Cliff Richard /Rock-n-Roll/

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Cliff Richard & The Shadows
"The Rock'n Roll Years"



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CLIFF RICHARD - THE ROCK'N ROLL YEARS


Sir Cliff Richard OBE, birth name Harry Rodger Webb (born 14 October 1940) is a world famous singer from England. With his backing group The Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before the advent of The Beatles. A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to his having more of a pop than rock image. Although never able to achieve the same impact in the United States, even though he has had several chart hits there, Richard has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in the UK and also retains a following in several other countries. During the last six decades, Richard has charted many hit singles, and holds the record (along with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all its active decades (1950s–2000s). According to his website, he has sold 250 million records over the course of his career. [1]. In the British charts alone, Richard has had more than 150 singles, albums and EPs make the top 20 [2]
In the early days, Cliff Richard was something of a British equivalent to Elvis Presley. Supplanting previous British would-be rockers such as Marty Wilde, Richard was the first in Britain to adopt Presley-like dress and hairstyle. In performance he struck a pose of rock attitude, rarely smiling or even looking directly at the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, "High Class Baby", "Livin' Lovin' Doll", and "Mean Streak", carried a real rocker's sense of speed and passion. It was on "Livin' Lovin' Doll" that The Drifters began actually to back Cliff on record. By that time, the band's lineup had changed, with the bringing-in of the more skilled Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin, and Bruce Welch. They changed their name to the Shadows when legal complications began arising with the U.S. Drifters.
In the period between 1958 and 1963, Cliff Richard and the Shadows stood as the biggest thing in Britain. They also toured the United States in 1960 and were reportedly well-received, but the record company did not provide strong enough support for album distribution - among other matters - and so the chances were lost. It was the same with their appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was responsible for much of the Beatles' success, but did not really help Cliff and the Shadows. As a result, Cliff Richard remained almost completely unknown in the US. However, Cliff and the Shadows basically re-wrote convention in British recording companies and opened EMI up to the importance and strength of rock n' roll music. It was due to them that Parlophone were looking for a "second" Cliff and the Shadows, eventually signing the Beatles. Cliff and the Shadows appeared in a number of films, most notably in The Young Ones (which would give its name to 1980s TV sitcom The Young Ones, a show which also made reverent references to Richard), Summer Holiday (which featured a slimmed-down Richard with visible dancing skills), Wonderful Life and Finders Keepers. These movies created their own genre known as the "Cliff Richard musical" and led to Cliff being named the #1 cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and 1963.

The Rock 'n' Roll Years

Released: January 1997
EMI Records


Tracklist:
01 - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
02 - Move It
03 - 20 Flight Rock
04 - High Class Baby
05 - My Feet Hit The Ground
06 - Livin Lovin Doll
07 - Blue Suede Shoes
08 - We Say Yeah
09 - Mean Streak
10 - Nine Times Out Of Ten
11 - That'll Be The Day
12 - Choppin'
13 - Do You Wanna Dance
14 - Dancing Shoes
15 - Dynamite
16 - What'd I Say
17 - Without You
18 - Mean Woman Blues
19 - Oh Boy! Medley (King Creole/Tv Hop/Rockin' Robin)
20 - Don't Bug Me Baby
21 - No Turning Back
22 - Whole Lotta'Shakin' Goin'On
23 - I'm Walkin'
24 - Willie And The Hand Jive
25 - Blueberry Hill
26 - Please Don't Tease

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Britain's answer to Elvis Presley, Richard (born Harry Webb) dominated the pre-Beatles British pop scene in the late '50s and early '60s. An accomplished singer with a genuine feel for the music, Richard's artistic legacy is nonetheless meager, as he was quickly steered toward a middle-of-the-road pop direction. Several of his late-'50s recordings, however, were genuinely exciting Presley-esque rockers -- especially his first hit, "Move It" (1958) -- and gave British teenagers their first taste of genuine homegrown rock & roll talent. Backed by the Shadows -- clean-cut instrumental virtuosos who became legends of their own -- Richard embarked on a truly awesome string of hit singles in Britain, scoring no less than 43 Top 20 hits between 1958 and 1969. One of these, although it was by no means one of the more successful, was an actual Mick Jagger/Keith Richards composition (the ballad "Blue Turns to Grey").

