Dressed for the Occasion (Cliff Richard album)

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Dressed for the Occasion
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Live album by
Cliff Richard
Released9 May 1983 (1983-05-09) [1]
Recorded23 November 1982 (1982-11-23)
Venue Royal Albert Hall, London
Genre Pop
Label EMI
Producer Cliff Richard, Richard Hewson
Cliff Richard chronology
Now You See Me, Now You Don't
(1982)		Dressed for the Occasion
(1983)		 Silver
(1983)
Singles from Dressed for the Occasion
  1. "True Love Ways"
    Released: 8 April 1983
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Dressed for the Occasion is an album by English singer Cliff Richard, recorded live with the accompaniment of the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in November 1982. It was released in May 1983 on the EMI label and reached No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart and No. 30 in Australia. [3] [4] It was certified Silver in the UK. [1]

Contents

"True Love Ways", a cover of the Buddy Holly original, was released in April 1983 as the lead single from the album and reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] No further singles were released from the album, however the album includes covers of two additional hit songs, being "Softly, as I Leave You", of which the original English version by Matt Monro reached No. 10 in the UK Singles Chart in 1962; [5] the other being "The Treasure of Love", of which Clyde McPhatter's original in 1956 reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Rhythm and Blues Chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Top 100, but only No. 27 in the UK Singles Chart. [6] [7] [8]

The album also includes orchestral versions of several of Richard's hits since his 1976 renaissance, "Miss You Nights", "Devil Woman", "Green Light", "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Carrie".

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Green Light" (Alan Tarney) – 4:11
  2. "We Don't Talk Anymore" (Alan Tarney) – 4:34
  3. "True Love Ways" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 3:11
  4. "Softly, as I Leave You" (Giorgio Calabrese, Tony De Vita, Hal Shaper) – 3:28
  5. "Carrie" (Terry Britten, B.A. Robertson) – 3:25
  6. "Miss You Nights" (Dave Townsend) – 4:04

Side two

  1. "Galadriel (Spirit of Starlight)" (Hank Marvin, John Farrar) – 5:36
  2. "Maybe Someday" (Dean Klevatt, Karel Fialka) – 3:31
  3. "Thief in the Night" (Paul Field) – 4:07
  4. "Up in the World" (Clifford T. Ward) – 2:40
  5. "The Treasure of Love" (Joe Shapiro, Lou Stallman) – 2:02
  6. "Devil Woman" (Terry Britten, Christine Holmes) – 4:36

Additional (previously unreleased) live tracks from the concert (2004 re-issue):

  1. "The Golden Days are Over" (Terry Britten, Sue Shifrin) – 4:04
  2. "You, Me and Jesus" (Cliff Richard) – 2:06
  3. "Discovering" (Chris Eaton) – 3:40
  4. "Daddy's Home (James Sheppard, William H. Miller) – 2:40
  5. "Little Town" (Chris Eaton) – 3:50

Personnel

Technical personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and the book Cliff Richard – The Complete Recording Sessions 1958–1990. [9] [10]

Charts and certifications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "British album certifications – Cliff Richard – Dressed for the Occasion". British Phonographic Industry.
  2. ↑ Dressed for the Occasion at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Cliff Richard | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
  4. 1 2 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  5. ↑ "Softly, as I Leave You - Matt Monro - UK Singles Chart". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (11 August 1956). Treasure of Love - Billboard Top 100 peak. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 56. ISSN   0006-2510.
  7. ↑ "Treasure of Love - Billboard Top 100 chart run". song-database.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Treasure of Love - UK Singles Chart". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Dressed for the Occasion (2004 remastered edition) (liner notes). Cliff Richard. EMI Records. 2004. 7243-583404-2-6.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ↑ Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1991). Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990. London: Blandford. p. 131. ISBN   0-7137-2242-8.
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