Cliff Sings

Cliff Sings
Studio album by Cliff Richard with The Shadows
Released November 1959
Recorded 7–9 September 1959
Genre Rock 'n' roll, pop, pop standards
Length 36:10
Label Columbia
1959 Vinyl – SX1192 (mono)
1992 CD – 0777780417 26
- 2 on 1 with "Me And My Shadows"
1998 CD – 495 4392 (mono / stereo)
2001 CD – 5346002 (Stereo)
- 2 on 1 with "Cliff"
Producer Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard chronology
Cliff
(1959)		 Cliff Sings
(1959)		 Me and My Shadows
(1960)

Cliff Richard's second album Cliff Sings is his first conventional studio album. It was released in November 1959 through EMI Columbia Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. It reached No. 2 in his native the UK. The album is split between rock 'n' roll and traditional pop standard covers. It was recorded in both stereo and mono but only originally released in mono on LP. No singles were released from the album in the UK, as was often the case prior to the 1970s.

This album lays down a starting post marker for a repeated pattern during Richard's career during the 1960s in which the Shadows would eventually be marginalized out of his career as a backing group by his producer Norrie Paramor. From this album onwards, for the interim until the mid-1960s, the Shadows and the Norrie Paramor orchestra would jointly share backing duties 50:50. Tony Meehan was used as a session drummer for tracks backed by orchestra.

This album was also marketed on the EP format into four EPs: Cliff Sings no.1 to 4 (both mono and stereo).

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)WithLength
1."Blue Suede Shoes"Carl PerkinsThe Shadows1:45
2."The Snake and the Bookworm"Doc Pomus, Mort ShumanThe Shadows2:10
3."I Gotta Know"Matt Williams, Paul EvansThe Shadows2:25
4."Here Comes Summer"Jerry KellerThe Shadows2:15
5."I'll String Along With You"Al Dubin, Harry WarrenThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:19
6."Embraceable You"George Gershwin, Ira GershwinThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:37
7."As Time Goes By"Herman HupfeldThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:25
8."The Touch of Your Lips"Ray NobleThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:46
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)WithLength
1."Twenty Flight Rock"Ned Fairchild, Eddie CochranThe Shadows1:43
2."Pointed Toe Shoes"Carl PerkinsThe Shadows1:50
3."Mean Woman Blues"Claude DemetriusThe Shadows2:26
4."I'm Walkin'"Fats Domino, Dave BartholomewThe Shadows1:49
5."I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"Roy Turk, Fred E. AhlertThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra1:56
6."Little Things Mean a Lot"Carl Stutz, Edith LindemanThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:32
7."Somewhere Along the Way"Sammy Gallop, Kurt AdamsThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:37
8."That's My Desire"Helmy Kresa, Carroll LovedayThe Norrie Paramor Orchestra2:35

Release formats

  • Vinyl LP mono
  • Reel to Reel Tape.(?)
  • CD mono
  • CD mono/stereo

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows
Production


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