[digital booklet]] containing original [[album artwork]], detailed track information and rare photographs will be available from [[iTunes]] with purchases of the entire album re-issue.

==Track listing==
'''Side One'''
# "[[What the World Needs Now is Love]]" <small>([[Burt Bacharach]], [[Hal David]])</small>
# "[[Uno tranquillo|Suddenly You Love Me]]" <small>([[Daniele Pace]], [[Mario Panzeri]], [[Lorenzo Pilat]], [[Peter Callander]])</small>
# "This is the First Time" <small>(Burt Bacharach, Hal David)</small>
# "Follow the Path of the Stars" <small>(Doug Flett, [[Guy Fletcher (songwriter)|Guy Fletcher]])</small>
# "Misty Roses" <small>([[Tim Hardin]])</small>
# "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" <small>([[Barrett Strong]], [[Roger Penzabene]], [[Cornelius Grant]])</small>

'''Side Two'''
# "[[Yo-Yo (Billy Joe Royal song)|Yo Yo]]" <small>([[Joe South]])</small>
# "[[Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart]]" <small>([[Roger Greenaway]], [[Roger Cook (songwriter)|Roger Cook]])</small>
# "[[Step Inside Love]]" <small>([[John Lennon]], [[Paul McCartney]])</small>
# "A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme)" <small>([[Francis Lai]], Pierre Barouh, [[Jerry Keller]])</small>
# "I Couldn't Take My Eyes Off You" <small>([[Bobby Willis]], Clive Westlake)</small>
# "Follow Me" <small>([[Paddy Roberts (songwriter)|Paddy Roberts]])</small>

==Credits==
'''Personnel'''
* Lead vocals by [[Cilla Black]]
* Produced by [[George Martin]]
* Arranged and conducted by [[Mike Vickers]]
* Album cover photograph by John Kelly

== Chart positions ==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1968)
!align="left"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]]
|align="center"|7
|-
|}

== References ==
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==External links==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20091001204350/http://cillablack.com/music-sheroo.htm CillaBlack.com Discography – Sher-oo!
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081107213819/http://www.emimusic.co.uk/ EMI Music Official Site]
*{{IMDb name|0085226|Cilla Black}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book
| last       = Black
| first      = Cilla
| author-link = Cilla Black
| title      = What's it All about?
| publisher  = Ebury Press
| year       = 2004
| location   = United Kingdom
| isbn       = 0-09-189035-7
}}
{{Cilla Black}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1968 albums]]
[[Category:Cilla Black albums]]
[[Category:Parlophone albums]]
[[Category:EMI Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by George Martin]]
[[Category:Albums conducted by Mike Vickers]]
[[Category:Albums arranged by Mike Vickers]]