In his homeland, Richard's popularity was diminished only slightly by the rise of the Beatles, but in his prime, he had a much rougher time in the U.S., hitting the Top 40 only three times (with "Living Doll" in 1959, "It's All in the Game" in 1963, and "Devil Woman" in 1976). Richard belatedly cracked the U.S. Top Ten in 1976 with "Devil Woman," and racked up a few other hits ("We Don't Talk Anymore," "Dreaming," "A Little in Love") in a mainstream pop/rock style. He remains an institution in Britain, where he is one of the nation's most popular all-around entertainers of all time.

Such an unimaginative title for such a imaginative boxful. Across four discs and 105 songs, Cliff Richard's earliest catalog comes in for precisely the kind of treatment every rock & roll star should have: an all-encompassing study of his most important period. Even more impressively, though the song titles all sound familiar, the performances rarely are. Thirty-seven tracks are bona fide unreleased (South African 78s notwithstanding), but several dozen more are culled from scarce EP-only mixes, rarely resurfacing B-sides, and unusual mixes. One cut, an undubbed take of "Willie and the Hand Jive," was hitherto available only on a mid-'80s budget-priced single disc, covering much the same period as this. It wasn't aimed at collectors, it wasn't heavily advertised, and it probably didn't sell many copies. Of such things do completists dream, but when you have a beakful of hen's teeth to sort through, do such things really matter? Discs one through three are the conventional ones. Running in strict chronology through Richard's first eight albums, 20-plus EPs, and 23 singles, highlights are sorted, then sorted again. Where a rare version exists, that's what is offered here, be it an alternate version of "It's All in the Game," an unreleased rehearsal of "Do You Wanna Dance," or the original stereo mix for the album take of "Twenty Flight Rock." Disc one is the hottest. The swagger of "Move It," the dynamics of "Dynamite," all the things that sent the New Musical Express running home to hide in 1958/1959 (screaming, "must we fling this filth at our pop kids?") are here. From this side of the ocean, the best-known tracks are the American covers, and there's a fair swathe of them to be sure. But the killers, the stompers, the real bees' knees, are the homegrown monsters that simply ripped up the form book and rewrote rocking basics. Just like the guy who sang them, in fact. Disc two, covering 1959-1961, keeps up the pace for as long as it can, but rock & roll itself was starting to flag, and Richard's energy level flags with it. By disc three, 1962-1963, Richard's post-Beatles role of mainstream pop balladeer was already in his grasp, and though he could still kick out the jams when he wanted (a soulful "Blueberry Hill," a raunchy "Reelin' and Rockin'"), it's the ballads that stick out the most -- "It's All in the Game" and "I'm Looking Out the Window." And then there's "The Next Time," stripped down to its unorchestrated basics, and still one of Richard's most impressive performances. Until you reach disc four, of course. Subtitled "Rare'n'Rockin' 1958-63," this is the album that completely rewrites history. It opens with the first recording Richard (then still laboring under his distinctly nondescript given name of Harry Webb) ever made: He rips through raucous, raw renderings of "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Breathless," cuts to a 1958 live show, and hacks through broadcast tapes and unreleased acetates. And every one is a gem. His Elvis Presley covers are especially remarkable. America's rock & roll revolution, of course, was matched blow for blow by skiffle in the U.K. -- even Richard's Shadows cut their teeth in that movement, as members of Wally Whyton's Vipers. Where Richard triumphed over the rest of the pack was in the way he blended the two forms together; where "Rare'n'Rockin'" triumphs is by revealing just how seamless that blending could be. And "Jailhouse Rock" and "Heartbreak Hotel" are the apogee of his art. Suddenly it's no surprise that, for every new British band from the Beatles on down, it was Richard and the Shadows who pointed the way, not Elvis, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, or Gene Pitney, and certainly none of the names who sprang up in Britain in Richard's wake. Richard did more than create a hybrid. He invented a truly British way of rocking. And from the Beatles to Blur, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses, that method remains fundamental to British rock.


