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Cliff Richard: Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD)

(2010/SMITH) 71 tracks - 1958-1959

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  • Interpret: Cliff Richard

  • Album titlle: Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label SMITH

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 8717278721934

  • weight in Kg 0.13
Richard, Cliff - Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD) CD 1
01 Livin' Lovin' Doll Cliff Richard
02 Apron Strings Cliff Richard
03 Move It Cliff Richard
04 Twenty Flight Rock Cliff Richard
05 Dynamite Cliff Richard
06 Livin' Doll Cliff Richard
07 The Snake And The Bookworm Cliff Richard
08 Never Mind Cliff Richard
09 Here Comes Summer Cliff Richard
10 I Gotta Know Cliff Richard
11 My Feet Hit The Ground Cliff Richard
12 Bongo Blues Cliff Richard
13 Travellin' Light Cliff Richard
14 I'm Walkin' Cliff Richard
15 High Class Baby Cliff Richard
16 Mean Streak Cliff Richard
17 Steady With You Cliff Richard
18 Pointed Toe Shoes Cliff Richard
19 Mad About You Cliff Richard
20 Mean Woman Blues Cliff Richard
21 A Voice In The Wilderness Cliff Richard
22 Chinchilla Cliff Richard
23 Blue Suede Shoes Cliff Richard
24 No Turning Back Cliff Richard
25 Love Cliff Richard
26 Schoolboy Crush Cliff Richard
27 The Shrine On Zhe Second Floor Cliff Richard
28 Livin' Doll Cliff Richard
29 Twenty Flight Rock Cliff Richard
30 Pointed Toe Shoes Cliff Richard
31 The Snake And The Bookworm Cliff Richard
32 Here Comes Summer Cliff Richard
33 I Gotta Know Cliff Richard
34 Mean Woman Blues Cliff Richard
35 I'm Walkin' Cliff Richard
36 Blue Suede Shoes Cliff Richard
37 No Turning Back Cliff Richard
Richard, Cliff - Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD) CD 2
01 Apron Strings Cliff Richard
02 My Babe Cliff Richard
03 Down The Line Cliff Richard
04 I Got A Feeling Cliff Richard
05 Jet Black Cliff Richard
06 baby I Don't Care Cliff Richard
07 Donna Cliff Richard
08 Move It Cliff Richard
09 Ready Teddy Cliff Richard
10 Too Much Cliff Richard
11 Don't Bug Me Baby Cliff Richard
12 Driftin' Cliff Richard
13 That'll Be The Day Cliff Richard
14 Be-Bop-A-Lula Cliff Richard
15 Danny Cliff Richard
16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Cliff Richard
17 T.V. Hop Cliff Richard
18 Rockin' Robin Cliff Richard
19 High School Confidental Cliff Richard
20 Early In The Morning Cliff Richard
21 King Creole Cliff Richard
22 I'll Try Cliff Richard
23 Somebody Touched Me Cliff Richard
24 Turn Me Loose Cliff Richard
25 Three Cool Cats Cliff Richard
26 Early In The Morning Cliff Richard
27 As Time Goes By Cliff Richard
28 I'll String Along With You Cliff Richard
29 I Don't Know Why Cliff Richard
30 Somewhere Along The Way Cliff Richard
31 Embraceable You Cliff Richard
32 That's My Desire Cliff Richard
33 Little Thing Mean A Lot Cliff Richard
34 The Touch Of Your Lips Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard Since Cliff Richard made his chart debut with Move It in September 1958,... more
"Cliff Richard"

Cliff Richard

Since Cliff Richard made his chart debut with Move It in September 1958, popular music has changed beyond recognition. The record industry has progressed to such an extent that modern rock is almost entirely removed from the music of the Fifties in all but spirit. And Cliff Richard is probably the only British artist whose career has successfully embraced the numerous sociological, cultural and musical changes which have shaped the course of what is now a multi-million pound industry.

Born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, in October 1940, the future Cliff Richard's upbringing was unremarkable. When India was thrust into political turmoil in the late Forties his parents, Rodger and Dorothy Webb, decided to sell their belongings and sail to England on a passenger steamer from Bombay. Neither of Cliff's parents had ever lived in Britain and by emigrating they sacrificed comparative wealth for a virtually penniless new existence. On arrival they were driven from Tilbury Docks to Carshalton in Surrey where Cliff's maternal grandmother provided temporary refuge until her next-door neighbour lent the homeless family a spare room.

Rodger Webb eventually found employment and the family moved to another room in an aunt's house in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. A neighbour was so appalled at the Webb family's cramped living conditions that she asked a local council official to intervene, and in 1954 the six-strong family were moved to a council house on a quiet estate in Cheshunt.

It was at Cheshunt that Cliff first became interested in music. When his father had a small win on the pools, Dorothy Webb persuaded him to buy a record-player and Cliff was able to play guitar to the popular records of the period. He also excelled in athletics and played football for his school and for the county of Hertfordshire. But the rock 'n' roll music of Bill Haley and especially of Elvis Presley interested him more and would eventually change his life. He began to develop a vocal style by mimicking the popular singers of the day, and he later formed a school vocal group of two boys and three girls called the Quintones, which performed versions of current hits.

