Don't Stop Me Now!

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Don't Stop Me Now!
Don't Stop Me Now! - Cliff Richard album.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1967 [1]
RecordedSeptember 1966 – February 1967 [1]
Studio EMI Abbey Road [1]
Genre Pop, Rock
Label Columbia - SCX 6133 [2]
Producer Norrie Paramor [1]
Cliff Richard chronology
Cinderella
(1967)
Don't Stop Me Now!
(1967)
Two a Penny
(1968)

Don't Stop Me Now! is the eleventh studio album by Cliff Richard, released in 1967. It is his twentieth album overall. The album was arranged and conducted by Mike Leander. [1] [2]

Contents

With this album, Richard made a "deep and serious thrust at establishing his mainstream pop/rock credentials" according to Bruce Eder of AllMusic. The album is made up of a mix of covers of rock 'n' roll standards and pop songs of the time, with what Eder describes as "brass and chorus-heavy arrangements". [3]

The album reached number 23 in the UK Album Charts in a 9 week run in the top 40. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Shout" (O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley)
  2. "One Fine Day" (Carole King, Gerry Goffin)
  3. "I'll Be Back" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  4. "Heartbeat" (Bob Montgomery, Norman Petty)
  5. "I Saw Her Standing There" (Lennon, McCartney)
  6. "Hang On to a Dream" (Tim Hardin)
  7. "You Gotta Tell Me" with Bruce Welch and Hank Marvin [A] (Roy Williams)
  8. "Homeward Bound" (Paul Simon)
  9. "Good Golly Miss Molly" (John Marascalco, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell)
  10. "Don't Make Promises" (Tim Hardin)
  11. "Move It" (re-recording) (Ian Samwell)
  12. "Don't" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  13. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams)
  14. "Baby It's You" (Burt Bacharach, Mack David, Barney Williams a.k.a. Luther Dixon)
  15. "My Babe" (Willie Dixon)
  16. "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Leiber, Stoller)
Notes:

Personnel

Taken from the sleeve notes, although they provide only scant details, as follows: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1991). Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990. London: Blandford. pp. 69–77, 170. ISBN   0-7137-2242-8.
  2. 1 2 3 Cliff Richard (1967). Don't Stop Me Now! (LP).
  3. Don't Stop Me Now at AllMusic
  4. "Cliff Richard UK Chart History". www.officialcharts.com. The Official UK Charts Company.