Cliff Richard - The Rock & Roll years 1958- 1963


The complete EMI Box - Set Released June 1997

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CD 1

The Rock 'N' Roll years 1958-1959

Schoolboy Crush/ High Class Baby/ My feet hit the ground/ Don't bug me baby (Out-take from October 58)/ King Creole/ At the Hop/Rockin Robin I'll try/ High School Confidential/Early in the morning Somebody Touched me/ Living Lovin Doll/ Mean Streak/ Never Mind/ Steady with you/My Babe (Stereo EP)/Move it(Stereo EP) That'll be the day (Live Stereo)/ Danny (Live Stereo)/ Whole Lotta Shakin going on (Live Stereo)/ One Night (Live Mono Out Take Feb 59)/ Apron Strings/ Dynamite/ I gotta Know/ Snake & The Book worm/Here comes summer/ 20 flight rock/ Blue suede shoes


CD 2

The Rock 'n' Roll years 1959 - 1961

Mean woman Blues/ Pointed toe shoes/ I'm walkin/ Don't be mad at me/ Willie & The Hand jive (Un dubbed)/ Nine times out of ten (Incomplete take plus stereo master)/ Thinking of our love/ Evergreen Tree/ She's Gone/ Tell me/ Where is my heart/ Lamp of love/ I'm Gonna Get you/ I cannot find a true love/ Working after school/ You & I/ I'm willing to learn/ We have it made/ Choppin n Changin/ It's you/ I love you (alternate take with false start)/ D in Love/ Catch me(Original un dubbed version)/ Now's the time to fall in love(Original un dubbed version)/ True love will come to you/ First lesson in Love/ I want you to know/ Blue moon

CD 3

The Rock 'n' Roll years 1961 - 1962

Tough enough/ Mumblin Mosie/ 50 tears for every kiss/ Unchained melody/ What'd I say/ Forty Days/ Without you/ Shame on you/ Spanish Harlem/ Do you remember(Alternate take)/ I'm lookin out the window/ You don't know/ Take special care(Fast version)/Do you wanna dance(Rehearsal)/ Do you wanna Dance (Alternate take)/ Do you wanna Dance (Original Un dubbed Master)/ Do you wanna dance / Since I lost you/ Dim Dim the lights (Live from Kingston March 62)/ Save my soul (Live from Kingston March 62)/ I'm walking the Blues/ Summer Holiday (Original un dubbed version)/ The next time/ Blueberry Hill/ A forever kind of love/ Razzle Dazzle/ Reelin N Rockin/ Its all in the game(Alternate take)

CD 4

Rare 'n' Rockin 1958 - 1963

Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Private Demo 1958)/ Breathless (Private Demo 1958)/ 20 Flight rock (live stage performance 58)/ Jailhouse rock (live stage performance 58)/ Money Honey (live stage performance 58)/ Heartbreak Hotel (live stage performance 58)/ Turn me loose(1958 Live Oh Boy performance)/ Who's gonna take you home(un released acetate)/ Lets stick together(un released acetate)/What'd I say (South African version DSA 393)& Listen to Cliff LP JSX 1320/Forty Days (from Radio Luxembourg)/ Got a funny feeling(From Radio Luxembourg)/ Rosalie(From Radio Luxembourg)/ Me & My Shadows (From Radio Luxembourg)/Lessons in Love(Solo Version)/ We say yeah(Un dubbed film version)/ Hang up your rock & roll shoes/ Dancing shoes(From Radio Broadcast 1963)/ It'll be me(from Radio Broadcast 1963)/ Summer Holiday advertising EP/ Cliff's personal message to you



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Cliff Richard - The Singles Collection

Audio CD (12 Aug 2002)
Number of Discs: 6
Format: Box set
Label: EMI

Regarded as rock royalty in his native Britain, Cliff Richard is a star with a strong Christian message and some cheery, catchy pop songs. This SINGLES COLLECTION covers his entire career over an incredible 126 tracks.

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Includes all of his 127 solo singles together for the first time. Including his release from April 2002 'Let Me Be The One'. Cardboard sleeves. 2002.

