"Expresso Bongo (film) Expresso Bongo is a 1959 film satire of the music industry directed by Val Guest, shot in an uncredited Dyaliscope and starring Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, and Yolande Donlan.. It is adapted from the stage musical of the same name, which was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London, on 23 April 1958. In the film, Cliff Richard and the Shadows made their second screen appearance in a film released during 1959, the first being the much darker ""Serious Charge"". The later film was made at Shepperton Studios, near London, with certain scenes shot"
"Richard could not make the show and that well-known BBC presenter John Craven would be taking his place. They then introduced Craven, but it was Richard who appeared. There are many references to Cliff Richard in ""The Young Ones"", preluding their collaboration, including: Performers: Musicians: Weekly charts Year-end charts Living Doll (song) ""Living Doll"" is a song written by Lionel Bart made popular by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still 'the Drifters') in 1959. It was the top selling single in the UK in 1959. It has topped the UK charts twice: in its original version in 1959 (their"
"formation of the charity Comic Relief provided an unusual song from Cliff Richard, a singer with several huge hits in the 1950s and '60s. He teamed up with the cast of the popular sitcom The Young Ones (itself named after a Richard song) for a new version of his 1959 single ""Living Doll"", half sung by Richard and half shouted by the Young Ones cast. With proceeds going to the charity, it reached number one for three weeks and was Richard's first number 1 of the decade. Another novelty number one was ""The Chicken Song"", sung by the cast of"
"includes a role by Cliff Richard, then a teenage pop idol, as Larry Thompson's younger brother, Curley. Richard sings three songs, although none is heard in its entirety: ""No Turning Back"", ""Mad About You"", and ""Living Doll"" – the last is a different version from that which became a No. 1 hit in the British charts. A fellow delinquent character was played by another 1950s rock and roll star, the uncredited Jess Conrad in an early acting performance. There are fleeting images of female nudity in the scenes of the young people in the lido, very unusual for British films"
"a number one hit for Cliff Richard, ""Living Doll"" was re-recorded by The Young Ones and Richard for Comic Relief, and spent another three weeks at number one. Bart is also credited as being the first manager of The Rolling Stones, and at one stage was Judy Garland's manager. Bart's first professional musical was 1959's ""Lock Up Your Daughters"", based on the 18th-century play ""Rape upon Rape"" by Henry Fielding. Following that, ""Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"" produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, was a landmark in British theatre, noted for encouraging the use of authentic Cockney accents on"
"one singles on the UK Singles Chart, including the unique distinction of having two versions of the same song hitting number-one on the singles chart. ""Living Doll"" first topped the charts in 1959, then again 26 years later in a re-recording for the Comic Relief charity with the cast of ""The Young Ones (TV series)"". Richard also has the distinction of being the only artist to have achieved UK number-one singles in five consecutive decades, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Richard has also achieved 7 number one albums on the UK Albums Chart in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and"
"accompanying ""Neil's Heavy Concept Album"", a loose collection of songs and spoken comedy, included appearances by ""The Young Ones"" alumni Dawn French and Stephen Fry. In 1986 the cast sang ""Living Doll"" with Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin for Comic Relief. The song, a reworking of his 1959 hit, reached the top of the UK, Australian, and New Zealand Charts. Eleven of the twelve episodes had a musical guest performing in the house or street. By including the groups, the show qualified as variety rather than light entertainment by the BBC and was allocated a bigger budget than a sitcom."
