''The 50th Anniversary Album'' is a compilation album 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 ...

. The album was released by EMI on 3 November 2008 to mark his 50th Anniversary as a recording artist. The album features 50 tracks across two CDs. It includes Richard's 50th anniversary single "Thank You for a Lifetime" which reached No. 3 in the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

in September 2008.

Track listing

; CD one # "

Move It "Move It" is a song written by Ian Samwell and recorded by Cliff Richard and the Drifters (the English band that would later become "The Shadows"). Originally intended as the B-side to "Schoolboy Crush", it was released as Richard's debut sing ...

" (August 1958, No. 2) # " Living Doll" (July 1959, No. 1) # "

Travellin' Light "Travellin' Light" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, " Living Doll" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than "Living Doll"). "Tra ...

" (October 1959, "No. 1) # "

Please Don't Tease "Please Don't Tease" is a 1960 song recorded by Cliff Richard and the Shadows. Recorded in March and released as a single in June, the song became their third No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart spending three weeks at the summit. The song was written b ...

" (June 1960, No. 1) # "

Nine Times Out of Ten "Nine Times Out of Ten" is a song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, released as a single in September 1960. It peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and also received a silver disc for 250,000 sales. Background and release In a vote by a ...

" (September 1960, No. 3) # " I Love You" (December 1960, No. 1) # " The Young Ones" (January 1962, No. 1) # " I'm Looking Out the Window" (May 1962, No. 2) # "

Do You Wanna Dance? "Do You Want to Dance" is a song written by American singer Bobby Freeman and recorded by him in 1958. It reached number No. 5 on the United States ''Billboard'' Top 100 Sides pop chart and No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart. Cliff Richard ...

" (May 1962, No. 2 as B-side of "I'm Looking Out the Window") # " It'll Be Me" (August 1962, No. 2) # "

The Next Time "The Next Time" backed with "Bachelor Boy" was the first of three number one hit singles from the Cliff Richard musical, '' Summer Holiday''. Both sides were marketed as songs with chart potential, and the release is viewed retroactively as a dou ...

" (November 1962, No. 1) # "

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 hav ...

" (November 1962, No. 1) # " Summer Holiday" (February 1963, No. 1) # "

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 R&B si ...

" (May 1963, No. 4) # " It's All in the Game" (August 1963, No. 2) # "

Don't Talk to Him "Don't Talk to Him" is a song by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, released as a single in November 1963. It peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and received a silver disc for 250,000 sales. Background and release The music for "Don't Talk ...

" (November 1963, No. 2) # " Constantly" (April 1964, No. 4) # " On the Beach" (June 1964, No. 7) # "

The Twelfth of Never "The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song written in 1956 and first recorded by Johnny Mathis the following year. The title is a popular expression, which is used as the date of a future occurrence that will never come to pass. In the case of t ...

" (October 1964, No. 8) # "

I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You) "I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)" is a song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, released as a single in November 1964 from their album ''Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp''. It peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart and received a silve ...

" (November 1964, No. 6) # " The Minute You're Gone" (March 1965, No. 1) # " Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)" (October 1965, No. 2) # " In the Country" (December 1966, No. 6) # "

The Day I Met Marie "The Day I Met Marie" is a song by Cliff Richard, released as single in August 1967. The song was written by Hank Marvin and produced by Norrie Paramor. It reached number 10 on singles chart in both the UK and Ireland, number 5 in Australia, numbe ...

" (September 1967, No. 10) # "

Congratulations Congratulations may refer to: Film and television *'' Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest'', 2005 television programme to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary Music Albums * ''Congratulations'' (album), an album by ...

" (February 1968, No. 1) # "

Power to All Our Friends "Power to All Our Friends" is a song by Cliff Richard which was chosen as the entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, by a postal vote which was decided by BBC viewers after Richard performed six contending songs on ''A Song For Europe'', f ...

" (March 1973, No. 4) # "

Miss You Nights "Miss You Nights" is a song written by Dave Townsend and made famous worldwide by Cliff Richard. The song has been recorded by numerous other artists, most notably Westlife, who released it as the second track on a double A-side single in 2003 ...

" (January 1976, No. 15) # " Devil Woman" (April 1976, No. 9) # " We Don't Talk Anymore" (July 1979, No. 1) ; CD two # " Carrie" (January 1980, No. 4) # " Dreaming" (August 1980, No. 8) # " A Little in Love" (January 1981, No. 15) # "

Wired for Sound ''Wired for Sound'' is the 24th studio album by Cliff Richard, released in September 1981. The album peaked at number 4 in the UK album charts upon release, and spent a total of 25 weeks on the chart in 1981–82. The album was certified P ...

" (August 1981, No. 4) # " Daddy's Home" (live) (November 1981, No. 2) # " Little Town" (November 1982, No. 11) # " True Love Ways" (Live) (April 1983, No. 8) # " My Pretty One" (June 1987, No. 6) # " Some People" (August 1987, No. 3) # "

Mistletoe and Wine "Mistletoe and Wine" is a Christmas song made famous as a chart-topping single by Cliff Richard in 1988. The song was written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called ''Scraps'', which was an adaptation of Hans C ...

" (November 1988, No. 1) # " The Best of Me" (May 1989, No. 2) # "

Silhouettes A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhou ...

" (live) (August 1990, No. 10) # "

From a Distance "From a Distance" is a song written in 1985 by American singer-songwriter Julie Gold. Gold was working as a secretary at the time for HBO and writing songs in her free time. Gold's friend, Christine Lavin, introduced the song to Nanci Griffith, ...

" (October 1990, No. 11) # " Saviour's Day" (November 1990, No. 1) # " Peace in Our Time" (March 1993, No. 8) # " Can't Keep This Feeling In" (October 1998, No. 10) # "

The Millennium Prayer "The Millennium Prayer" is a song recorded by English singer Cliff Richard, in which the words of the Lord's Prayer are set to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne". It was released in November 1999 as a charity single in the lead-up to the new millenni ...

" (November 1999, No. 1) # " Somewhere Over the Rainbow"/"

What a Wonderful World "What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. It topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, but performed poor ...

" (December 2001, No. 11) # " 21st Century Christmas" (December 2006, No. 2) # "What Car" (May 2005, No. 12) # "

Thank You for a Lifetime "Thank You for a Lifetime" is a 2008 pop single by Cliff Richard to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his music career. The single release reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Cha ...

" (September 2008, No. 3)

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

References

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