Please Don't Tease

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"Please Don't Tease"
EMI Studios, London
GenreRock and roll
Length2:59
LabelColumbia 45-DB4479
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and the Shadows singles chronology
"Fall in Love with You"
(1960) 		"Please Don't Tease"
(1960) 		"Nine Times Out of Ten"
(1960)

"Please Don't Tease" is a 1960 song recorded by

UK Singles Chart spending three weeks at the summit.[1][2] The song was written by the Shadows' rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch together with Pete Chester
.

Release

To decide upon the release of this track as a single, Richard's record company recruited a teenage panel to listen to and vote on a selection of his unreleased tracks. "Please Don't Tease" won the vote and was duly released, "Nine Times Out of Ten" came second and was the follow-up single.[3][4][5]

The single also reached number 1 in India, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Thailand. The single sold 1.59 million copies worldwide.[6]

"Please Don't Tease" was included on the

EP Cliff's Silver Discs, released December 1960. Its first inclusion on an LP was Cliff's Hit Album, released in July 1963.[1][5]

In 1978, the song was revisited in a contemporary arrangement and added to his live repertoire. It was played without the Shadows at their reunion concerts in March 1978 (as recorded on Thank You Very Much), and recorded in the studio and released as the B-side of "Please Remember Me" in July 1978.

Track listing

  1. "Please Don't Tease" – 2:59
  2. "Where Is My Heart" – 2:12

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1960) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 2
France (SNEP)[8] 22
India (The Voice, Culcutta)[9] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[10] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[11] 8
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)[12] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[13] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[2]
 1

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-7137-2242-8
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  2. ^ a b "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  3. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
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  4. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
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  5. ^
    AllMusic
  6. ISBN 0-684-81696-2
    .
  7. ISBN 0-646-44439-5
    .
  8. ^ Select Cliff RICHARD from the drop-down selection box and click OK: "French Singles - Artists R". infodisc.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  9. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
    )
  10. Evening Herald between February 1959 and December 1962. "Ireland singles charts"
    . Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  11. ^ "Cliff Richard & the Shadows – Please Don't Tease" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  12. ^ "Lever Hit Parade, 22 Sept 1960". Retrieved 2014-06-21.
  13. ^ "Cliff Richard & the Shadows – Please Don't Tease". VG-lista.
  14. ^ Johansson, Carl-Owe (1980). Rock Around the Clock - Saturday Night Fever 1955-1978. Vara, Sweden: Dominique muzic-club.
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