Cliff Richards and the Shadows  

Cliff Richard and The Shadows were well before my time but I am very familiar with the songs and like them.

Do you remember when he did a remake of the song "Living Doll" with the guys from the TV show "The Young Ones" in the 1980's? This remake and the TV show remind me of when I was a "Young One!" I have the TV series on DVD. It is hilarious, but not as enjoyable now as when I was a kid!

I also grew up to the sounds of Cliff Richards and the Shadows and remember watching the film, The Young Ones in a local cinema. In fact we had to queue to get in! I became a musician (keyboards) and in my teens started a pop group. Beatles and soul was starting to come in then. Our first group never really got anywhere, but I later went up to Manchester and was playing with pro. bands before freelancing. Yes, listening to Cliff Richards brings back memories and each song from each artist holds its own nostalgia for me. _Derek

I wasn't sure anybody would know of him I always love his music he was a great singer I was surprise you knew of him.

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Hello, Veejay. I first saw Cliff Richard live in Blackpool, England almost 50 years ago. I still love his music and regularly play my Cliff CDs. Hard to believe he'll be 70 in October.

When 'Summer Holiday' came out, I went to the cinema to see it and sat through it 3 times! I was only around 11 at the time, and my parents were frantic with worry when I got back - particularly because at the time there were a couple of unsolved murders of girls around that age locally. It's the only time I remember my father getting really mad at me - usually, I could wind him around my little finger, but he was furious with me.

Wow! Talk about young days...
I was about 9 years old at the time when I first heard Cliff & The Shadows.
I can still remember how some of the girls in my grade school used to go "ga-ga" over his looks. He always reminded me of Kookie Ed Burns (of 77 Sunset Strip TV series fame), or the likes of Buddy Holly, with the way that they both combed their hair.

But he had that sweeeet soft-cool voice, kinda Ricky Nelson like, that anyone during those days, just had to love.

Thank you for that memory.
I had almost forgotten about him.


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Hi vijay
You are right nostalgia sets in when you think of the good old days - and thanks to the internet all that can be partly relived!!

And another good piece of music by Shadows was "Apache".
And I do listen to all the old so called evergreens - of course on the internet- by others of that time- Tom Jones, englebert humperdink, pat boone, jim reeves, dean martin, nat king cole, etc etc etc

And by the way if I am right I think we saw the Cliff Richards film together- didn't we?

This is really weird. I was JUST talking about Cliff Richard with my son. We used to watch a TV program called 'The Young Ones' which, of course, is a song that Cliff Richard and the Shadows wrote and the title of a very funny comedy series. We'd watch it every week until it went off the air. My son was so taken by the show that he recently bought the series on DVD.

Actually, I was reminded of The Young Ones and Cliff Richard recently by one of my more flirtatious friends here at myLot who gave me a link to Cliff singing which, of course, led to the whole nostalgic thing. (Thanks, Dogg! )

I am very familiar with Cliff Richards and The Shadows although their music was a little before my time. I grew up with Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney and Wings, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, The Bee Gees just to name a few. I love hearing music from my growing years; it takes me back to a very different place and it can be quite emotional.

Does anyone remember Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the movie "Thunderbirds Are Go" from 1966? This was a movie based on the Gerry Anderson "Thunderbirds" TV show. It was wild seeing Cliff sing and dance in "Super-marionation".

You can see a clip on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSQWvaln6mA

If you like the instrumental music of the Shadows, you might like the Ventures, an American instrumental group from the 1960s that did similar, guitar-based music. They are still around, touring and recording. Their website is: http://www.theventures.com/