Monday 10/17/22 9am ET: Feature Artist / Feature LP: Cliff Richard – The Hit List: The Best of 35 Years (1994)

Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; October 14, 1940) is an English singer who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single “Move It” is often described as Britain’s first authentic rock and roll song. In the early 1960s, he had a prosperous film career with films including The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.

Over a career spanning 60 years, Richard has amassed several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles, albums, and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist (behind Presley). He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles, and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in each of five consecutive decades. He also had four UK Christmas No. 1 singles, two of which were as a solo artist; “Mistletoe and Wine” and “Saviour’s Day”.

Richard has never achieved the same popularity in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling “Devil Woman” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”. In Canada, he had a successful period in the early 1960s, the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some releases certified gold and platinum. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality at home in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and retains a following in other countries. When not touring, he divides his time between Barbados and Portugal. In 2019, he relocated to New York.

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The Hit List, released with the subtitle The Best of 35 Years, is a compilation album by English singer Cliff Richard. Released October 3, 1994, the album reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum in the UK. The album celebrates Richard’s 35th anniversary in the music industry and compiled all of Richard’s top 5 UK hit singles, which coincidentally totaled 35 at the time. Two bonus tracks were also chosen by Richard for the album – “Miss You Nights”, at the request of fans for a re-release, and “Green Light” a favorite of Richard’s.

Partially in support of the album, the double A-side single “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Miss You Nights” was released in late November. Although “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (a live recording with Phil Everly) was not included on the album, “Miss You Nights” was. The single reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.

“Move It” (with The Drifters)
“Living Doll” (with The Drifters)
“Travellin’ Light” (with The Shadows)
“A Voice in the Wilderness” (with The Shadows)
“Fall in Love with You” (with The Shadows)
“Please Don’t Tease” (with The Shadows)
“Nine Times Out of Ten” (with The Shadows)
“I Love You” (with The Shadows)
“Theme for a Dream” (with The Shadows)
“Gee Whiz It’s You” (with The Shadows)
“A Girl Like You” (with The Shadows)
“When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart” (with Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra)
“The Young Ones” (with The Shadows)
“Do You Wanna Dance” (with The Shadows)
“It’ll Be Me” (with The Shadows)
“The Next Time” (with The Shadows and the Norrie Paramor Strings)
“Bachelor Boy” (with The Shadows)
“Summer Holiday” (with The Shadows and the Norrie Paramor Strings)
“Lucky Lips” (with The Shadows)
“It’s All in the Game”
“Don’t Talk to Him” (with The Shadows)
“Constantly”
“The Minute You’re Gone”
“Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)”
“Congratulations”
“Power to All Our Friends”
“We Don’t Talk Anymore”
“Carrie”
“Wired for Sound”
“Daddy’s Home”
“Some People”
“Mistletoe and Wine”
“The Best of Me”
“I Just Don’t Have the Heart”
“Saviour’s Day”
“Miss You Nights”
“Green Light”

Artist Countdown: Cliff Richard Top 35 Hits 6pm ET @TheRealSirCliff

Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in the United Kingdom’s history, with total sales of over 21 million units in the UK[2] and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.

With his backing group the Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single “Move It” is often described as Britain’s first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that “before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.” Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into contemporary Christian music.

Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in 5 consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 1990s. In 2008, he celebrated his 50th anniversary in music by releasing a greatest hits album, featuring new track “Thank You for a Lifetime“, which reached number 3 in the UK singles chart. His latest album, Soulicious, was released in October 2011. The album was supported by a short UK arena tour and gave Richard his 41st top ten UK hit album.

Richard has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling “Devil Woman” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”, the latter becoming the first to reach the Billboard Hot 100‘s top 40 in the 1980s by a singer who had been in the top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Canada, Richard achieved moderate success in the 1980s with several albums reaching platinum status. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and he retains a following in other countries.n by Mercury as a tribute to Elvis Presley.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	We Don’t Talk Anymore
2	Power to All Our Friends
3	Living Doll with The Young Ones and featuring Hank Marvin
4	Dreamin’
5	Daddy’s Home
6	Wired For Sound
7	Carrie
8	Some People
9	The Millennium Prayer
10	Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha
11	The Only Way Out
12	Never Say Die (Give a Little Bit More)
13	Devil Woman
14	A Little in Love
15	The Best of Me
16	True Love Ways
17	She’s So Beautiful
18	Suddenly (with Olivia Newton-John)
19	My Kinda Life
20	I Can’t Ask For Anymore Than You
21	Take Me High
22	Lean on You
23	Hey Mr. Dream Maker
24	Little Town
25	Silhouettes
26	Where Do We Go From Here?
27	Hot Shot
28	Give A Little Bit More
29	Green Light
30	Whenever God Shines His Light (with Van Morrison)
31	Slow Rivers (with Elton John)
32	You Keep Me Hangin’ On
33	Don’t Turn Out The Light
34	Help It Along
35	Tomorrow Rising