Love is Forever (Cliff Richard album)

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Love Is Forever
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Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released November 1965
Recorded Jun-Aug 1964, May-Jun 1965
Studio EMI Abbey Road, CBS 30th Street, New York City
Genre Pop, Easy Listening
Label Columbia
Producer Norrie Paramor, Bob Morgan
Cliff Richard chronology
When in Rome
(1965)
Love Is Forever
(1965)
Kinda Latin
(1966)

Love Is Forever is the ninth studio album by Cliff Richard released in 1965 (sixteenth album overall). [1] The album reached number 19 in the UK Album Charts [2] and is primarily made up of pop standards such as "Long Ago (And Far Away)", "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You", and "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)".

Cliff Richard British pop singer, musician, and actor

Sir Cliff Richard, is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Contents

The album was produced primarily by Richard's usual producer Norrie Paramor, but two song's "Everyone Needs to Love Someone" and "Through the Eye of a Needle" were from Richard's August 1964 recording sessions in New York with Bob Morgan producing. Bob Morgan was from Epic Records, Richard's US record company at the time. [3] [4]

Norrie Paramor English record producer

Norman William Paramor, known professionally as Norrie Paramor, was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, both together and separately, steering their early careers and producing and arranging most of their material from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Paramor was a composer of studio albums, theatrical productions, and film scores.

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Epic Records American record label

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop, R&B, rock, and hip hop. Epic Records has released music by artists including Glenn Miller, Tammy Wynette, George Michael, The Yardbirds, Donovan, Shakin Stevens, Europe, Cheap Trick, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ted Nugent, Shakira, Sly & the Family Stone, The Hollies, Celine Dion, ABBA, Culture Club, Boston, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and Michael Jackson. Along with Arista, Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainment's four flagship record labels.

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Everyone Needs Someone To Love" 
2."Long Ago (And Far Away)" 
3."(All Of My Sudden) My Heart Sings" 
4."Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" 
5."Fly Me to the Moon" 
6."Theme From A Summer Place" 
7."I Found A Rose" 
Side B
No.TitleLength
1.""My Foolish Heart" (song)" 
2."Through The Eye Of A Needle" 
3."My Colouring Book" 
4."I'll Walk Alone" 
5."Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" 
6."Paradise Lost" 
7."Look Homeward Angel" 

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References

  1. Love is Forever at AllMusic
  2. "Cliff Richard UK Chart History". www.officialcharts.com. The Official UK Charts Company.
  3. Billboard - Talent - New Twist Mapped: Blends English with U.S., Vice Versa. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 July 1964. p. 20. ISSN   0006-2510.
  4. Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1991). Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990. London: Blandford. p. 63. ISBN   0-7137-2242-8.