Great Performances – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek LIVE! encores on Friday, January 5, 2018 at 9PM EST on PBS. (check local listings).
Lady Gaga performs the Cher hit, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” from the eagerly anticipated live concert television event Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! featuring hits from the duo’s number 1 album Cheek to Cheek.
“I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down”
Song Background
Written by Cher’s then-husband Sonny Bono, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” is from the album The Sonny Side of Chér (1966). The version Nancy Sinatra released the same year received more recent exposure on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s film, Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003).
