Surprisingly Cilla is the title of Cilla Black's

Cilla Black

Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...

 twelfth solo studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

. It was a spin-off from her television series, Surprise, Surprise, and the opening track is the show's theme tune. The album includes several re-recordings of Black's hit singles, originally recorded in the 1960s.

The album was conceived primarily as an attempt to capatilise on the success of the television series, which had drawn high ratings for ITV. Black was re-united with her former EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 producer David Mackay

David Mackay (producer)

David Mackay is an Australian record producer/arranger and musical director. He was born in Sydney, Australia and began his music career at the age of 15 in a production of Bye Bye Birdie for J.C. Williamson Theatre Company...

, but unlike their previous collaborations, neither he or Black were given any creative control over the project.

Although Black heavily promoted the album and its two singles, they failed to chart. Some months after the album's release, Towerbell Records shutdown and no further copies of the album were released.

Re-release

In 2003, there were plans to re-issue the album on CD until it was discovered that the master tapes for the project had been lost. The re-issue project was therefore abandoned.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Surprise Surprise" (Kate Robbins)
2. "I Know Him So Well
   I Know Him So Well
   "I Know Him So Well" is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. In this duet, two women – Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress – express their bittersweet feelings for him and at seeing...
   
   " (Benny Anderson, Tim Rice
   Tim Rice
   Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...
   
   )
3. "You're My World
   You're My World
   "You're My World" is a ballad originally recorded in 1963 as "Il Mio Mondo" by Umberto Bindi, who co-wrote the Italian-language version with Gino Paoli. Rendered with English lyrics by Carl Sigman as "You're My World",the song has reached No...
   
    (Il Mio Mondo)" Umberto Bindi
   Umberto Bindi
   Umberto Bindi was an Italian singer-songwriter.He is especially known for the popular song he co-wrote with Gino Paoli, Il Mio Mondo , which he recorded in Italian in 1963. It was later performed by singers in English and other languages.Bindi was born in Bogliasco , Italy, and was classically...
   
   , Gino Paoli, Carl Sigman
   Carl Sigman
   Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
   
    (Previously recorded in 1964)
4. "One More Night" (Phil Collins
   Phil Collins
   Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
   
   )
5. "There's a Need in Me" (D.Chanter)
6. "Conversations" (Roger Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway , is a popular English songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook.-Career:...
   
   , Roger Cook
   Roger Cook (songwriter)
   Roger Cook is an English songwriter who has written many hits for other recording artists. He has also had a successful recording career in his own right.-Early life:Cook was born in Fishponds, Bristol, England...
   
   , Jerry Lordan
   Jerry Lordan
   Jerry Lordan , born Jeremiah Patrick Lordan in Paddington, west London, was an English songwriter, composer and singer.-Career:...
   
   ) (Previously recorded in 1969)

Side B

1. "Step Inside Love
   Step Inside Love
   "Step Inside Love" is a song written by Paul McCartney for Cilla Black in 1967 as a theme for her TV series Cilla, which first aired in the beginning of 1968. Her version was released as a single on 8 March 1968. It reached number eight in the British charts...
   
   " (John Lennon
   John Lennon
   John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
   
   , Paul McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   ) (Previously recorded in 1967)
2. "We're in This Love Together" (Roger Murrah
   Roger Murrah
   Roger Murrah is a songwriter and music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama....
   
   , Keith Stegall
   Keith Stegall
   Robert Keith Stegall is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980, Stegall has recorded two-major label studio albums: 1985's Keith Stegall and 1996's Passages...
   
   )
3. "I See Forever in Your Eyes" (Bob McDill
   Bob McDill
   Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
   
   )
4. "That's Already Taken" (A.Corrie)
5. "Put Your Heart Where Your Love is" (A. Palomibi, D. Henson)
6. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
   You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
   "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" is a 1964 song by The Righteous Brothers which became a number-one hit single in the United States and the United Kingdom the following year. In 1999, the performing-rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. ranked the song as having had more radio and television...
   
   " (Barry Mann
   Barry Mann
   Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.-Career:...
   
   , Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann....
   
   ) (Previously recorded in 1964)

Credits

Personnel

• Lead Vocals - Cilla Black
• Producer - David Mackay
• Arranged - David Mackay, Allan Rogers and David Cullen
• Keyboards - Allan Rogers, Danny Schogger and David Mackay
• Bass - Paul Townsend
• Guitars - Tim Renwick
  Tim Renwick
  Timothy John Pearson 'Tim' Renwick is an English guitarist.-Career:Renwick started playing guitar in the 1960s. He performed with many bands, including Little Women, Wages of Sin, Junior's Eyes, The Hype, Quiver and Lazy Racer...
  
  
• Drums - Graham Jarvis and Tom Nichol
• Saxophone - Andy Mackintosh
• Artwork - Ian Hooton