Been listening to this quite a lot recently due to rediscovering a lot of Cher's stuff recently, I'm quite a big fan.

Anyone else here think this golden oldie is just a simple yet brilliant little love song? Bonafide classic in my eyes.

Its a sweet wee song.

It's a lot more than that.
It's one of the first and best songs to define the 60s hippy counterculture and youth culture's opposition to establishment values.

'They say we're young and we don't know
We won't find out until we grow
Well I don't know if all that's true
'Cause you got me, and baby I got you'

It's something of a riposte to Dylan's rather cynical 'It Ain't Me Babe'
Musically it owes something to Phil Spector's 'wall of sound' and structurally it isn't straightforward either with two climaxes effectively.

A song that has more meaning than it's face value and one of the great pop duets as well.

Indeed, I think you've explained it in more words than I could. And I absolutely agree with you. I Got you Babe just envokes something in me that the majority of "love songs" just don't.

They made some great records in The 60's , not to keen on her later releases . Like this track more than I Got You Babe . Baby Don't Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFAwosLC9is&hd=1

It's good, but you can't beat this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZWShS_gqsk

this.

i like 'i got you babe' it is one of the defining tracks of the 60's, but imho its far from their best track. 'baby dont go' and 'the beat goes on' for example, and chers version of 'bang bang' was surperb.

Amazing