Cliff Sings

Cliff Sings
Studio album by Cliff Richard with The Drifters
Released November 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 was released in November 1959 and reached No. 2 in his native the UK, album chart despite not including "Living Doll", Richard's first #1 single. The album charted higher than his debut released earlier in the year.

Recorded in both stereo and mono but only originally released in mono on LP.

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

Release formats

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows
Production


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