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Cliff Sings
Cliff Sings
Studio album by Cliff Richard with The Shadows
Released	6 November 1959
Recorded	7–9 September 1959
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
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Cliff Sings is the second album by 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.	Title	Writer(s)	With	Length
1.	"Blue Suede Shoes"	Carl Perkins	The Shadows	1:45
2.	"The Snake and the Bookworm"	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	The Shadows	2:10
3.	"I Gotta Know"	Matt Williams, Paul Evans	The Shadows	2:25
4.	"Here Comes Summer"	Jerry Keller	The Shadows	2:15
5.	"I'll String Along With You"	Al Dubin, Harry Warren	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:19
6.	"Embraceable You"	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:37
7.	"As Time Goes By"	Herman Hupfeld	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:25
8.	"The Touch of Your Lips"	Ray Noble	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:46

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	With	Length
1.	"Twenty Flight Rock"	Ned Fairchild, Eddie Cochran	The Shadows	1:43
2.	"Pointed Toe Shoes"	Carl Perkins	The Shadows	1:50
3.	"Mean Woman Blues"	Claude Demetrius	The Shadows	2:26
4.	"I'm Walkin'"	Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew	The Shadows	1:49
5.	"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"	Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	1:56
6.	"Little Things Mean a Lot"	Carl Stutz, Edith Lindeman	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:32
7.	"Somewhere Along the Way"	Sammy Gallop, Kurt Adams	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:37
8.	"That's My Desire"	Helmy Kresa, Carroll Loveday	The Norrie Paramor Orchestra	2:35

