Thank You Very Much (album)


Thank You Very Much is an album of the March 1978 reunion concerts at the London Palladium by English singer Cliff Richard and the group that backed him in the 1950s and 1960s The Shadows. It was released in February 1979 on the EMI label and reached No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart.
The concert had sections with Richard and The Shadows playing together, The Shadows playing alone and Richard playing more recent material with his own band. There was also an acoustic section credited as Cliff, Hank and Bruce.
The material played spans from the 1958 debut single "Move It" to tracks from Richard's gospel album Small Corners released only a month before the concert. Although "Please Don't Tease" was originally a number one hit for Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 1960, the version played here is the rearranged version from the B-side of the 1978 single "Please Remember Me" and is played by Cliff's band. The album closes with a cover of Dennis Wilson's "End of the Show". The repeated refrain of that song is where the album title Thank You Very Much comes from.
The original album only contains fifteen tracks. A CD version released in 2004 adds three more tracks but the entire concert has never been released. A video version of the concert with the same title features clips and interviews.

Track listing

Side One
  1. "The Young Ones" - Cliff and the Shadows
  2. "Do You Wanna Dance" - Cliff and the Shadows
  3. "The Day I Met Marie" - Cliff and the Shadows
  4. "Shadoogie" - The Shadows
  5. "Atlantis" - The Shadows
  6. "Nivram" - The Shadows
  7. "Apache" - The Shadows
  8. "Please Don't Tease" - Cliff Richard
  9. "Miss You Nights" - Cliff Richard
Side Two
  1. "Move It" - Cliff and the Shadows
  2. "Willie and the Hand Jive" - Cliff and the Shadows
  3. "All Shook Up" - Cliff, Hank and Bruce
  4. "Devil Woman" - Cliff Richard
  5. "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" - Cliff Richard
  6. "End of the Show" - Cliff and the Shadows
Additional live tracks from the concert :
  1. "Up In Canada" - Cliff Richard
  2. "Yes He Lives" - Cliff Richard
  3. "Let Me Be the One" - The Shadows

    Personnel

;The Shadows
;Cliff Richard's Band:
Credits from the album's sleeve notes

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