CLIFF RICHARD - WHEN THE GIRL IN YOUR ARMS

WHEN THE GIRL IN YOUR ARMS

CLIFF RICHARD

SONGWRITERS: ROY C. BENNETT & SID TEPPER

WHERE: ROYAL ALBER HALL 2015

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: WHEN THE GIRL IN YOUR ARMS

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1961

"When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart" is a 1961 hit by Cliff Richard written by the songwriting team of Sid Tepper and Roy Bennett who would contribute fifteen songs to the Cliff Richard canon including his career record "The Young Ones". Produced by Richard's regular producer Norrie Paramor, "When the Girl in Your Arms..." featured backing by the Norrie Paramor Orchestra with vocal support from the Mike Sammes Singers. Richard's own group the Shadows backed him on the B-side "Got a Funny Feeling"

Recorded in January 1961, "When the Girl in Your Arms..." was not released until that October as the first advance single for the Cliff Richard movie vehicle The Young Ones. The track reached a chart peak of #3 in the UK and gave Richard a #1 hit in the Netherlands, Norway (for eight weeks) and South Africa. A #2 hit in Australia and Ireland, Richard's "When the Girl in Your Arms..." was also a hit in Belgium/Flemish Region (#4), Belgium/Wallonia (#10) and New Zealand (#7).

Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song; in the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles, "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music". Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.

When the girl in your arms

Is the girl in your heart

Then you have got everything

When you are holding the dream

You have been dreaming you would hold

You're as rich as a king

So hold her tight

And never let her go

Day and night

Let her know

You love her so

With the love of your life

Spend the lifetime of love

Make her yours for evermore

So hold her tight

And never let her go

Day and night

Let her know

You love her so

With the love of your life

Spend the lifetime of love

Make her yours for evermore

Make her yours for evermore.