"the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, ""High Class Baby"" and ""Livin' Lovin' Doll"", were followed by ""Mean Streak"", which carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion, and Lionel Bart's ""Living Doll"". It was on ""Living Doll"" that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. It was his fifth record and became his first No. 1 single. By that time, the group's line-up had changed with the arrival of Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. The group was obliged to change its name to ""The Shadows"" after legal complications with"
"combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (""Living Doll"" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single"
"also made the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 16. Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with"
"Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with the American band of the same name). The B-side, ""Dynamite"""
"as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals ""Make Me an Offer"", the English-language version of ""Irma la Douce"" (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award), and ""Expresso Bongo"" (which ""Time Out"" called the first rock and roll musical). ""Expresso Bongo"", written by Wolf Mankowitz was a West End hit, and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard). Later musicals"
"Sunday morning in October 1958 while reading a newspaper and seeing an advert for a child's doll. The doll was said to ""kneel, walk, sit and sing"". Bart recounted, ""I was looking at the back pages and there was a small advert for a doll which could apparently do everything. I wrote the song in ten minutes."" The song was written as an up-tempo light rock and roll song (rather than a ballad), and this is how Cliff Richard performs the song in the film. Unbeknown to Richard, his contract to appear in the film required that there would be"
"1959 had released his only US hit (as of 1961) ""Living Doll"" (#30) - ""When the Girl in Your Arms..."" was not given a US release concurrent with its UK charting, as ABC-Parmamount felt it prudent to await the American opening of the track's parent movie ""The Young Ones"". Connie Francis heard Richard's hit while visiting the UK and in an unusual move Francis - whose singles were typically remakes of traditional pop standards or original material - covered Richard's UK hit in a 2 November 1961 session in New York City produced by Arnold Maxin with Don Costa as"
"by teaming up with The Young Ones to re-record his smash hit ""Living Doll"" for the charity Comic Relief. Along with the song, the recording contained comedy dialogue between Richard and the Young Ones. That same year Richard opened in the West End as a rock musician called upon to defend Earth in a trial set in the Andromeda Galaxy in the multi-media Dave Clark musical ""Time"". Three Richard singles, ""She's So Beautiful"", which reached No. 17 in the UK, ""It's In Every One of Us"" and ""Born To Rock 'n Roll"", were released over 1985 and 1986 from the"
"Cliff Richard and the cast of ""The Young Ones"" in a rendition of ""Living Doll"". Some of the money raised from the sale of each single is donated to Comic Relief. Normally a song is released just before the official Red Nose Day. There have been exceptions, such as ""(I want to be) Elected"" which was released to coincide with the 1992 UK general election. Before 1995's song, they were all more-or-less comedy records, mostly involving an actual band or singer, and a comedy group. From 1995 on, they have been generally more serious, although the videos still feature comical"
"Cliff Sings Cliff Sings is the second album by British vocalist Cliff Richard, however as his first album, simply titled Cliff was recorded live, it is considered his first conventional studio album. It was released in November 1959 through EMI Columbia Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. It reached No. 2 in the UK album chart. No singles were released from the album in the UK (as was often the case prior to the 1970s). The album is split between rock 'n' roll and traditional pop standard covers. It is also the beginning of a repeated pattern in Richard's"
"case. Cliff Richard's 1958 hit ""Move It"" is widely regarded as the first authentic British rock and roll record, and ""laid the foundations"" for the Beatles and Merseybeat music. John Lennon said of Richard: ""before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music"". In contrast with contemporaries such as Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Adam Faith, his successful performing and recording career in the UK has extended over several decades. Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has"
"months of 1963. The film suggested to the photographer Daniel Meadows a way in which he might emulate Benjamin Stone and travel around and photograph Britain from 1973 to 1974. It was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll. ""Summer Holiday"" was adapted into a stage musical in the mid-1990s starring Darren Day in the role that Cliff Richard played. It premiered for a summer season at The Opera House in Blackpool in 1996, and then later toured nationally, before returning to Blackpool in 1998. The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Hilary O'Neil,"
"""Oh Boy!"" (Parlophone 1958), where he sang ""Hey Hey Hey Hey"" (later covered by The Beatles) and ""Lets Rock While the Rocking's Good"". A solo single ""Later"" b/w ""Lots More Love"" was released in 1959, and in 1960 he appeared, as himself, in the film ""Girls of the Latin Quarter"", directed by Alfred Travers and starring Jill Ireland, which was filmed in the London branch of the nightclub Latin Quarter. He also deputised for Cliff Richard, appearing at several concerts when Cliff was ill. After the demise of Oh Boy! in May 1959, he began touring with his own all-black"
