''Serious Charge'' is the first EP by

Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an Indian-born British musican, singer, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has total sales of over 21.5 million s ...

and

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, released in the UK in May 1959 as the

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for the 1959 film of the same name and produced by

Norrie Paramor Norman William Paramor (15 May 1914 – 9 September 1979), known professionally as Norrie Paramor, was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Ri ...

. The EP is a 7-inch 45 RPM

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, released in

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with the catalogue number Columbia SEG 7895. All four tracks were recorded on 28 April 1959 at

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. It was released nearly a year before the first UK EP Chart was published.

Track listing

;Side one #" Living Doll" (

Lionel Bart Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a British writer and composer of pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's "Rock with the Caveman" and was the sole creator of the musical '' Oliver!'' (1960). With ''Oliver!'' and his work ...

) #"No Turning Back" (Bart) ;Side two #"Mad About You"(Bart) #"Chinchilla" (

Randy Starr Randy Starr (born Warren Nadel, July 2, 1930) is an American dentist and singer-songwriter known for writing twelve songs for Elvis Presley. Early life Starr was educated at Columbia University where he took his undergraduate degree from Columb ...

, Dick Wolf) An instrumental by

References

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