Happy Birthday To You/Forty Days/Catch Me/How Wonderful To Know/Tough Enough/50 Tears For Every Kiss/ The Night Is So Lonely/Poor Boy/Y’arriva/Outsider/Tea For Two/To Prove My Love For You/Without You/A Mighty Lonely Man/My Blue Heaven/Shame On You
Like other Cliff albums of this period 21 Today was a mixture of rockers and pop ballads. The former backed by The Shadows, the latter by the Norrie Paramor Orchestra. (UK:1)
“This is the best Cliff album I've heard. Vocals are excellent as is the bass sound. A very substantial 16 track, 40 minute album, a mixture of pop ballads and derivative rockers, nearly all cover versions but sufficiently rare or distinctive to be worthwhile. Sound quality is an absolute model of clarity. Vocals are excellent as is the bass sound.”
“Overall, 21 Today is the sound of a singer growing old before his time and hindsight insists that it is no coincidence that, within a year of its release, the arrival of The Beatles would consign Cliff to the boring category.”
“What a fantastic album by the British king of pop. A combination of songs with The Shadows and with Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra.”
“A great mix of rockers and ballads. Cliff and The Shads or Cliff with the orchestra. Forty Days is a great Chuck Berry song, which just belts along. Tough Enough and Shame On You recreate the Me & My Shadows feel. The ballads seem stronger than on his previous album, and many could have all been released as singles. Catch Me is very evocative of the early 60s. All in all, a lovely little album.”
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