| Cliff's Hit Album | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Cliff Richard |
| Cover: | Cliffs_Hit_Album_(Cliff_Richard_album).jpg |
| Released: | July 1963 |
| Recorded: | July 1958 – December 1961 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Norrie Paramor |
| Prev Title: | Summer Holiday |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | When in Spain |
| Next Year: | 1963 |
Cliff's Hit Album is Cliff Richard's first compilation album and ninth album overall. It was released in July 1963 and reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart.[1] The album contains 14 songs from his singles released between August 1958 and May 1962. It includes all Richard's singles in this period that made the top 3 of the UK Singles Chart.
In Canada, the album was retitled "Living Doll" and was released in September 1963 and spent three weeks at number 1 on Chum's Album Index during October and eight weeks in the top 5 altogether.[2] [3]
Cliff's Hit Album was released as an LP album on Columbia in the UK in July 1963. It has not been released on CD, but all tracks are available on other compilation albums.
The Canadian version of the album titled Living Doll was released on Capitol Records and tailored the track-listing to include two recent Canadian hits "Bachelor Boy" and "Lucky Lips" while excluding "A Voice in the Wilderness" and "I'm Looking Out the Window" which had not charted locally.[4]
| Chart (1963) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Albums (CHUM)[5] [6] [7] [8] | 1 | |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[9] | accessdate=15 February 2012--> | 3 |
