ഌ CLIFF RICHARD, Ocean Deep|Royal Variety Performance

Cliff was knighted on 25 October 1995 and as an Entrepreneur, Sir Cliff Richard has become joint owner of the Arora International Hotel in Manchester, which opened in June 2004. He also owns a rather fine Quinta in the Algarve, Portugal, where he is involved in the production of wines at the Adega do Cantor (“Winery of the Singer”), a state-of-the-art winery in Guia, near Albufeira. In 2006, Sir Cliff Richard received Portugal’s equivalent of a knighthood in recognition of his 40 years of personal and business involvement in that country. Sir Cliff Richard's premise is that his decision not to adopt the "sex, drugs and alcohol" image expected of rock stars, then and now, was the truly avant-garde choice.[wikipedia]

The legendary Sir Cliff Richard & The Shadows got reunited and performed at the Royal Variety Performance in 2008 singing The Young Ones|Willy And The Hand Jive|Move It with Bruce Welch (left) and Hank Marvin (right).

ഌ CILLA BLACK, You're My World|Something Tells Me

Cilla Black OBE (born Priscilla Maria Veronica White on 27 May 1943 in Liverpool) is an English singer-songwriter and television personality. The local music paper 'Mersey Beat' misprinted her name as Cilla Black, but Epstein liked the sound of it. After a successful recording career, she went on to become the highest paid female presenter in British television history. Cilla Black outsold all other female recording artists in Britain during the 60s and was the second most successful act after the Beatles to emerge out of the 60s Liverpool Merseybeatboom. She has released 15 studio albums and 37 singles (many of which have charted world-wide).[wikipedia]

ഌ CHUBBY CHECKER, TheTwist|Let's Twist Again

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941) in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, is an American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the The Twist with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958.

Most Babyboomers would never forget how they first started to learn 'The Twist' by holding both ends of a towel behind their back and pulling it from left to right and left with both hands and at the same time twisting the body. Yeah real cool...

More Twist - Chubby Checker performing his signature hit 47 years later...

ഌ CHUBBY CHECKER, Limbo Rock|Knock Down The Walls

Every Limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the Limbo Rock
All around the limbo clock
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock...

Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go...

Chubby Checker performing his new song "Knock Down the Walls". This clip was part of a November 24, 2007 telecast that was a charity benefit for the Aids Services of the Monadnock Region and appeared on Cheshire TV Ch. 8 public access in Keene, NH. Thanks to Erniebaud for the Video Clip.

ഌ CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Reflection|Beautiful

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) in Staten Island, New York is an American pop/R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan.
The second single, "Beautiful", was a commercial success and sustained the album's sales amidst controversy over Aguilera's sexual image. [adapted from wikipedia]

ഌ CHRISTIE, Yellow River|San Bernadino

"Yellow River" is a popular song recorded by the British band, Christie and the song was written by band leader Jeff Christie. It was released in May 1970, and it became a massive international hit, reaching #1 on the UK singles chart for a single week in June 1970. It also reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US accumulating more weeks than any other entry on the chart completely inside 1970.

The song is the thoughts of a young man whose time in the army is over and he is looking forward to returning to his home town in the country on Yellow River, Iowa . The British video had the group on a barge sailing down the River Thames through London.[wikipedia]

"Put my gun down, the war is won
Fill my glass high, the time has come
I'm goin' back to the place that I love, Yellow River
Yellow River, Yellow River, is in my mind and in my eyes
Yellow River, Yellow River, is in my blood, it's the place I love..."

ഌ CHORDETTES , Mr Sandman|Lollipop|Never On Sunday|

The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional pop music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived vocal groups with roots in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s. Although the arrangements owed more to The Andrews Sisters than doo-wop, they did, unlike many of their peers, prove fairly adaptable to the rock and roll era. First establishing themselves with the huge hit record, "Mr. Sandman" in 1954, they continued to chart in the last half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, often with cover versions of rock and R&B songs. Their #2 1958 hit "Lollipop" was the biggest of these.

The group organized in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1946. The original members of the group were Janet Ertel (1913 - November 4, 1988), Carol Buschmann (her sister-in-law), Dorothy Schwartz and Jinny Osborn (or Jinny Lockard) (April 25, 1928 - May 19, 2003). In 1952, Lynn Evans replaced Schwartz, and in 1953, Margie Needham replaced Osborn (who was having a baby), although Osborn later returned to the group. Nancy Overton (born February 6, 1926) also was a member of the group at a later time. Originally they sang folk music in the style of The Weavers, but eventually changed to a harmonizing style of the type known as barbershop harmony or close harmony. Part of this change seems to be influenced by Osborn's father. [wikipedia]