"I wanted to be a singer but I don't think I was too serious about it", he recalled in 1972. "It was my mother who always thought I would be a singer, from quite early on when I used to mess around and sing to the records we had. She would say, 'You're as good as all these others.' My Dad put a restraining hand on it all. It balanced my mother's enthusiasm, which was a good thing."

After leaving school at the age of 16, Cliff became a filing clerk at the Thorn electrical factory where his father worked in nearby Enfield. His first move in music was to join a local skiffle group as vocalist but soon left to form his own rock group, the Drifters, with drummer Terry Smart.

But the scene was already over-subscribed with well-intentioned amateurs, and the going was hard. By the spring of 1958, Harry Webb and the Drifters were still playing such local venues as the 'Five Horseshoes' in Hoddesdon and the 'Flamstead End Community Centre'.

Despite the limitations placed upon him by his backing group, Cliff showed distinct promise as a vocalist. His big break came in a talent show, a thing of the past today, but still hugely popular in the Fifties when a public weaned on Hollywood's celluloid glamour could be party to the birth of a potential star. In the summer of 1958, Cliff Richard and the Drifters appeared twice within a month at the 'Gaumont Theatre' in Shepherd's Bush, London.

Although the audience was comprised of local school-children who were prepared to scream at anything, the theatre provided an excellent showcase and John Foster, a young fan acting as Cliff's manager at the time, persuaded a veteran theatrical agent named George Ganjou to come along and see the show. Impressed more by Cliff's good looks and the audience response than by the music he heard, Ganjou arranged for a demo record to be made by the group. This he submitted to one of EMI's house-producers, Norrie Paramor, who was sufficiently impressed to audition the group in his office in the original EMI building in Great Castle Street, London.

In common with most of his middle-aged contemporaries, the 45 year-old Paramor originally felt alienated by rock 'n' roll, although it was his professional duty to respond to it. He had made a few token attempts to exploit it back in 1956 when he recorded Britain's first rock 'n' roll combo, Tony Crombie's Rockets, who were modelled on Bill Haley's Comets. Paramor ignored rock 'n' roll after that but in 1958 he produced a couple of consecutive Top Ten hits Lollipop and Book Of Love, for a semi-rock trio, the Mudlarks.

These successes had awakened Paramor's interest in rock, and it was at this opportune moment that the Drifters' demo came to his attention. At a time when British rock was a mere parody of US product, Paramor had a refreshingly realistic attitude: "It's an American phenomenon", he explained to 'Melody Maker', "and they do it best." Ironically, Paramor's first record with Cliff was to go some way to redressing the balance.

Paramor's original intention was to dispense with the Drifters and record Cliff with the Ken Jones Orchestra, the ensemble that had already provided the accompaniment for several Paramor hits including Michael Holliday's Story Of My Life and the Mudlarks' Lollipop. Had this been the case the result would have been a typically uninspired British Fifties pop record. But Cliff insisted on retaining the Drifters, and a compromise was reached: Cliff was placed under contract, but the Drifters - Terry Smart on drums and Ian Samwell on guitar - would merely be paid a session fee for their services.

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Tracklist
Richard, Cliff - Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD) CD 1
01 Livin' Lovin' Doll
02 Apron Strings
03 Move It
04 Twenty Flight Rock
05 Dynamite
06 Livin' Doll
07 The Snake And The Bookworm
08 Never Mind
09 Here Comes Summer
10 I Gotta Know
11 My Feet Hit The Ground
12 Bongo Blues
13 Travellin' Light
14 I'm Walkin'
15 High Class Baby
16 Mean Streak
17 Steady With You
18 Pointed Toe Shoes
19 Mad About You
20 Mean Woman Blues
21 A Voice In The Wilderness
22 Chinchilla
23 Blue Suede Shoes
24 No Turning Back
25 Love
26 Schoolboy Crush
27 The Shrine On Zhe Second Floor
28 Livin' Doll
29 Twenty Flight Rock
30 Pointed Toe Shoes
31 The Snake And The Bookworm
32 Here Comes Summer
33 I Gotta Know
34 Mean Woman Blues
35 I'm Walkin'
36 Blue Suede Shoes
37 No Turning Back
Richard, Cliff - Just About As Good As It Get (2-CD) CD 2
01 Apron Strings
02 My Babe
03 Down The Line
04 I Got A Feeling
05 Jet Black
06 baby I Don't Care
07 Donna
08 Move It
09 Ready Teddy
10 Too Much
11 Don't Bug Me Baby
12 Driftin'
13 That'll Be The Day
14 Be-Bop-A-Lula
15 Danny
16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
17 T.V. Hop
18 Rockin' Robin
19 High School Confidental
20 Early In The Morning
21 King Creole
22 I'll Try
23 Somebody Touched Me
24 Turn Me Loose
25 Three Cool Cats
26 Early In The Morning
27 As Time Goes By
28 I'll String Along With You
29 I Don't Know Why
30 Somewhere Along The Way
31 Embraceable You
32 That's My Desire
33 Little Thing Mean A Lot
34 The Touch Of Your Lips