Tracks 'n Grooves

Tracks ‘n Grooves
Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released	30 November 1970[1]
Genre	Pop, Rock
Label	EMI Columbia
Producer	Norrie Paramor, Peter Vince
Cliff Richard chronology
Sincerely Cliff (1969) Tracks ‘n Grooves (1970) The Best of Cliff Volume Two (1972)

Tracks ‘n Grooves is a studio album by British singer Cliff Richard, released November 1970 on EMI Columbia label. It reached #37 in the UK Album Charts.^[2]

A year earlier, the opening track "Early in the Morning" (a cover of Vanity Fare's 1969 hit) was released as a single in several countries (but not the UK where the original had reached the top ten). It reached number 1 in Japan in December 1969 and was later listed in Billboard as 13th on the list of Japan's "Foreign Hits of 1970".^[3][4][5][6]

Track listing

Side One

1. "Early In The Morning" (Mike Leander, Eddie Seago)
2. "As I Walk In The Morning Of Your Life" (Brooks)
3. "Love, Truth & Emily Stone” (Hank Marvin, Petrina Lordan^[7])
4. "My Head Goes Around" (Geoff Goddard)
5. "Put My Mind At Ease" (Neil Diamond)
6. "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)
7. "The Girl Can’t Help It" (Bobby Troup)
8. "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (Sonny Bono)

Side Two

1. "I’ll Make It All Up To You" (Charlie Rich)
2. "I’d Just Be Fool Enough" (Melvin Endsley)
3. "Don’t Let Tonight Ever End" (Sylvana Simoni, Giulio Libano, Jack Wood)
4. "What A Silly Thing To Do" (Terry Britten)
5. "Your Heart’s Not In Your Love" (Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer)
6. "Don't Ask Me to Be Friends" (Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin)
7. "Are You Only Fooling Me" (Raymond Froggatt)

Production

• All tracks produced by Norrie Paramor except Side 1 Track 3 by Peter Vince^[8]
• Side 1, Tracks 1, 3 & 4 Arranged and Conducted by Mike Vickers.
• Side 2, Track 7 Arranged and Conducted by Mike Vickers.
• Side 1, Tracks 2, 5 & 7 Arranged and Conducted by Mike Leander
• Side 2, Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 4 Arranged and Conducted by Mike Leander
• Side 1, Track 6 & Side 2 Track 5 Arranged and Conducted by Nick Ingram
• Side 1, Track 8 Arranged by Brian Bennett, Conducted by Norrie Paramor
• Side 2, Track 6 Arranged and Conducted by Bernard Ebbinghouse

References

1. "New Releases". Dynamite International (13): 2. December 1970.
2. Cliff Richard discography#Studio albums
3. Read, Mike; Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1993). Cliff Richard - The Complete Chronicle. London: Hamlyn. p. 150. ISBN 0600578976. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
4. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (11 December 1971). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 54–. ISSN 0006-2510.
5. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (27 December 1969). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 41–. ISSN 0006-2510.
6. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (28 February 1970). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 64–. ISSN 0006-2510.
7. Victor Rust (2010). The Cliff Richard Recording Catalogue 1958-2010. Lulu.com. pp. 328–. ISBN 978-0-9567384-0-0.
8. Album sleeve