Cliff Richard - Cliff Richard at the Movies 1959-1974 (1996)

Tracklist

CD1
01. No Turning Back (1996 Remaster)
02. Living Doll (1996 Remaster)
03. Mad About You (1996 Remaster)
04. Love (1996 Remaster)
05. A Voice in the Wilderness (EP Version) [1996 Remaster]
06. The Shrine on the Second Floor (1996 Remaster)
07. Friday Night (1996 Remaster)
08. Got a Funny Feeling (Alternate Take 30) [1996 Remaster]
09. Nothing's Impossible (1996 Remaster)
10. The Young Ones (Original Undubbed Master) [1996 Remaster]
11. Lessons in Love (1996 Remaster)
12. When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart (1996 Remaster)
13. We Say Yeah (1996 Remaster)
14. (It's) Wonderful to Be Young [Alternate Take 24] [1996 Remaster]
15. Outsider (1996 Remaster)
16. Seven Days to a Holiday (1996 Remaster)
17. Summer Holiday (1996 Remaster)
18. Let Us Take You for a Ride (1996 Remaster)
19. Stranger in Town (1996 Remaster)
20. Bachelor Boy (1996 Remaster)
21. A Swingin' Affair (1996 Remaster)
22. Dancing Shoes (1996 Remaster)
23. The Next Time (1996 Remaster)
24. Big News (1996 Remaster)
25. Wonderful Life (1996 Remaster)
26. A Girl in Every Port (1996 Remaster)
27. A Little Imagination (1996 Remaster) [Clean]
28. On the Beach (With Count In) [1996 Remaster]
29. Do You Remember (1996 Remaster)

CD2
01. Look Don't Touch (1996 Remaster)
02. In the Stars (1996 Remaster)
03. What've I Gotta Do (1996 Remaster)
04. A Matter of Moments (1996 Remaster)
05. Wonderful Life (Alternate Take 18) [1996 Remaster]
06. Shooting Star (1996 Remaster)
07. Finders Keepers (1996 Remaster)
08. Time Drags By (1996 Remaster)
09. Washerwoman (1996 Remaster)
10. La La La Song (1996 Remaster)
11. Oh Senorita (Extended Version) [1996 Remaster]
12. This Day (1996 Remaster)
13. Paella (1996 Remaster)
14. Two a Penny (1996 Remaster)
15. Twist and Shout (1996 Remaster)
16. I'll Love You Forever Today (1996 Remaster)
17. Questions (Film Version) [1996 Remaster]
18. It's Only Money (1996 Remaster)
19. Midnight Blue (1996 Remaster)
20. The Game (1996 Remaster)
21. Brumburger Duet (1996 Remaster)
22. Take Me High (1996 Remaster)
23. The Anti-Brotherhood of Man (1996 Remaster)
24. Winning (1996 Remaster)
25. The Young Ones (Film Version) [1996 Remaster]
26. Lessons in Love (1996 Remaster) [Clean]
27. Bachelor Boy (Film Version) [1996 Remaster]
28. Summer Holiday (Film Version-End Title) [1996 Remaster]

Though he never dredged the same depths as Elvis, there is little doubt that Cliff Richard made some really horrible movies. There were three of them -- Finders Keepers, Two a Penny, and the truly execrable Take Me High -- and one could search the earth for the rest of one's life and still never find anyone who would admit to enjoying them. So it's absolutely astonishing to discover that not only do the accompanying soundtracks stand proud alongside some of Richard's regular albums, they don't look too shoddy up there with his best ones, either. And the fact that category includes two other soundtracks just goes to prove your old granny was right all along. You really can't judge a movie score by the movie. At the time of his breakthrough, in 1958, Richard was (in the parlance of the day), "the boy who rocked the world." Little Richard was passe, Elvis was past it, Jerry Lee was, well, we've all seen Great Balls of Fire, so let's just leave it at that. So far as the British entertainment industry was concerned, America had already had its rock & rolling day; now it was their turn, and Cliff Richard was still coming down from his first hit single, the magnificent moodiness of "Move It," when he was co-opted for his first film, Serious Charge. The gritty realism of the movie's theme summed up Cliff's box office appeal. He was rough, he was tough, and the songs he performed on the soundtrack, "No Turning Back" and "Mad About You" (both making their CD debuts here), adhered perfectly to that image. So did a third number, the rollicking "Living Doll," but Richard soon changed that. Although the singer loved the song, he disliked its up-tempo rock arrangement, and by the time it became his first number one, "Living Doll" had been transformed into his first major ballad, and the template around which much of his subsequent career would be designed. Certainly it's no surprise that many of Richard's biggest hits over the next five years should also be ballads, or that the musical highlights of his next three movies would supply many of the most memorable examples. "A Voice in yhe Wilderness" and the magnificently maudlin "The Shrine on the Second Floor" (from Expresso Bongo, 1959); "When the Girl in Your Arms" (The Young Ones, 1961); and "Bachelor Boy" and "The Next Time" (Summer Holiday, 1962) are no strangers to a thousand best-of collections, and the only injustice is that their radiance often blinded listeners to some equally deserving material. Spread over two discs, and amply annotated in the accompanying booklet, At the Movies goes a long way toward remedying this travesty. Trimming the fat from the original soundtrack albums, it bolsters what's left with a handful of unissued alternate takes, and several more CD debutantes. And though the collectors' interest does wane as the second disc progresses toward Take Me High, still, At the Movies ends on a high note, with the original, and radically different, movie mixes of "The Young Ones," "Lessons in Love," and "Bachelor Boy," plus a sensational bazouki-powered "Summer Holiday."

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