Listen to Cliff!

Studio album by Cliff Richard

Released

April 1961

Genre

Rock and roll, pop standards

Length

39:51

Cliff Richard chronology

Me and My Shadows
(1960)

Listen to Cliff!
(1961)

21 Today
(1961)

Listen to Cliff! is the fourth album by singer Cliff Richard. It was released in April 1961 and reached No. 2 in the UK album chart, charting for 26 consecutive weeks and re-entering twice.

No singles were to be officially released from the album. None of the 1961 single releases are available on this album. The album mainly features covers of musicals and popular 30's and 40's songs. "Blue Moon" was issued as an export single. Tony Meehan was used as a session drummer with the NP orchestra.

This album was then re-marketed on the EP format into 2 EPs:

Listen to Cliff no.1 (mono)
Listen to Cliff no.2 (mono)

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"What'd I Say"	Ray Charles	3:03
2.	"Blue Moon"	Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers	3:32
3.	"True Love Will Come to You"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	2:58
4.	"Lover"	Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers	1:49
5.	"Unchained Melody"	Alex North, Hy Zaret	3:30
6.	"Idle Gossip"	Floyd Huddleston, Joseph Meyer	2:54
7.	"First Lesson in Love"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	1:56
8.	"Almost Like Being in Love"	Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe	2:05

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Beat out Dat Rhythm on a Drum"	Georges Bizet, Oscar Hammerstein II	1:59
2.	"Memories Linger On"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	2:40
3.	"Temptation"	Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed	2:24
4.	"I Live for You"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	2:15
5.	"Sentimental Journey"	Les Brown, Bud Green, Ben Homer	2:09
6.	"I Want You to Know"	Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino	2:29
7.	"We Kiss in a Shadow"	Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers	3:23
8.	"It's You"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	3:22

CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"True Love Will Come to You"	Peter Chester, Bruce Welch	2:42
18.	"I Want You to Know"	Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino	2:24

Release formats

Vinyl LP mono & stereo
Reel to Reel Tape.(?) mono.
CD mono
CD mono/stereo

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows

Production

Produced by Norrie Paramor
Engineered by Malcolm Addey

Cliff Richard

Albums (UK)

1950s:	Cliff (1959, live) Cliff Sings (1959)

1960s:	Me and My Shadows (1960) 21 Today (1961) Listen to Cliff! (1961) 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds (1962) The Young Ones (1962, soundtrack) Summer Holiday (1963, soundtrack) When in Spain (1963) Wonderful Life (1964, soundtrack) Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1964, stage show album) Cliff Richard (1965) When in Rome (1965) Love is Forever (1965) Kinda Latin Finders Keepers (1966, soundtrack) Cinderella (1967, soundtrack) Don't Stop Me Now (1967) Good News (1967, gospel) Cliff in Japan (1968, live) Two a Penny (1968, soundtrack) Established 1958 (1968) Sincerely Cliff (1969)

1970s:	About that Man (1970, gospel) His Land (1970, gospel) Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town (1970, live) Tracks 'n Grooves (1970) Take Me High (1974, soundtrack) Help It Along (1974, gospel) The 31st February Street (1974) I'm Nearly Famous (1976) Every Face Tells a Story (1977) Small Corners (1978, gospel) Green Light (1978) Thank You Very Much (1979, live) Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979)

1980s:	I'm No Hero (1980) Wired for Sound (1981) Now You See Me, Now You Don't (1982, gospel) Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live) Silver (1983) The Rock Connection (1984) Always Guaranteed (1987) Stronger (1989)

1990s:	From a Distance: The Event (1990, live) Together with Cliff Richard (1991) The Album (1993) Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album) Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live) Real as I Wanna Be (1998)

2000s:	Wanted (2001) Live at the ABC Kingston, 1962 (2002, live) Cliff at Christmas (2003) Something's Goin' On (2004) Cliff Richard - The World Tour (2004, live) Two's Company The Duets (2006) Love... The Album (2007, Part new songs, part compilation) Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows (2009)

2010s:	Bold as Brass (2010) Soulicious (2011) The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook (2013) Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll (2016)

EPs (UK)

Serious Charge
Expresso Bongo

Compilations (UK)

Cliff's Hit Album (1963)
More Hits by Cliff (1965)
The Best of Cliff (1969)
The Best of Cliff, Vol. 2 (1972)
40 Golden Greats (1977)
Love Songs (1981)
Walking in the Light (1984, Gospel)
Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988)
My Kinda Life (1992)
The Hit List (1994)
At the Movies 1959-1974 (1996)
Yesterday, Today, Forever (1997, Gospel)
The Whole Story: His Greatest Hits (2000)
The Platinum Collection (2005)
And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) (2008)
The 50th Anniversary Album (2008)
75 at 75 (2015)

Filmography

Serious Charge (1959)
Expresso Bongo (1959)
The Young Ones (Soundtrack album) (1961)
Summer Holiday (Soundtrack album) (1963)
Wonderful Life (Soundtrack album) (1964)
Finders Keepers (1966)
Two a Penny (1967)
Take Me High (1973)

Discography
Concert tours
The Shadows

Book:Cliff Richard

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