20 December 1963
Uh-oh. Here’s Cliff with his first Irish Christmas number one. Thankfully, ‘Don’t Talk To Him’ isn’t his latter-day Jesus-based creepery like ‘Mistletoe And Wine’ but instead the unlikely tale of a male hater fibbing to Cliff’s girl that he’s playing the field by “walking round with Sue and Jean”. Listen up, haters: just because Cliff is a stud and a catch, that doesn’t mean you can go around telling fibs about him, okay? Telling fibs is a sin.
Genre-wise, Cliff here seems to have converted his milquetoast version of US rock n’ roll into a tepid copy of UK beat-pop. It’s feeble stuff. Don’t listen to him. Happy Christmas 1963!
