''Cliff's Hit Album'' is

Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart histo ...

's first

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and ninth album overall. It was released in July 1963 and reached number 2 on the

UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the O ...

. The album contains 14 songs from his singles released between August 1958 and May 1962. It includes all Richard's singles in this period that made the top 3 of the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, the album was retitled ''"Living Doll"'' and was released in September 1963 and spent three weeks at number 1 on '' Chum's Album Index'' during October and eight weeks in the top 5 altogether.

Release

''Cliff's Hit Album'' was released as an

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on Columbia in the UK in July 1963. It has not been released on CD, but all tracks are available on other

s. The Canadian version of the album titled ''Living Doll'' was released on

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and tailored the track-listing to include two recent Canadian hits "

Bachelor Boy "Bachelor Boy" is a song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, written by Richard and Bruce Welch (from the Shadows). It became a hit when it was released as the B-side of Richard's single " The Next Time". Both sides of the single were regarded as ha ...

" and "

Lucky Lips Lucky Lips is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by Ruth Brown in 1956 and was successfully covered by Cliff Richard in 1963. Ruth Brown and early cover versions The song was first recorded by the ...

" while excluding " A Voice in the Wilderness" and " I'm Looking Out the Window" which had not charted locally.See T-6043, Cliff Richard ''Living Doll'' album.

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals *

Hank Marvin Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows. Early life and career Marvin was born as Brian Robson Rankin at ...

– lead guitar, backing vocals *

Bruce Welch Bruce Cripps (born 2 November 1941), known professionally as Bruce Welch, is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows. Early life Bruce Welch was born in Bognor Regis in ...

– rhythm guitar, backing vocals *

Jet Harris Terence "Jet" Harris (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011) was an English rock and roll musician. He was an original member of Cliff Richard's backing band the Shadows, serving as the bass guitarist from the group's inception until April 1962, aft ...

– bass guitar *

Tony Meehan Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005) was a founder member of the British group the Drifters with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, which evolved into the Shadows. He played drums on early Cliff Richard and ...

– drums *

Brian Bennett Brian Laurence Bennett (born 9 February 1940) is an English drummer, pianist, composer and producer of popular music. He is best known as the drummer of the UK rock and roll group the Shadows. He is the father of musician and Shadows band memb ...

– drums (tracks 6 and 7, side two) * Mike Sammes Singers – backing vocals (track 2 and 4, side two) *

Norrie Paramor Norman William "Norrie" Paramor (15 May 1913 – 9 September 1979) was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, both togethe ...

– his orchestra

Chart performance

Note: Many countries did not have Album charts in 1963.

References

{{Authority control Cliff Richard compilation albums 1962 compilation albums EMI Columbia Records albums Albums produced by Norrie Paramor