Cher and Mary Bono, widow of Sonny Bono, are still in a legal dispute over royalties from Sonny & Cher’s song catalog. When Cher and Sonny divorced in 1978, they agreed to equally split royalties from ...
1977. Then, Schlitz himself cut it in March 1978. Kenny Rogers, for whom the song became a classic, cut it in Oct. 1978, only a month before Johnny Cash did. Bare's version didn't chart. Schlitz's ...