Cliff Richard

[Hawkee]

I was listening to my Olivia Newton-John cd and discovered a ballad from the movie Xanadu called Suddenly which featured Olivia Newton-John singing a duet with a British singer called Cliff Richard and I would like to know if you remember Cliff Richard? He was very popular in the 70's and had his own TV show and was a top crush of girls in the UK. He released a song called We Don't Talk Anymore that was a minor hit in America. Cliff Richard also did a duet with Janet Jackson called Two To The Power Of Love in 1984. It's a surprise that Cliff Richard is still performing in the music scene today with lots of great songs
Bestie

[ABlairican Pie]

Cliff Richard was a very popular singer in the 60's (and if I recall, began his musical career in the late 50's) in England, as a member of the British Invasion band The Shadows. He was a teen idol sort back then with a "squeaky-clean" image which tied in with his later announcement that he had become a born-again Christian, even appearing at a Billy Graham crusade. In the mid-70's he was successful on American pop radio with his song called "Devil Woman", warning about witchcraft and the occult. He had a string of popular albums throughout the 80's and continues to have a thriving career in Britain.

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by LaBestia

I was listening to my Olivia Newton-John cd and discovered a ballad from the movie Xanadu called Suddenly which featured Olivia Newton-John singing a duet with a British singer called Cliff Richard and I would like to know if you remember Cliff Richard? He was very popular in the 70's and had his own TV show and was a top crush of girls in the UK. He released a song called We Don't Talk Anymore that was a minor hit in America. Cliff Richard also did a duet with Janet Jackson called Two To The Power Of Love in 1984. It's a surprise that Cliff Richard is still performing in the music scene today with lots of great songs
Bestie

He's one of the most commercially successful British artistes. He ain't countin' sheep, he's countin' his money.. https://youtu.be/htZir_Taizg

[1960'sTVfan]

I've never really followed Cliff Richard's career, but I like "Devil Woman", it's on my list of favorite hits from 1976.

[Hawkee]

Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

Cliff Richard was a very popular singer in the 60's (and if I recall, began his musical career in the late 50's) in England, as a member of the British Invasion band The Shadows. He was a teen idol sort back then with a "squeaky-clean" image which tied in with his later announcement that he had become a born-again Christian, even appearing at a Billy Graham crusade. In the mid-70's he was successful on American pop radio with his song called "Devil Woman", warning about witchcraft and the occult. He had a string of popular albums throughout the 80's and continues to have a thriving career in Britain.

Cliff Richard was a member of The Shadows? I didn't even know that much about Cliff Richard or The Shadows until I read in the liner notes of my Olivia Newton-John album and it mentioned quite a lot of info about The Shadows and that one of the other members of The Shadows who also wrote Olivia Newton-John's song Let Me Be There tragically passed away before the song became a hit. Another fact I discovered about Cliff Richard is that not only did he have Olivia Newton-John as a featured guest on his show but Cliff Richard discovered singer Helen Reddy and inspired her to go to America to be a successful star and the rest was history. It's amazing that Cliff Richard is still a huge superstar in the UK and I hope he is still singing for a long time
Bestie

[Edward216]

Cliff Richard is also well known here in America for the song We Don't Talk Anymore. Which was released in the early 80s if I remember.

Ed.

[Steve_uk]

Some People think this was his greatest ever hit: https://youtu.be/TWgUPcPNS_Q

[dakert]

I liked Cliff's songs "A Little In Love" and "Dreamin'"

[DadTheKing]

Hi, Bestie! His real name is Harry Roger Webb. No wonder they changed it to the much cooler "Cliff Richard". He has a great voice and should have been more popular here. Anybody know the real names of other singers? In the old dinosaur days, studios would change your name to fit whatever they thought the kids liked at the time.
DTK

[ABlairican Pie]

Originally Posted by DadTheKing

Hi, Bestie! His real name is Harry Roger Webb. No wonder they changed it to the much cooler "Cliff Richard". He has a great voice and should have been more popular here. Anybody know the real names of other singers? In the old dinosaur days, studios would change your name to fit whatever they thought the kids liked at the time.
DTK

That is true: One of the first rock and rollers was , Richie Valens, was Latino, but the industry felt it was better to shorten his name from Ritchie Valenzuela to Valens, because they thought white American audiences would better relate to a performer whose name was not so "ethnically different".

Here's a singer whose name was just SCREAMING for a name change: The late Jani Lane of Warrant was named, believe it or not, on his birth certificate, John Kennedy Oswald. It was later changed to John Patrick Oswald, but it still was a good idea to change it completely.

[Edward216]

Conway Twitty's real name was Harold Jenkins, which I don't think is so bad. He was a great country singer but I always thought Conway Twitty was a stupid name. He changed it himself, got the first and last names from a town in Texas and a town in Arkansas. I just don't know why you'd want your last name to be Twitty! LOL.

Ed.

[Steve_uk]

There's a documentary of sorts here, which possibly probes with a little too much prurience for my liking the course of this pop star's life, but I post it here not for that reason, but more for historical record. https://youtu.be/qcYd_pE7d4c

[biffbronson]

Here are my favorite Cliff Richard songs:

1. A Little in Love
2. Suddenly (duet with Olivia Newton-John)
3. We Don't Talk Anymore
4. Dreamin'
5. Devil Woman

[biffbronson]

Now 80 years old and still going strong.