What’d I Say/Blue Moon/True Love Will Come To You/Lover/Unchained Melody/Idle Gossip/First Lesson In Love/ Almost Like Being In Love/Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum/Memories Linger On/Temptation/I Live For You/ Sentimental Journey/I Want You To Know/We Kiss In The Shadow/Its You
Listen To Cliff was a transitional album from Cliff in which he starts to distant himself from his rock and roll past and move towards slower ballads likely to appeal to a slightly older audience. (UK:2)
“Eight of the tracks are with The Shadows, four by the Norrie Paramor Orchestra and four by the Norman Ebbinghouse Band. Ballads dominate with only What'd I Say and I Want You To Know to break them up. Cliff's voice is getting deeper and with it, there is a wistful quality not heard before. While many songs are wonderful, the overall feeling is that there are just too many ballads.”
“This is an ambitious, varied and substantial album which must have had a relatively huge budget for the time as Norrie Paramor strove to create a beat group/crooner hybrid. He succeeds thanks to excellent engineering and The Shadows at their confident best.”
“Overall I think this maybe Cliff's best album. It showed the present (with The Shadows) and the future. Although the album was recorded in 1961, Cliff was looking ahead and thinking about painting on a bigger canvas. Most people would probably feel that he should have stayed with The Shadows, but this young man at that time saw a world to conquer (well, at least the UK) and what we have here is a mixture of standards and original Shadows material.”
“Cliff Richard's fourth album saw him making something of a radical departure. This was not an album of pop songs and there were no singles lifted from it. Instead, Listen To Cliff finds him tackling songs from various musicals and previous eras, with several new songs written to fit this formula.”
“Listen To Cliff features a mixture of original tracks and covers of standards; there are a lot of ballads, but What I'd Say is a storming rock ‘n’ roll performance, while songs like Lover and Almost Like Being In Love are pure jazz. This album is a fine testimony to the young Cliff's versatility. His voice has a unique youthful yet precocious sound - deep, bluesy, melancholy, luminous and sensual."
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