21 Today

Studio album by Cliff Richard

Released

14 October 1961

Recorded

September 1960 - July 1961

Genre

Rock and roll

Length

40:01

Label

Columbia
1961 LP - 33SX 1368 (mono)
1961 SCX 3409 (stereo)

Producer

Norrie Paramor

Cliff Richard chronology

Listen to Cliff
(1961)

21 Today
(1961)

The Young Ones
(1962)

21 Today is the fifth studio album by singer Cliff Richard. It was released on 14 October 1961, the exact date of Cliff Richard's 21st birthday and was his first No. 1 in the UK album chart.^[1] Like its predecessors it featured covers of Rock 'n 'Roll hits and well known standards.

Track listing

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Happy Birthday to You"	Mildred J. Hill	1:38
2.	"Forty Days (To Come Back Home)"	Chuck Berry	2:49
3.	"Catch Me"	Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett	2:31
4.	"How Wonderful to Know"	Salvatore D'Esposito, Kermit Goell	2:42
5.	"Tough Enough"	Johnny Otis	2:18
6.	"Fifty Years for Every Kiss"	Sammy Bella	2:34
7.	"The Night Is So Lonely"	Gene Vincent, Clifton Simmons	2:46
8.	"Poor Boy"	Vern McEntire	2:59

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Y'Arriva"	Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin	3:39
2.	"Outsider"	Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett	2:45
3.	"Tea For Two"	Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar	2:19
4.	"To Prove My Love for You"	Don Wolf, Ben Raleigh	1:55
5.	"Without You"	Cliff Richard, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch	2:09
6.	"A Mighty Lonely Man"	Eddie Curtis	2:18
7.	"My Blue Heaven"	Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson	2:31
8.	"Shame on You"	Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin, Kevin Jacobson	2:08

Chart positions

Chart (1961)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)^[2]	1

Preceded by The Shadows by The Shadows	UK Albums Chart number-one album 4–11 November 1961	Succeeded by Another Black and White Minstrel Show by George Mitchell Minstrels

Release formats

Vinyl LP mono & stereo (1961)
Audio CD (1998)

Personnel

Cliff Richard and the Shadows

References

↑ "Cliff Richard - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

Cliff Richard

Albums (UK)

1950s:	Cliff (1959, live) Cliff Sings (1959)

1960s:	Me and My Shadows (1960) 21 Today (1961) Listen to Cliff! (1961) 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds (1962) The Young Ones (1962, soundtrack) Summer Holiday (1963, soundtrack) When in Spain (1963) Wonderful Life (1964, soundtrack) Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1964, stage show album) Cliff Richard (1965) When in Rome (1965) Love is Forever (1965) Kinda Latin Finders Keepers (1966, soundtrack) Cinderella (1967, soundtrack) Don't Stop Me Now (1967) Good News (1967, gospel) Cliff in Japan (1968, live) Two a Penny (1968, soundtrack) Established 1958 (1968) Sincerely Cliff (1969)

1970s:	About that Man (1970, gospel) His Land (1970, gospel) Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town (1970, live) Tracks 'n Grooves (1970) Take Me High (1974, soundtrack) Help It Along (1974, gospel) The 31st February Street (1974) I'm Nearly Famous (1976) Every Face Tells a Story (1977) Small Corners (1978, gospel) Green Light (1978) Thank You Very Much (1979, live) Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979)

1980s:	I'm No Hero (1980) Wired for Sound (1981) Now You See Me, Now You Don't (1982, gospel) Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live) Silver (1983) The Rock Connection (1984) Always Guaranteed (1987) Stronger (1989)

1990s:	From a Distance: The Event (1990, live) Together with Cliff Richard (1991) The Album (1993) Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album) Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live) Real as I Wanna Be (1998)

2000s:	Wanted (2001) Live at the ABC Kingston, 1962 (2002, live) Cliff at Christmas (2003) Something's Goin' On (2004) Cliff Richard - The World Tour (2004, live) Two's Company The Duets (2006) Love... The Album (2007, Part new songs, part compilation) Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows (2009)

2010s:	Bold as Brass (2010) Soulicious (2011) The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook (2013)

EPs (UK)

Serious Charge
Expresso Bongo

Compilations (UK)

Cliff's Hit Album (1963)
More Hits by Cliff (1965)
The Best of Cliff (1969)
The Best of Cliff, Vol. 2 (1972)
40 Golden Greats (1977)
Love Songs (1981)
Walking in the Light (1984, Gospel)
Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988)
My Kinda Life (1992)
The Hit List (1994)
At the Movies 1959-1974 (1996)
Yesterday, Today, Forever (1997, Gospel)
The Whole Story: His Greatest Hits (2000)
The Platinum Collection (2005)
And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) (2008)
The 50th Anniversary Album (2008)
75 at 75 (2015)

Filmography

Serious Charge (1959)
Expresso Bongo (1959)
The Young Ones (Soundtrack album) (1961)
Summer Holiday (Soundtrack album) (1963)
Wonderful Life (Soundtrack album) (1964)
Finders Keepers (1966)
Two a Penny (1967)
Take Me High (1973)

Discography
Concert tours
The Shadows

Book:Cliff Richard

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