Each month DJ/music historian David “Ghosty” Wills discusses and reviews the record releases from Cliff Richard & The Shadows in chronological order.
Jim Nugent joins me to review the 1966 album Shadow Music by The Shadows, and the “I Met a Girl” single.
Erika White of the podcast BC The Beatles returns to help us review the 1966 Cliff Richard album Kinda Latin and the “Blue Turns To Grey” single.
Warren Bennett joins us to discuss the 1965 compilation The Shadows-More Hits!, the single “The War Lord” and his memories of growing up with a famous father, Brian Bennett, and later touring with The Shadows.
Guests: Peter Checksfield about his book “Cliff Richard: The Shadows Years 1958-1968”, Jan Eastaugh discusses Cliff in Canada and Jim Nugent on the LP “Babes In The Wood” with music written by The Shadows.
Benita of “Those Elvis Girls” reviews the single “The Time In Between”, 1 Shadows E.P. and 2 Cliff E.P.'s
Ron Dante of The Archies shares his thoughts on Cliff Richard's medley of ‘Tracy/Sugar Sugar” from Cliff's 'Live in Berlin 1970' release and talk about his career + Robert Porter returns to review the 1965 album ‘When In Rome'.
Jim Nugent returns to talk about 1965s, the sound of the shadows LP and the “Don't Make My Baby Blue” single - plus bonus guest.
Justin and Gurdip of TCBCAST join us this week to review the 1965 LP ‘More Hits By Cliff' track-by-track.
Mark Cunningham returns to the show to review track-by-track the You 1965 album ‘Cliff Richard' and the single “On My Word/Just a Little Bit Too Late”.
Vic Rust joins us to discuss “The Minute You're Gone” and other 1965 singles and EP's from both Cliff Richard and/or The Shadows
Maggie Green, Fred Velez, Ian Kershaw and Paul Westwood discuss all things Aladdin, both the 1964 cast album and the pantomime itself.
Marty Wilde M.B.E. joins us to talk about his new EP Two Eyes Streaming and his memories of Cliff Richard & The Shadows -PLUS- P.J. Shakespeare reviews the Rhythm & Greens short film and EP plus several 1964 releases by both Cliff and the Shads.
Erika White of BC The Beatles returns to discuss the Cliff's Palladium Successes EP and the soundtrack album to the 1964 Cliff Richard musical Wonderful Life.
Iain Purdon of the Shadowmusic site/forum joins us to talk about the single “The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt” and the LP Dance With The Shadows.
Brian 'Licorice' Locking's sister Babs Wilson joins us to talk about her book "Me and My Shadow".
Mark Cunningham joins us for our annual Christmas show, looking back at Cliff Richard's Blue Sapphire Tour and more!
Journalist Pat Murphy joins us again to talk about three singles (including "Constantly") and two EP's from late 1963/early 1964
Erika White, co-host of BC The Beatles joins us to talk about the singles "Don't Talk To Him" and "I'm The Lonely One" plus the EP's Love Songs and When In France.
Robert Porter of the Cliff Richard Songs Database joins us to review/discuss 1963's When In Spain LP + bonus guest musician Daniel Martin talks about his album "The Man From Nowhere" and working with Bruce Welch.
George Geddes joins us to talk about the "Foot Tappin' with The Shadows" and "Los Shadows" EP's and the "Shindig" single, all released in September of 1963
Playwright Paul Westwood joins us to talk about his new play "Cliff Club" at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Monkees author & expert Fred Velez helps us review 1963's Cliff's Hit Album LP and the "It's All in The Game" single.
Bruce Welch of The Shadows joins us on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of The Shadows Greatest Hits LP to go track-by-track with stories about each song.
Author Vic Rust joins us to talk about the "Foot Tapper", "Atlantis" and "Lucky Lips" singles as well as 1963's Holiday Carnival EP -PLUS- bonus guest: singer Elisa Shaw
Darren Price of Cliff Richard Radio joins us to go track by track on 1963's Summer Holiday soundtrack album.
Shadows fan and online archivist Jim Nugent joins us to talk about the Out of The Shadows LP and the "Dance On"/"All Day" single.
Justin Gausman and Gurdip Ladhar join us to to review Cliff Richard & The Shadows' 1962 LP "32 Minutes & 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard".
In honor of the the holidays, Mark Cunningham returns to count down our personal Top 5 Cliff Richard Christmas songs.
J-Mo On The Beat joins us to talk about the "I'm Looking Out The Window/Do You Wanna Dance" single and the Cliff's Hit Parade EP and then P.J. Shakespeare discusses The Shadows EP The Boys (and the 1962 film)
Pat Murphy of The Beat magazine returns to discuss the "Wonderful Land" single and the "Spotlight on The Shadows" and "Wonderful Land of The Shadows" EP's.
Jaime Kay, host of the Jungle Room Podcast, joins us to talk about her first time watching The Young Ones and listening to the soundtrack album.
Darren Price of the Rise Up show on Cliff Richard Radio joins us to discuss the LP released to herald Cliff's 21st birthday.
Mark Cunningham returns to talk about the 1961 debut LP from The Shadows.
Dennis Diken of The Smithereens joins us to talk about 1961's The Shadows To The Fore EP and the "A Girl Like You" and "Kon-Tiki" singles.
Cliff Richard Radio's Terrie Hope joins us to review/discuss 1961's "Listen To Cliff" album.
Antony Rotunno, host of the Glass Onion on John Lennon podcast joins us to review/discuss the first two Shadows EP's and the "F.B.I." and "The Frightened City" singles.
Erika White, co-host of the "BC The Beatles" podcast, joins us to review and discuss the EP's "Cliff's Silver Discs", "Dream" and the single "Theme For a Dream/Mumblin' Mosie".
Journalist Pat Murphy joins us to review and discuss the 1960 LP "Me and My Shadows" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows.
Author Vic Rust returns to discuss the final four singles of 1960 by Cliff Richard & The Shadows, both as a unit and The Shadows on their own, including "Apache".
Returning guest Mark Cunningham joins us to talk about our Top 5 Favorite books about or written by Cliff Richard & The Shadows and we'll talk about what we'd like to see happen in 2022.
Andrew Hickey, author of "The History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" joins us to discuss the film Expresso Bongo, the soundtrack EP, and three singles by Cliff Richard & The Shadows.
Terrie Hope, host of "Saturday Night Takeaway with Cliff & Friends" and "Monday Night Jukebox" on CliffRichardRadio, was our guest to review and discuss the "Travellin' Light/Dynamite" single, the "Cliff Sings" LP, and The Shadows' 3rd single "Saturday Dance/Lonesome Fella".
Gurdip Ladhar, co-host of TCBcast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast, joins us to discuss the parallels and contrasts between Cliff and Elvis, as well as Cliff's first film "Serious Charge", the soundtrack EP, the "Living Doll" single and the second Shadows single "Jet Black/Driftin'".
Music historian Mark Cunningham joins us to review and discuss the first single released by The Drifters (The Shadows) and Cliff Richard's debut LP, 1959's "Cliff". We also read some listener comments about last month's show.
Episode 1: Guest - Vic Rust (the first four singles and the "Oh Boy" LP