CLIFF RICHARD AND THE SHADOWS. "ME AND MY SHADOWS" COLUMBIA UK 1960 LP.EX COND

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Cliff Richard & The Shadows ?– Me And My Shadows

Label: EMI Columbia ?– 33SX 1261 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: UK Released: 1960 Genre: Rock Style: Rock & Roll

Tracklist

A1 I'm Gonna Get You A2 You And I A3 I Cannot Find A True Love A4 Evergreen Tree A5 She's Gone A6 Left Out Again A7 You're Just The One To Do It A8 Lamp Of Love B1 Choppin' 'n' Changin' B2 We Have It Made B3 Tell Me B4 Gee Wiz It's You B5 I Love You So B6 I'm Willing To Learn B7 I Don't Know B8 Working After School

Credits

Bass – Jet Harris
Drums – Tony Meehan
Guitar [Lead Guitar] – Hank B. Marvin*
Guitar [Rhythm Guitar] – Bruce Welch
Vocals – Cliff Richard

Notes

Columbia Long Playing 33? R.P.M. Record
E.M.I. Records Limited (Controlled By Electric & Musical Industries Limited)
Hayes ? Middlesex ?England

The Use Of "Emitex" Cleaning Material (Available From Record Dealers) Will Preserve This Record And Keep It Free From Dust

Printed and Made in Great Britain by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents Pending.

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Other (Rights / Society): B.I.E.M

review

[-]by Bruce Eder

Cliff Richard's third long-player and second studio album features him and the Shadows in a series of nicely played and beautifully recorded but mostly relatively undistinguished songs, nine of which were authored by the current Shadows membership or founding member Ian Samwell. With the exception of "I Don't Know," the latter's work tends toward Elvis Presley-style rockers (no surprise from the author of "Move It"), while the songs written by Hank Marvin, Jet Harris, and Bruce Welch are more lyrical. The best song here is "Evergreen Tree," a Ricky Nelson-style ballad, very much reminiscent of "Traveling Man," co-authored by Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold, on which the Shadows abandon their electric instruments for an all-acoustic spot -- a couple more songs like that and this album would have been a smash, and it's not like there isn't some good stuff scattered throughout. The Hank Marvin-Jet Harris-authored "She's Gone" is an unexpectedly strong piece of bluesy rock, at least musically, though the overly complex lyrics leave a little to be desired, and also shows the band trying for (and largely capturing) a sound similar to that on Presley's second album. Richard and company were also clearly trying for a softer sound on this LP, even brushing up against doo wop music in the intro of the beautiful ballad "Tell Me." The appeal of much of the material here is limited, however, as most of it is highly derivative of better American models -- even the hard-rocking "Choppin' 'N' Changin'" is pretty formulaic, albeit well played and loud, and "Gee Whiz It's You" is a valiant if somewhat failed attempt at capturing an American sound. "Working After School" would have been better off as a doo wop number, though Marvin's guitar does compensate for the absence of some vocal flourishes.

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