Gregg Allman certainly had a way with soul and also women, and Cher was one of them.
When Cher welcomed Gregg Allman onto the stage of her CBS variety program The Cher Show on May 11, 1975, the result was one of the oddest musical pairings of the decade. Their duet on “Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing” captured a brief cultural moment where pop television spectacle met the raw soul of Southern rock and blues courtesy of the same guy who gelted out “Whipping Post.”
Originally written and recorded by Oliver Sain and made famous by Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure in 1965, the song is a classic call-and-response soul duet about a couple warning each other not to sabotage a good relationship. That structure made it perfect for television chemistry, and Cher and Allman leaned into it fully.Just a few weeks after this broadcast, Cher and Gregg Allman would marry in June 1975, creating one of the era’s most unexpected celebrity pairings. Their brief musical partnership would continue the following year on the album Two the Hard Way, credited to the duo “Allman and Woman.”
And to further put in the weird category – just look at those gawdy matching outfits…..
