''Thank You Very Much'' is an album of the March 1978 reunion concerts at the

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by English singer

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and the group that backed him in the 1950s and 1960s

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. It was released in February 1979 on the

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label and reached No. 5 in the

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. 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 "

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" to tracks from Richard's gospel album '' Small Corners'' released only a month before the concert (although only "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" made the original album). Although "

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" 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

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's "End of the Show" (the closing track from his ''

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'' album). 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.Thank You Very Much
at Amazon.co.uk A video version of the concert with the same title features clips and interviews.

Track listing

Side One #" The Young Ones" (

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, Roy C. Bennett) - Cliff and the Shadows #" Do You Wanna Dance" (

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) - Cliff and the Shadows #"

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" (

Hank Marvin Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is widely known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows, a group which primarily performed instrumentals and was the ba ...

) - Cliff and the Shadows #"Shadoogie" (Marvin,

Bruce Welch Bruce Welch (born 2 November 1941 as Bruce Cripps) is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows. Biography Welch's parents (Stan Cripps and Grace Welch) moved him to 15 B ...

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) - The Shadows #"

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) - The Shadows #"Nivram" (Marvin, Welch, Harris) - The Shadows #" Apache" (Lordan) - The Shadows #"

" (Welch, Peter Chester) - Cliff Richard #"

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" (

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) - Cliff Richard Side Two #"

" (

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" ( Johnny Otis) - Cliff and the Shadows #" All Shook Up" (

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) - Cliff, Hank and Bruce #" Devil Woman" (

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, Barry Authors) - Cliff Richard #"Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" (

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) - Cliff Richard #" End of the Show" (

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) - Cliff and the Shadows Additional (previously unreleased) live tracks from the concert (2004 re-issue): #"Up In Canada" (Norman) - Cliff Richard #"Yes He Lives" (Britten) - Cliff Richard #" Let Me Be the One" ( Paul Curtis) - The Shadows

Personnel

*Cliff Richard – lead vocals ;The Shadows *

–

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– guitar (and vocals on "Let Me Be the One") * Brian Bennett – drums *Alan Jones –

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*Cliff Hall –

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;Cliff Richard's Band: *

– guitar *Dave Christopher – guitar *Graham Murray – guitar *

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– bass guitar *Graham Todd – keyboards *

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– drums *Graham Jarvis – drums *

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– backing vocals *Stuart Calver – backing vocals *John Perry – backing vocals

Technical personnel

*Producer – Bruce Welch (The Shadows solo tracks also produced by Hank Marvin) *Engineer – Tony Clark (on the RAK Mobile) *Re-mixing – Tony Clark,

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Track listing

Personnel

Technical personnel

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

References