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"Mistletoe and Wine" is a Christmas song made famous as a chart-topping single by Cliff Richard in 1988. The song was written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan for a musical called Scraps, which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" set in Victorian London.
1999 The Best of the Mediæval Bæbes (this title is absent from the Mediæval Bæbes' website, and they comment that Mistletoe and Wine is 'the only compilation endorsed by the Mediæval Bæbes') 2003 Mistletoe and Wine (a collection of Christmas-related music from previous albums, plus two new songs and two re-recorded songs)
He also wrote The Little Match Girl, based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, for the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, which contained the song "Mistletoe and Wine." [1] HTV produced the play for television in 1986. [5] Two years later, he received an Ivor Novello award for the song, when Cliff Richard released it as a single. [1]
Private Collection: 1979–1988 is a compilation album by Cliff Richard, released in 1988.It features songs such as the number one single "We Don't Talk Anymore" from 1979, to his latest release at the time, the Christmas number one hit "Mistletoe and Wine". [2]
"Mistletoe and Wine" was Richard's 99th UK single and spent four weeks at the top of the chart. It was the best-selling UK single of 1988, shifting 750,000 copies. [47] The album was certified quadruple platinum, becoming Richard's first to be certified multi-platinum by the BPI since it had introduced multi-platinum awards in February 1987 ...
For centuries, mistletoe has been hung in doorways all around the world to assist in holiday matchmaking. But there’s more to mistletoe than just its romantic associations. This plant has a ...
Richard has achieved 14 number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, including having the unique distinction of having two versions of the same song hitting number-one on the singles chart. "Living Doll" first topped the charts in 1959, then again 26 years later in a re-recording for the Comic Relief charity with the cast of British TV series ...
"Saviour's Day" is a song by Cliff Richard. It was the United Kingdom Christmas number one single in 1990, the second occasion Richard had a solo Christmas number one (the first being "Mistletoe and Wine"). The video for the song was filmed in Dorset.