This is a collection for the genuine specialist, someone who cares as much for the double A-sides and flipped B-sides that litter Richard's U.K. discography as for the export releases and withdrawn oddities, and wants them all wrapped up in one tidy collection. And while few people, including the man himself, would argue that every single 45 that Cliff Richard has ever released was a bona fide classic, there is still something impossibly awe-inspiring about seeing them all lined up like this. No less than 127 tracks are spread across six CDs, to represent 44 years during which Richard hasn't simply seen every one of his contemporaries fade and fall, he has presided over the entire history of rock & roll. Laid out in strict chronological order, from monster hit to minor ripple, from "Schoolboy Crush" (1958) to "Let Me Be the One" (2002), The Singles Collection traces the course of modern popular music like no other single-artist collection ever could -- and does so with such versatility that, sometimes, it's difficult to believe that it is all the work of just one man. In terms of cultural resonance, it's the first disc, and the rock & rolling half decade that launched Richard's career, that hits the hardest; by the time the Beatles came along, Richard was already a hoary veteran (he was 24, the same age as John Lennon), his days of pink-jacketed rebellion far behind him, and onto his fourth movie, too. But there was barely a band in the land that hadn't cut its teeth on "Move It," the first truly British rock & roll record ever, nor a guitarist who didn't owe his or her first synchronized step 'n' twang to the example of Richard's guitarist, Hank Marvin. Here are 30 songs, almost every one a classic, that follow the process from ignition to absorption. Through the remainder of the '60s and into the '70s, Richard could neither do, nor hope to do, more than consolidate his fame, and by 1971-1972 (early disc three), he was clearly on his way out. The singles no longer charted automatically, and those hits that he did have were little more than jingles. But he turned it around, not simply seeking out a new direction but an entire new musical discipline, one that answered the one question rock & roll had always wondered about: what happens if you don't die before you get old? In Cliff Richard's case, you just keep going. This second patch of musical brilliance stretched from "(You Keep Me) Hanging On" in 1974, through "Devil Woman," "Miss You Nights," and "We Don't Talk Anymore," and on to the still-remarkable "Carrie" in 1980, by which time Richard was so firmly reestablished that the next two decades (and close to three discs) fly past in a sequence that might not be consistently great, but was consistently successful. And that is possibly the greatest achievement of them all. Few artists, after all, will ever be able to boast of half a century of regular hitmaking. And fewer still will remain so listenable (almost) throughout.

See also: http://www.cliffrichardsongs.com/100.htm



Disc 1

Tracks:

Schoolboy Crush
Move It
High Class Baby
Livin' Lovin' Doll
Mean Streak
Never Mind
Living Doll
Travellin' Light
Dynamite
Voice In The Wilderness
Fall In Love With You
Please Don't Tease
Nine Times Out Of Ten
I Love You
Theme For A Dream
Gee Whiz It's You
Girl Like You
When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart
What'd I Say
Young Ones
I'm Looking Out The Window
Do You Wanna Dance
It'll Be Me
Next Time
Bachelor Boy
Summer Holiday
Lucky Lips
It's All In The Game
Don't Talk To Him
I'm The Lonely One




Disc 2

Constantly
On The Beach
Twelfth Of Never
I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)
Minute You're Gone
Angel
On My Word
Time In Between
Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)
Blue Turns To Grey
Visions
Time Drags By
In The Country
It's All Over
I'll Come Runnin'
Day I Met Marie
All My Love
Congratulations
I'll Love You Forever Today
Marianne
Don't Forget To Catch Me
Good Times (Better Times)
Big Ship
With The Eyes Of A Child
Goodbye Sam Hello Samantha
I Ain't Got Time Anymore
Sunny Honey Girl




Disc 3

Silvery Rain
Flying Machine
Sing A Song Of Freedom
Jesus
Living In Harmony
Brand New Song
Power To All Our Friends
Help It Along
Tomorrow Rising
Take Me High
You Keep Me Hanging On
It's Only Me You Left Behind
Honky Tonk Angel
Miss You Nights
Devil Woman
I Can't Ask For Anything More Than You
Hey Mister Dream Maker
My Kinda Life
When Two Worlds Drift Apart
Yes He Lives
Please Remember Me



Disc 4

Can't Take The Hurt Anymore
Green Light
We Don't Talk Anymore
Hot Shot
Carrie
Dreamin'
Little In Love
Wired For Sound
Daddy's Home
Only Way Out
Where Do We Go From Here
Little Town
True Love Ways
Never Say Die (Give A Little Bit More)
Please Don't Fall In Love
Baby You're Dynamite
Ocean Deep
Shooting From The Heart
Heart User



Disc 5

She's So Beautiful
It's In Every One Of Us
Born To Rock 'n' Roll
My Pretty One
Some People
Remember Me
Two Hearts
Mistletoe And Wine
Best Of Me
I Just Don't Have The Heart
Lean On You
Stronger Than That
Silhouettes
From A Distance
Saviour's Day
More To Life
We Should Be Together



Disc 6

This New Year
I Still Believe In You
Peace In Our Time
Human Work Of Art
Never Let Go
Healing Love
Misunderstood Man
Be With Me Always
Can't Keep This Feeling In
Miracle
Millennium Prayer
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World
Let Me Be The One


