Living Doll

Album: 30 Years Of Hits (1959)
Charted: 1 30
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  • Got myself a cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin', livin' doll
    Got to do my best to please her just 'cause she's a livin' doll
    Got a rovin' eye and that is why she satisfies my soul
    Got the one and only walkin', talkin', livin' doll

    Take a look at her hair, it's real
    If you don't believe what I say, just feel
    I'm gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunk
    Can steal her away from me

    Got myself a cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin', livin' doll
    Got to do my best to please her just 'cause she's a livin' doll
    Got a rovin' eye and that is why she satisfies my soul
    Got the one and only walkin', talkin', livin' doll

    Take a look at her hair, it's real
    If you don't believe what I say, just feel
    I'm gonna lock her up in a trunk so no big hunk
    Can steal her away from me

    Got myself a cryin', talkin', sleepin', walkin', livin' doll
    Got to do my best to please her just 'cause she's a livin' doll
    Got a rovin' eye and that is why she satisfies my soul
    Got the one and only walkin', talkin', livin' doll Writer/s: Lionel Bart
    Publisher: Kanjian Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Brian Mcgowan from GreenockIt's not about a blow up doll. This was 1959.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn October 21st 1962, Cliff Richard performed "Living Doll"* on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
    More than three years earlier on September 22nd, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #80; and on November 23rd, 1959 it peaked at #30 {for 1 week} and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on July 31st, 1959 it reached #1 {for 6 weeks} on the British NME Singles chart...
    At the time of this 'Sullivan' appearance his "The Next Time" b/w "Bachelor Boy" was on the British Singles chart, and on December 29th, 1962 it would peaked at #1 for 1 week {The record did not make the Top 100}...
    Sir Cliff Richard OBE, born Harry Rodger Webb, celebrated his 74th birthday one week ago today on October 14th {2014}...
    * Also in 1959 a singer named David Hill released his version of the song, it stayed on the Top 100 for two weeks, peaking at #92.
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesThe Lightning Seeds also achieved the feat in 1996 with "Three Lions" (England's Euro '96 anthem) and then in 1998 with "Three Lions '98" (England's 1998 FIFA World Cup anthem)
  • Mark from Dublin, IrelandNumber one twice with a 27 year gap in the middle,living doll is a cliff richard classic,cliff has prob sang this one more times than any of his other hits and is always garanteed to have his adoring fans singing along,at the last cliff concert i was at most of the women were wearing living doll t-shirts,well that is the nice ones were,the naughty ones were wearing devil woman ones....
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