Release formats

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

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows

Production

Produced by Norrie Paramor
Engineered by Malcolm Addey

References

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

[1] "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

[CompleteRecordingSessions-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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+{{Use British English|date=June 2014}}
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-{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
+{{Infobox album
-| Name        = Cliff Sings
+| name         = Cliff Sings
-| Type        = Studio
+| type         = Studio
-| Artist      = [[Cliff Richard]] with The Drifters
+| artist       = [[Cliff Richard]] with The Shadows
-| Cover       = Cliff Sings (Album) Mono.jpg
+| cover        = Cliff Sings (Album) Mono.jpg
-| Released    = November 1959
+| alt          =
+| released     = 6 November 1959<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details|url=http://www.cliffrichardsongs.com/popup.php?data=BlueSuedeShoes195985_popupplus|access-date=2022-11-21|website=www.cliffrichardsongs.com}}</ref>
-| Recorded    = September 7–9 1959
+| recorded     = 7–9 September 1959
-| Genre       = [[Rock 'n' Roll]], [[Pop music|pop]], [[Pop Standards]]
-| Length      =
+| venue        =
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-| Label       = [[Columbia Graphophone|Columbia]]<br><small>1959 Vinyl – SX1192 (mono)<br>1992 CD – 0777780417 26<br>- 2 on 1 with "Me And My Shadows"<br> 1998 CD – 495 4392 (mono / stereo)<br>2001 CD – 5346002 (Stereo)<br>- 2 on 1 with "Cliff"</small>
-| Producer    =
+| genre        =
-| Chronology     = [[Cliff Richard]]
+| length       = 36:10
+| label        = [[Columbia Graphophone|Columbia]]<br><small>1959 Vinyl – SX1192 (mono)<br>1992 CD – 0777780417 26<br>- 2 on 1 with "Me And My Shadows"<br> 1998 CD – 495 4392 (mono / stereo)<br>2001 CD – 5346002 (Stereo)<br>- 2 on 1 with "Cliff"</small>
-| Last album  = ''[[Cliff (album)|Cliff]]''<br>(1959)
+| producer     = [[Norrie Paramor]]
-| This album  = '''''Cliff Sings'''''<br>(1959)
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+'''Cliff Sings''' is the second album by [[Cliff Richard]] and his first [[studio album]]. It was released in November 1959 through [[EMI Columbia Records]] and recorded at [[Abbey Road Studios]].<ref name="CompleteRecordingSessions">{{cite book | first1=Peter | last1=Lewry | first2=Nigel | last2=Goodall | year=1991 | title=Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990 | publisher=Blandford | location=London | isbn=0-7137-2242-8 | pages=23,24,166}}</ref> It reached No. 2 in the [[UK Album Charts|UK album chart]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cliff Richard UK Chart History|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/19899/cliff-richard/|website=officialcharts.com|publisher=Official Charts Company}}</ref> No singles were released from the album in the UK (as was often the case prior to the 1970s).
-[[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.
+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|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.<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Cliff Richard | title=Cliff Sings | date=1959 | medium=[[LP record]] | location=Great Britain | publisher=[[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia (EMI)]] |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2812152-Cliff-Sings/images}}</ref> [[Tony Meehan]] from the Shadows was the session drummer for all tracks backed by the orchestra on this album.
-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.
+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.
-This album was also marketed on the EP format into four EPs: ''Cliff Sings no.1 to 4'' (both mono and stereo).
+''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 [[Extended play|EP]] format, into four EPs, ''Cliff Sings No.1'' through to ''Cliff Sings No.4'', in both mono and stereo.<ref name="CompleteRecordingSessions"/>
 == Track listing ==
+{{track listing
-;Side one
+|headline = Side one |extra_column = With
-# "[[Blue Suede Shoes]]" - with the Shadows                     (Carl Perkins)
+|title1 = [[Blue Suede Shoes]] |writer1 = [[Carl Perkins]] |extra1 = [[The Shadows]] |length1 = 1:45
-# "[[The Snake and the Bookworm]]" - with the Shadows
+|title2 = The Snake and the Bookworm |writer2 = [[Doc Pomus]], [[Mort Shuman]] |extra2 = The Shadows |length2 = 2:10
-# "[[I Gotta Know]]" - with the Shadows
+|title3 = [[I Gotta Know]] |writer3 = Matt Williams, [[Paul Evans (musician)|Paul Evans]] |extra3 = The Shadows |length3 = 2:25
-# "[[Here Comes Summer]]" - with the Shadows
+|title4 = [[Here Comes Summer]] |writer4 = [[Jerry Keller]] |extra4 = The Shadows |length4 = 2:15
-# "[[I'll String Along With You]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
-# "[[Embraceable You]]"- with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title5 = [[I'll String Along With You]] |writer5 = [[Al Dubin]], [[Harry Warren]] |extra5 = [[Norrie Paramor|The Norrie Paramor Orchestra]] |length5 = 2:19
-# "[[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title6 = [[Embraceable You]] |writer6 = [[George Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin]] |extra6 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length6 = 2:37
-# "[[The Touch of Your Lips]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title7 = [[As Time Goes By (song)|As Time Goes By]] |writer7 = [[Herman Hupfeld]] |extra7 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length7 = 2:25
+|title8 = [[The Touch of Your Lips]] |writer8 = [[Ray Noble]] |extra8 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length8 = 2:46
+}}
-;Side two
+{{track listing
-# "[[Twenty Flight Rock]]" - with the Shadows
+|headline = Side two |extra_column = With
-# "[[Pointed Toe Shoes]]" - with the Shadows
+|title1 = [[Twenty Flight Rock]] |writer1 = [[Ned Fairchild]], [[Eddie Cochran]] |extra1 = The Shadows |length1 = 1:43
-# "[[Mean Woman Blues]]" - with the Shadows
+|title2 = Pointed Toe Shoes |writer2 = Carl Perkins |extra2 = The Shadows |length2 = 1:50
-# "[[I'm Walking]]" - with the Shadows
+|title3 = [[Mean Woman Blues]] |writer3 = [[Claude Demetrius]] |extra3 = The Shadows |length3 = 2:26
-# "[[I Don't Know Why]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title4 = [[I'm Walkin']] |writer4 = [[Fats Domino]], [[Dave Bartholomew]] |extra4 = The Shadows |length4 = 1:49
-# "[[Little Things Mean a Lot]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
-# "[[Somewhere Along the Way]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title5 = [[I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)]] |writer5 = [[Roy Turk]], [[Fred E. Ahlert]] |extra5 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length5 = 1:56
-# "[[That's My Desire]]" – with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra
+|title6 = [[Little Things Mean a Lot]] |writer6 = [[Carl Stutz]], [[Edith Lindeman]] |extra6 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length6 = 2:32
+|title7 = [[Somewhere Along the Way]] |writer7 = [[Sammy Gallop]], Kurt Adams |extra7 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length7 = 2:37
+|title8 = [[That's My Desire]] |writer8 = [[Helmy Kresa]], Carroll Loveday |extra8 = The Norrie Paramor Orchestra |length8 = 2:35
+}}
 ==Release formats==
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 *[[Record producer|Produced]] by [[Norrie Paramor]]
 *[[Audio engineering|Engineered]] by Malcolm Addey
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
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+{{Authority control}}
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 [[Category:The Shadows albums]]
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-[[Category:Albums recorded at Abbey Road Studios]]
 [[Category:EMI Columbia Records albums]]
-[[Category:English-language albums]]
 [[Category:Albums produced by Norrie Paramor]]
+[[Category:British rock-and-roll albums]]
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