Cliff Richard's EP "La-La-La-La-La"

[strongbow]

No, an original album sleeve wouldn’t necessarily trump a researched book, but it is part of the evidence. And, as others have noted, Read/Lewry/Goodall does have its share of errors.

I must say that the idea of Mike Leander conducting Bernard Ebbinghouse’s orchestra didn’t occur to me. But it’s a possible answer.

As for the presence of It’s All Over on the October 11 session, my guess would still be what I suggested earlier. The song was first done, along with three others, on the Bernard Ebbinghouse session of September 20 but something was deemed to need rework – perhaps Cliff’s vocal. So when Cliff was in on October 11, the necessary repair was effected. Given that EMI was using multi-track machines by then, it would simply have been slotted on to the original September 20 version done with Ebbinghouse.

I too think Lewry & Goodall are to be commended for their overall work and some errors are inevitable in stuff of that scope. That’s not a problem, particularly if they’re open to correcting them.

Their preface to The Ultimate Cliff (1996) asked for any mistakes/omissions to be brought to their attention, so I sent them, via their publisher, a list of 41 such items. I don’t know if they received it and I don’t have any subsequent editions – were there any? – so I’ve no idea whether any corrections were taken on board.

That said, I was surprised, and disappointed, at some of the errors that appeared in their programme notes for the Reunited tour, and the booklet of the And They Said It Wouldn’t Last box set.

[Bill Bowley]

All,

Maybe we need 'Indiana Jones and the Cliff Recording Sessions' to hit the screen then we might have a definitive version! But, discussions like this are great, I know they always sends me back to the source I thought was right for another look and a re-think, and I am sure that I for one feel the better for it!

Regards to all!