Cliff Richard - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1961-1966

This is the second of six albums of Cliff Richard at the BBC that I plan to post.  

This one was tricky to make because Richard was a big star in Britain all through this time period, with many hits, but it seems that there are very few BBC recordings. That's not surprising, since not many BBC recordings from 1964 or earlier have surprised, with a few exceptions, such as recordings by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. The only ones here that are BBC studio sessions are tracks 9, and 13 through 17. 

So I've added in some TV performances I found on YouTube. These help fill in the missing gaps somewhat, although there are many more hits from the time period not included here. Note that all the performances here are officially unreleased. I could have included others, but I wanted to keep the sound quality level high.

Richard was such a big star in 1961 that he hosted his own TV show, simply called "Cliff!" The first seven tracks are taken from that show. Some of the songs were never released by him in any form, such as "Fever," "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," and "Goodness Gracious Me." 

"Do You Want to Dance" is taken from an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Tracks 10 through 12 come from an unknown TV show in Belgium in 1964. There are a few other songs from that show that I didn't include (you can watch the whole thing on YouTube) because I have them in other versions in this series.

Note that two of the actual BBC sessions songs have "[Edit]" in their names. This is due to the usual problem of BBC DJs talking over the music. I applied the usual solution, using the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe out the talking but keep the music.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 King Creole (Cliff Richard)
02 Almost like Being in Love (Cliff Richard)
03 Travellin' Light (Cliff Richard)
04 I Wish I Were in Love Again (Cliff Richard & Petula Clark)
05 Fever (Cliff Richard)
06 In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (Cliff Richard)
07 Goodness Gracious Me (Cliff Richard & Jill Browne)
08 Do You Want to Dance (Cliff Richard)
09 Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
10 Constantly (Cliff Richard)
11 I Got a Woman (Cliff Richard)
12 I'm the Lonely One (Cliff Richard)
13 I Could Easily Fall (Cliff Richard)
14 Wind Me Up [Let Me Go] (Cliff Richard)
15 Angel [Edit] (Cliff Richard)
16 Blue Turns to Grey (Cliff Richard)
17 Bachelor Boy [Edit] (Cliff Richard)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373095/CLIFFR1961-1966BBSssonsVlum2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo dates to 1960.