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  Cover Livin Dolljpg
  Artist Cliff Richard and The Young Ones
  Released 1986
  Format 7"
  Recorded 1986
  Genre Pop
  Length 3:57
  Chart Position <nowiki>#</nowiki>1 <small>( UK Singles Chart )</small>
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Living Doll is a popular song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows .

Written by Lionel Bart it was originally recorded in 1959 by Cliff Richard and the Drifters and produced by Norrie Paramor . It peaked at #1 on the UK singles chart for six weeks from July 1959, selling over a million copies in the process. The song won Bart an Ivor Novello Award for best song. The song was Richard's first US hit single reaching #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

27 years later in 1986 Alternative Comedy group The Young Ones approached Richard to record a comic version of ''Living Doll'' for the Comic Relief charity. Surprisingly bearing in mind the contrast between the anarchic comedians and the clean cut Richard he agreed and their version again topped the UK singles chart, for three weeks from March 1986. Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin was reunited with Richard on this recording for the first time since 1975.

  Before " Dream Lover " by Bobby Darin
  Title UK Number One Single (Solo version)
  Years July 31 1959
  After " Only Sixteen " by Craig Douglas


  Before " Chain Reaction " by Diana Ross
  Title UK Number One Single (Richard/Young Ones version)
  Years March 23 1986
  After " A Different Corner " by George Michael