| Cliff Richard and The Shadows - Theme For A Dream [Mono Version] | Details |
The mono, stereo and mock stereo recordings are the same take and edit, but different mixes. The mock stereo is created from the true mono mix. As of the end of 1989, EMI archives show sales of Theme For A Dream at 1,049,669 units worldwide. "The idea for this record [the Dream EP]-- which spotlights four of the finest 'dream' standards ever written-- came from Cliff himself, and was prompted by the success of his Theme For A Dream hit." "Theme For A Dream, the first Cliff Richard recording to feature a girl chorus, was issued at a time when Cliff was about to embark on his first South African tour. He had just completed his first television series for ATV. It entered the Charts in March, 1961 (reaching No. 2) and was followed shortly afterwards by another hit parade entry, Gee Whiz, It's You [sic]-- which is not included here, as it is already on the Me And My Shadows LP." "EMI issue souvenir 'Golden Discs' to all artists who sell one million copies of one number. If all are called, few are chosen. Cliff has four of thesefor Living Doll, Bachelor Boy, The Young Ones and Lucky Lips. They also issue souvenir 'Silver Discs' for sales of 250,000 and over, and Cliff has some seventeen of these, for such numbers as Living Doll, Travelling Light [sic], Voice in the Wilderness [sic], Fall in Love with Me [sic], Please don't Tease, Nine Times out of Ten, I Love You, Theme for a Dream, Girl in your Arms [sic], Looking out the Window [sic], It'll be Me, Lucky Lips, Don't Talk to Him, All in the Game [sic], as well as the four million-sellers." "Theme For A Dream is one of those strange things when we'd-- Well, we got the song and we thought, 'We liked it, but it wasn't really us.' It wasn't really Cliff and the Drifters... or the Shadows. I think maybe we were the Shadows by then. But we did it because we felt it was a change of direction as far as we were concerned. It was slightly more... Well, it was less pop than usual." "February 24, 1961: Cliff's 12th single Theme For A Dream/Mumblin' Mosie is released. One reviewer calls it, 'A light and pretty number, easy on the ear, with a good tune which will set you humming. [...] February 27 1961: EMI reveal that advance orders for Theme For A Dream exceed 200,000. [...] April 21, 1961: Cliff has two discs in the Top 10: Theme For A Dream and Gee Whiz It's You. [...] June 30, 1961: Theme For A Dream tops the chart in New Zealand. [...] March 1963: American singer Bobby Vee covers Cliff's Theme For A Dream on his new album. [...] September 7, 1963: Bobby Vee reveals that he is going to include Cliff's Theme For A Dream on his next LP." "Cliff scored another two #1s in Europe with Theme For A Dream and When The Girl In Your Arms [sic]... It may come as a surprise his army of blue-rinsed fans, but Cliff Richard once fell foul of the Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco because of the supposedly sexually explicit lyrics in one of his songs. The Peter Pan of Pop's 1961 hit Theme For A Dream was banned by the state broadcaster Radio Nacional de Espaρa (RNE) because it contained such suggestive lines as 'When I dream I kiss you/Music fills with star-light/Every time I touch you.' Sir Cliff's ditty shared the same fate as far more notorious records such as Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, the Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin hit banned on release in Britain in 1969." " "The mainstream was increasingly evident in Cliff's other pop recordings too. Theme For A Dream was a number no self-respecting rock 'n' roller would admit to liking, yet there's no doubt it was a clean and winsome pop ditty, all of a piecewith the image of Cliff as a rock gentleman, even if the chirping female chorals of the Mike Sammes singers were tough to take. His public loved it..." "While Cliff was recording his new album, EMI put together a compilation called Love Songs, featuring the singers 'softer' side, with tracks pulled from the last 20 years of hitmaking, from 1960's Theme For A Dream to 1980's A Little In Love." "Richard's music style changed quickly, and his Rock and Roll numbers soon gave way to softer pop numbers like Living Doll and Theme For A Dream." "Pal Pal from the 2006 film Lage Raho Munna Bhai [was heavily inspired by] Cliff Richard's Theme For A Dream, which was released nearly half a century earlier." | |
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