Cliff Sings
Studio album by
Cliff Richard with The Shadows
Released6 November 1959[1]
Recorded7–9 September 1959
Length36:10
LabelColumbia
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"
ProducerNorrie Paramor
Cliff Richard chronology
Cliff
(1959)		 Cliff Sings
(1959)		 Me and My Shadows
(1960)

Cliff Sings is the second album by British Cliff Richard and his first studio album. It was released in November 1959 through EMI Columbia Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios.[2] It reached No. 2 in the UK album chart.[3] No singles were released from the album in the UK (as was often the case prior to the 1970s).

The album is the beginning of a repeated pattern in Richard's career until the mid-1960s, in which the Shadows and the Norrie Paramor orchestra would alternately share backing duties. The back cover of the album states that it was at the suggestion of the album's recording engineer, Malcolm Addy, that influenced Norrie Paramor to alternate Richard's backing between the Shadows and the string orchestra for this album.[4] Tony Meehan from the Shadows was the session drummer for all tracks backed by the orchestra on this album.

While backing duties were shared equally on this album, Richard's next album, Me and My Shadows, would be backed entirely by the Shadows, while its successor, Listen to Cliff!, would have the Norrie Paramor orchestra on backing duties for all but one track.

Cliff Sings was recorded in both stereo and mono but originally only released in mono on LP. From February 1960, the album was also progressively marketed on the EP format, into four EPs, Cliff Sings No.1 through to Cliff Sings No.4, in both mono and stereo.[2]

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

References

  1. ↑ "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1991). Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990. London: Blandford. pp. 23, 24, 166. ISBN 0-7137-2242-8.
  3. ↑ "Cliff Richard UK Chart History". officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company.
  4. ↑ Cliff Richard (1959). Cliff Sings (LP record). Great Britain: Columbia (EMI).
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