"Cliff's Hit Album Cliff's Hit Album is Cliff Richard's first compilation album and ninth album overall. It was released in July 1963 and reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. The album contains 14 songs from his singles released between August 1958 and May 1962. It includes all Richard's singles in this period that made the top 3 of the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, the album was retitled ""Living Doll"" and was released in September 1963 and spent three weeks at number 1 on ""Chum's Album Index"" during October and eight weeks in the top 5 altogether. ""Cliff's"
"Rag Doll (film) Rag Doll, released in the US as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring actor and singer Jess Conrad. The film gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Conrad's elevation to cult status as a purveyor of late-1950s and early-1960s pre-Beatles British kitsch, and received a Region 2 DVD release in 2009 in a double bill with Comfort's 1962 film ""The Painted Smile"". Seventeen-year-old Carol (Christina Gregg) flees her small-town home to escape from her alcoholic stepfather, and heads off to London to live"
"of film. Wonderful Life (1964 film) Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third (although the least successful) in a series of film musicals that included ""The Young Ones"" and ""Summer Holiday"". Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the ""desert"" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand"
"Summer Holiday (1963 film) Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates (his debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). The cast includes Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Lionel Murton, Madge Ryan, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps, Ron Moody and The Shadows. Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers. The film had its World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in London's"
"Two a Penny Two a Penny is a 1967 British film, released nationally in 1968, featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by James F. Collier and produced by Frank R. Jacobson for Billy Graham's film distribution and production company World Wide Pictures. The original story and screenplay was written by Stella Linden. The cast included Ann Holloway, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers, Geoffrey Bayldon, Peter Barkworth, Mona Washbourne, Earl Cameron, Charles Lloyd-Pack, and Billy Graham himself, filmed at his ""London Crusade"" in 1967. Jamie Hopkins (Cliff Richard), an art student and frustrated pop star lives with his mother (Dora"
"decides to do ""one last job"" to make the money to take them to a fresh start in Canada. He burgles Mort's house, but Mort catches him. After shooting Mort dead, Joe, himself severely wounded, goes on the lam with Caro. Rag Doll (film) Rag Doll, released in the US as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British B-movie crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring actor and singer Jess Conrad. The film gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Conrad's elevation to cult status as a purveyor of late-1950s and early-1960s pre-Beatles British kitsch,"
"Wonderful Life (1964 film) Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third (although the least successful) in a series of film musicals that included ""The Young Ones"" and ""Summer Holiday"". Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the ""desert"" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand dunes on"
"Young Ones"". The stage musical was revived in 2003, starring Stefan Booth but later starring Darren Day again. This production also included Day's future partner Suzanne Shaw (from the pop group Hear'say) as Bobby and, as Shaw's mother, Aimi MacDonald. The production toured the UK. Summer Holiday (1963 film) Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates (his debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). The cast includes"
"the rooftop of a skyscraper. ""Paddington"" (2014) features several London locations, and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye. Cliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s. The first of these, ""The Young Ones"" (1961), was set in London. Cliff, The Shadows, and others need money to save their youth club, so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show. Although Cliff's second hit, ""Summer Holiday"" (1963), mostly took place while driving across Europe, it prominently featured a red London AEC, RT bus. The"
"The Lively Ones The Lively Ones are an instrumental surf rock band from USA, active in Southern California in the 1960s. They played live mostly in California and Arizona. They recorded for Del-Fi records with production from Bob Keane. They recorded mostly cover songs, but there were a few originals. Their 1963 song ""Surf Rider"" (written by Nokie Edwards from The Ventures) was featured in the final sequence as well as the end credits of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"". They are best known with these members: Currently, John Benton plays rhythm/alternate lead guitar and Tracy Sands plays bass"
"China Doll (film) China Doll (a.k.a. ""Time Is a Memory"") is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Li-Hua. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet ""offbeat"" film. In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar. One night, while"
"out by war."" China Doll (film) China Doll (a.k.a. ""Time Is a Memory"") is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Li-Hua. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet ""offbeat"" film. In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar."
"Devil Woman ""Devil Woman"" is a 1976 hit single for Cliff Richard from his album ""I'm Nearly Famous"". The song saw a recent resurgence in popularity, being used in the film ""I, Tonya"" (2017), as the theme for the character of LaVona Golden, played by Allison Janney. ""Devil Woman"" was written by Terry Britten and Christine Holmes (singer of the Family Dogg) and also recorded by Holmes under the name ""Kristine"". A No. 9 UK hit in June 1976, ""Devil Woman"" became Richard's first single to reach the Top 20 in the US, reaching No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot"