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Cliff Sings 
Studio album by Cliff Richard with The Drifters Released November 1959 Recorded September 7-9 1959 Genre Rock 'n' Roll, pop 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"Cliff Richard with The Drifters 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 then re-marketed on the EP format into 8 EPs:
- Cliff Sings no.1 (mono)
- Cliff Sings no.2 (mono)
- Cliff Sings no.3 (mono)
- Cliff Sings no.4 (mono)
- Cliff Sings no.1 (stereo)
- Cliff Sings no.2 (stereo)
- Cliff Sings no.3 (stereo)
- Cliff Sings no.4 (stereo)
Track listing
- Side one
- "Blue Suede Shoes" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "The Snake and the Bookworm" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "I Gotta Know" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "Here Comes Summer" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "I'll String Along With You" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "Embraceable You"- Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "As Time Goes By" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "The Touch of Your Lips" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- Side two
- "Twenty Flight Rock" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "Pointed Toe Shoes" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "Mean Woman Blues" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "I'm Walking" - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
- "I Don't Know Why" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "Little Things Mean a Lot" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "Somewhere Along the Way" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
- "That's My Desire" - Cliff Richard & The Norrie Paramor Orchestra
Release formats
- Vinyl LP mono
- Reel to Reel Tape.(?)
- CD mono
- CD mono/stereo
Personnel
- Cliff Richard and the Shadows
- Cliff Richard – lead vocals
- Hank Marvin – lead guitar
- Bruce Welch - rhythm guitar
- Jet Harris – bass guitar
- Tony Meehan – drums
- Production
- Produced by Norrie Paramor
- Engineered by Malcolm Addey
Albums (UK) 1950s:Cliff (1959) · Cliff Sings (1959)1960s:Me and My Shadows (1960) · Listen to Cliff! (1961) · 21 Today (1961) · The Young Ones (1961, soundtrack) · 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds (1962) · Summer Holiday (1963, soundtrack) · When in Spain (1963) · Wonderful Life (1964, soundtrack) · Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1964, stage show album) · Cliff Richard (1965) · Love Is Forever (1965) · When in Rome (1965) · Kinda Latin · Finders Keepers (1966, soundtrack) · Cinderella (1967, soundtrack) · Don't Stop Me Now (1967) · Good News (1967, gospel) · Cliff in Japan (1968, live) · Two a Penny (1968, soundtrack) · Established 1958 (1968) · Sincerely Cliff (1969)1970s:Tracks and Grooves (1970) · All My Love (1970) · About the Man (1970, gospel) · His Land (1970, gospel) · Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town (1970, live) · The 31st February Street (1974) · Take Me High (1974, soundtrack) · Help It Along (1974, gospel) · I'm Nearly Famous (1976) · Every Face Tells a Story (1977) · Green Light (1978) · Small Corners (1978, gospel) · Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979) · Thank You Very Much (1979, live)1980s:I'm No Hero (1980) · Wired for Sound (1980) · Now You See Me... Now You Don't (1982, gospel) · Silver (1983) · Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live) · The Rock Collection (1984) · Walking in the Light (1984) · Always Guaranteed (1987) · Stronger (1989)1990s:From a Distance: The Event (1990, live) · Together with Cliff Richard (1991) · The Album (1993) · Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album) · Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live) · Yesterday, Today, Forever (1997, gospel, compilation) · Real as I Wanna Be (1998)2000s:Wanted (2001) · Live at the ABC Kingston, 1962 (2002, live) · Cliff at Christmas (2003) · Something's Goin' On (2004) · Cliff Richard - The World Tour (2004, live) · Two's Company The Duets (2006) · Love... The Album (2007, Part new songs, part compilation) · Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows (2009)2010s:Bold as Brass (2010) · Soulicious (2011)EPs (UK) Serious Charge · Expresso BongoCompilations (UK) Cliff's Hit Album (1963) · More Hits by Cliff (1965) · The Best of Cliff (1969) · The Best of Cliff, Vol. 2 (1972) · 40 Golden Greats (1977) · Love Songs (1981) · Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988) · My Kinda Life (1992) · The Hit List (1994) · At the Movies 1959-1974 (1996) · The Whole Story: His Greatest Hits (2000) · Miss You Nights: The Ballads Collection (2004) · The Platinum Collection (2005) · And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) (2008) · The 50th Anniversary Album (2008) ·Filmography Serious Charge (1959) · Expresso Bongo (1959) · The Young Ones (Soundtrack album) (1961) · Summer Holiday (Soundtrack album) (1963) · Wonderful Life (Soundtrack album) (1964) · Finders Keepers (1966) · Two a Penny (1967) · Take Me High (1973)Related articles 
Book:Cliff RichardCategories:- Cliff Richard albums
- The Shadows albums
- 1959 albums
- Albums recorded at Abbey Road Studios
- EMI Columbia Records albums
- English-language albums
- Albums produced by Norrie Paramor
- 1950s album stubs
- Rock album stubs
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