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Cliff Richard: 40 Golden Hits (2-CD)

(1989/EMI) 40 tracks 1958-77

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Interpret: Cliff Richard
Album titlle: 40 Golden Hits (2-CD)
Label EMI
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0077779242528
weight in Kg 0.21

Richard, Cliff - 40 Golden Hits (2-CD) CD 1
01	Move It	Cliff Richard
02	Livin' Doll	Cliff Richard
03	Travelin' Light	Cliff Richard
04	Fall In Love With You	Cliff Richard
05	Please Don't Tease	Cliff Richard
06	Nine Times Out Of Ten	Cliff Richard
07	Theme For A Dream	Cliff Richard
08	Gee Whizz It's You	Cliff Richard
09	When The Girl In Your Arms	Cliff Richard
10	A Girl Like You	Cliff Richard
11	The Young Ones	Cliff Richard
12	Do You Want To Dance?	Cliff Richard
13	I'm Lookin' Out The Window	Cliff Richard
14	It'll Be Me	Cliff Richard
15	Bachelor Boy	Cliff Richard
16	The Next Time	Cliff Richard
17	Summer Holiday	Cliff Richard
18	Lucky Lips	Cliff Richard
19	It's All In The Game	Cliff Richard
20	Don't Talk To Him	Cliff Richard

Richard, Cliff - 40 Golden Hits (2-CD) CD 2
01	Constantly	Cliff Richard
02	On The Beach	Cliff Richard
03	I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)	Cliff Richard
04	The Minute You're Gone	Cliff Richard
05	Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)	Cliff Richard
06	Visions	Cliff Richard
07	Blue Turns To Grey	Cliff Richard
08	In The Country	Cliff Richard
09	The Day I Met Marie	Cliff Richard
10	All My Love	Cliff Richard
11	Congratulations	Cliff Richard
12	Throw Down A Line	Cliff Richard
13	Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha	Cliff Richard
14	Sing A Song Of Freedom	Cliff Richard
15	Power To All Our Friends	Cliff Richard
16	(You Keep Me) Hangin' On	Cliff Richard
17	Miss You Nights	Cliff Richard
18	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard
19	I Can't Ask For Anymore Than You	Cliff Richard
20	My Kinda Life	Cliff Richard

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"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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