#5: Living Doll by Cliff Richard/David Hill
Peak Month: October-November 1959
Peak Position #1
20 weeks on Vancouver’s CKWX chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #30 (Cliff Richard)/ did not chart (David Hill)
YouTube.com: “Living Doll” ~ Cliff Richard
YouTube.com: “Living Doll” ~ David Hill
Lyrics: “Living Doll”
Cliff Richard was born Harry Roger Webb on October 14, 1940, in the city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1940 Lucknow was part of the British Raj, as India was not yet an independent country. Webb’s father worked on as a catering manager for the Indian Railways. His mother raised Harry and his three sisters. In 1948, when India had become independent, the Webb family took a boat to Essex, England, and began a new chapter. At the age of 16 Harry Webb was given a guitar by his father. Harry then formed a vocal group called the Quintones. Webb was interested in skiffle music, a type of jug band music, popularized by “The King of Skiffle,” Scottish singer Lonnie Donegan who had an international hit in 1955 called “Rock Island Line”.