Summer Holiday (album)

Summer Holiday
Soundtrack album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Released 18 January 1963
Recorded May - November 1962
Genre Pop, rock
Label Columbia (EMI) 33SX1472 (mono), SCX3462 (stereo)
Producer Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and The Shadows chronology
32 Minutes and 17 Seconds
(1962)		 Summer Holiday
(1963)		 Cliff's Hit Album
(1963)
Singles from Summer Holiday
  1. "The Next Time"/"Bachelor Boy"
    Released: December 1962
  2. "Summer Holiday"/"Dancing Shoes"
    Released: February 1963
  3. "Foot Tapper"
    Released: March 1963

Summer Holiday is an album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows. It is the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The album itself topped the UK Albums Chart and three tracks from the album were equally successful topping the UK Singles Charts as number-one singles. A double album "special edition" (limited to 80 copies) was given to the cast and crew of the movie and is now very collectable, selling for around £500 .

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Seven Days to a Holiday" (Cliff Richard, The A.B.S. Orchestra, The Michael Sammes Singers)
  2. "Summer Holiday" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Norrie Paramor Strings)
  3. "Let Us Take You for a Ride" (Cliff Richard, The A.B.S. Orchestra, The Michael Sammes Singers)
  4. "Les Girls" (The Shadows)
  5. "Round and Round" (The Shadows)
  6. "Foot Tapper" (The Shadows)
  7. "Stranger in Town" (Cliff Richard, The A.B.S. Orchestra)
  8. "Orlando's Mime" (The A.B.S. Orchestra)

Side two

  1. "Bachelor Boy" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Michael Sammes Singers)
  2. "A Swingin' Affair" (Cliff Richard, Grazina Frame, The A.B.S. Orchestra)
  3. "Really Waltzing" (Cliff Richard, The A.B.S. Orchestra, The Michael Sammes Singers)
  4. "All At Once" (Cliff Richard, The A.B.S. Orchestra)
  5. "Dancing Shoes" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows)
  6. "Jugoslav Wedding" (The A.B.S. Orchestra)
  7. "The Next Time" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Norrie Paramor Strings)
  8. "Big News" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows)

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows

Chart performance

Chart (1963) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[1] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[2] 1
Preceded by
Out of the Shadows by The Shadows		 UK Albums Chart number-one album
2 February 1963 – 11 May 1963 		Succeeded by
Please Please Me by The Beatles

References

  1. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Gilde, Torre (1994). Den Store Norske Hitboka: en komplett guide til populaermuikken i norge 1958-1993 (doc). Oslo: Exlex. ISBN 82-7776-000-0.
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