Cliff Richard - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1971-1975

Here's another album of British singer Cliff Richard at the BBC. This is the last volume of him performing BBC studio sessions. There's more after this, but those are BBC concerts.

As with past volumes, everything here remains officially unreleased. All the songs come from "Top of the Pops" transcription discs, which means the sound quality is excellent. The music peters out in 1975 because that's around the time "Top of the Pops" switched from having artists perform in the studio to just playing their records. Actually, we're lucky to have the last two songs from 1975, since live in studio performances were rare for that radio show by that year. Thanks again to musical associate Marley for providing this material.

I like this volume better than the last one. That one had some sappy ballads with lots of strings. There are only one or two of those here. He plays more classics this time, like "Fire and Rain" and "Reason to Believe."

Five of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That's due to the usual problem of BBC DJs talking over the music. As usual, I used the audio editing program X-Minus to fix it.

This album is 54 minutes long.

UPDATE: On May 15, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. I added three songs I'd previously missed, "It's Only Me You've Left Behind," "Miss You Nights," and "Tomorrow Rising."

01 I [Who Have Nothing] (Cliff Richard)
02 Don't Move Away (Cliff Richard & Olivia Newton-John)
03 The Girl Can't Help It - Great Balls of Fire - Lucille - Jailhouse Rock - Do You Want to Dance (Cliff Richard)
04 Flying Machine [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
05 Nothing Rhymed [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
06 Pigeon [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
07 Fire and Rain [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
08 Silvery Rain [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
09 Reason to Believe (Cliff Richard)
10 Sing a Song of Freedom (Cliff Richard)
11 Can't Let You Go (Cliff Richard)
12 Power to All Our Friends (Cliff Richard)
13 Help It Along (Cliff Richard)
14 The Next Time (Cliff Richard)
15 Tomorrow Rising (Cliff Richard)
16 It's Only Me You've Left Behind (Cliff Richard)
17 Miss You Nights [Edit] (Cliff Richard)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t44kqJYG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Qq9mTn5SXixFDrO/file

The cover photo comes from a concert in London in 1973.