Released November 1959 | Length 36:10 Release date November 1959 | |
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Label Columbia Graphophone Company Genres Rock and roll, Pop music, Traditional pop music Similar Cliff Richard albums, Pop music albums | ||
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.
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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).
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Personnel
Songs
1Blue Suede Shoes1:44
2Snake and the Bookworm2:10
3I Gotta Know2:26