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Rock On With Cliff Richard

Music For Pleasure (EMI)

Released 1987

Lossless (flac) & artwork
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Tracks:

Move It
High Class Baby
My Feet Hit The Ground
Livin' Lovin' Doll
Mean Streak
Never Mind
Apron Strings
Dynamite
Blue Suede Shoes
Twenty Flight Rock
Mean Woman Blues
Willie And The Hand Jive
Please Don't Tease
Nine Times Out Of Ten
D In Love
Mumblin' Mosie
Gee Whiz It's You
What'd I Say
Got A Funny Feeling
Forty Days
Tough Enough
We Say Yeah
Do You Want To Dance
It'll Be Me
Dancing Shoes

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Cliff Richard - Cliff & The Drifters

Original Release Date: 1959

Label: Columbia (UK)

Remastered 1987

Label: EMI Records Ltd (UK)

By 1958, the British rock & roll scene was still struggling to escape the shadow of its American counterpart. Neither songwriters not performers seemed capable of breaking the stranglehold; they sang with American accents, they covered American hits. And then Cliff Richard burst onto the scene with "Move It" and the Brits never looked back.
"Move It" was written by Ian Samwell, a guitarist with Richard's backing band, the Drifters, while riding on a London bus. A fierce statement of intent, it mocked the doomsayers then prophesying the death of rock & roll, by asking what they hoped to replace it with -- " ballads and calypsos got nothing on real country music that just drives along." Driven by an electrifying guitar riff from session man Ernie Shears, while the band laid down a tight rockabilly riff, "Move It" was an absolute revelation -- so much so that, when the group cut its first ever single with producer Norrie Paramor, "Move It" was selected as the B-side, more as a sop to the youth market than because the veteran Paramor had any sympathy with its sentiments. The A-side was a cover of Bobby Helms' "Schoolboy Crush."
The record was still new in the stores, however, when DJs took to flipping it over and airing "Move It" and, within days, Columbia had followed suit. "Move It" went on to become Richard's first U.K. hit. British rock & roll was born.


With 50 years of hit-making behind him, it seems difficult today to believe there was ever a time when Cliff Richard was not a permanent fixture on the U.K. charts; when the Oldest Teenager In Pop was himself a fresh-faced teen, still trying to accustom himself to his overnight transition from a skiffle singer named Harry Webb to Britain's Elvis Presley, of course, but more importantly than that, the only viable rock & roll star the country had produced in three years of trying. Even today, the opening strains of his first single, "Move It," ring with an almost apocalyptic self-assurance, the knowledge that without them, there would have been no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Sex Pistols, no Pete Doherty and, if that wasn't immediately apparent when he first cut the song, he never showed it. Insistent beyond his years, confident beyond his then-apparent abilities, all spiffed out in his pink suit and sideburns, Richard took the hopes and ambitions of an entire generation -- his own -- and turned them upside down. Of course the girls screamed at him -- you would, too, if he'd shown you what was possible. Richard, this wild young iconoclast's debut album, retains every ounce of that power. Recorded live at Abbey Road studios in front of an invited (and very vocal) audience of fans, its 16 tracks are a representation both of the star's own early repertoire, and the staples of any aspiring rock & roll band of the era -- a piece of Presley, a bit of Buddy Holly, a lump of Jerry Lee Lewis. Backed, of course, by the Shadows (at a time when they were still called the Drifters), it is a magnificent portrait of the team's capabilities -- the band themselves throw three instrumentals into the brew, including a devastating "Be Bop A Lula" and the self-referential "Driftin'," with guitarist Hank Marvin already perfecting the licks and lines which would soon establish him as the role model for every British guitarist of the next five years. Richard, however, remains the star of the show, whether powering through a confidently lazy rearrangement of "That'll Be the Day" and an energetic "Whole Lotta Shakin'," slowing the tempo for a lovely "Donna" and a dreamy "Danny," or simply letting rip on the song which started it all for him, "Move It" -- and it's a tribute to the original performance that, even with lights blazing, the audience wailing, and the adrenalin pounding, neither Richard nor band can up the ante any further. "Move It" was already the ultimate rock & roller. How can anything improve upon perfection?

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Apron Strings
My Babe
Down the Line
I Got a Feeling
Jet Black
Baby I Don't Care
Donna
Move It
Ready Teddy
Too Much
Don't Bug Me Baby
Driftin'
That'll Be the Day
Be-Bop-A-Lula
Danny
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On


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