Two's Company (Cliff Richard album)

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Two's Company The Duets
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Studio album by
Released6 November 2006
Length52:25
Label EMI Records
Cliff Richard chronology
The Platinum Collection
(2005)
Two's Company The Duets
(2006)
Love... The Album
(2007)
Singles from Two's Company The Duets
  1. "Yesterday Once More (with Daniel O'Donnell)"
    Released: 6 November 2006
  2. "Move It"
    Released: 11 December 2006

Two's Company: The Duets is a 2006 album by Cliff Richard. It is a part-compilation and part-studio album of duets. The guests include Elton John, Barry Gibb, Dionne Warwick, Olivia Newton-John, Lulu, Brian May and Hank Marvin.

Contents

In the UK, the album reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified Gold. The album has sold over 320,000 copies worldwide. The album features a reworking of "Move It", with Brian May of Queen on guitar. When released as a double A-Side single with "21st Century Christmas", the song reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] A digital only single of "Yesterday Once More", a cover of Carpenters song, was recorded with Daniel O'Donnell and released earlier in November. [2] The album also features a posthumous duet featuring vocals of Matt Monro.

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Move It" (with Brian May and Brian Bennett)
  • Brian May
  • Brian Bennett
4:07
2."Anyone Who Had a Heart" (with Dionne Warwick) Chris Porter 3:30
3."Miss You Nights" (with G4) Graham Stack, Matt Furmidge3:56
4."Yesterday Once More" (with Daniel O'Donnell)Porter4:05
5."She Means Nothing to Me" (with Phil Everly) Stuart Colman 3:36
6."All I Ask of You" (with Sarah Brightman) Andrew Lloyd Webber 4:10
7."Let There Be Love" (with Matt Monro) John Burgess 3:14
8."Throw Down a Line" (with Hank Marvin) Norrie Paramor 2:49
9."Fields of Gold" (with Barry Gibb)Porter3:21
10."Up Where We Belong" (with Anne Murray)Porter4:29
11."Slow Rivers" (with Elton John) Gus Dudgeon 3:11
12."Suddenly" (with Olivia Newton-John) John Farrar 4:01
13."Danny Boy" (with Helmut Lotti) Peter Koelewijn 3:56
14."Reunited" (with Lulu)
  • Porter
  • Rick Mitra
4:00

Charts and certifications

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References

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