IvanP
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 11:39 AM
I don't know how many of you have seen this great 30-minute video from '64 - the Shadows doing five songs through the history of British beaches. (King Canute is Cliff Richard in a cameo.) Very funny in spots (especially The Drum Number, the Shadows performing as cavemen), very Goon-Show-like. And it has the Shads performing on the beach - during the surf era! It looks a lot like the beach movies from the US of the time.
The songs:
Main Theme
The Drum Number
The Lute Number
Ranka Chank
Rhythm 'n' Greens
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morphball
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 05:37 PM
This is great! That Greensleeves-sounding tune in the second part is especially brilliant.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 07:03 PM
morphball wrote:
This is great! That Greensleeves-sounding tune in the second part is especially brilliant.
Glad you like that one, Mike - it's called The Lute Number, and it's the song that gave birth to the Troubadours, my dad's and mine Shadows tribute band. Art B. wanted somebody to record it for An Evening in Nivram (Shadows tribute album), and I volunteered my dad and me. Here's the result. (Three years later, once we decided to put a real Shadows tribute band together, the name stuck - the name made sense for an act playing a song titled The Lute Number, but for a Shadows tribute band? Much less so.  Oh well, I guess we mostly got away with it...)
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morphball
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 07:36 PM
That's a really great cover, well done! It almost sounds lute-like... was that a nylon-stringed guitar you were playing? I don't know why I've never heard this haunting melody before now... but hey, that's one of the things I love about this place. I was actually wondering about the name of your Shadows tribute band, but figured that most of the synonyms for "shadow" would have made you guys sound like an 80's goth band, haha. (For the record, Troubadours is a pretty cool name for any type of band.)
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IvanP
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 08:30 PM
morphball wrote:
That's a really great cover, well done! It almost sounds lute-like... was that a nylon-stringed guitar you were playing?
Thanks, and yes, indeed, it was a nylon-stringed guitar that I capo-ed on fifth fret, if I remember correctly, to give it a bit more of a 'plinky' sound. Then I played it with a pick. I'm not completely convinced that Hank didn't do something similar. Apparently a real lute is not so easy to play, and it has double strings, and the lead on original The Lute Number doesn't sound like it was played on an instrument with double strings.
I don't know why I've never heard this haunting melody before now... but hey, that's one of the things I love about this place.
The Shadows have SO MUCH great stuff! I cannot recommend this highly enough - 6 CDs, containing EVERYTHING the Shadows recorded between '59 and '66, in chronological order. Both Jonpaul and Brian picked it up a month or so ago at my recommendation. You will not regret it, especially for the price ($23!!!)
I was actually wondering about the name of your Shadows tribute band, but figured that most of the synonyms for "shadow" would have made you guys sound like an 80's goth band, haha. (For the record, Troubadours is a pretty cool name for any type of band.)
Thanks!
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shivers13
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 08:37 PM
Fun Stuff, Ivan! Never seen this at all. I can't get enough footage from this era. The music is fantastic and more raw than the usual Shadows stuff. I dig it!! The film is like the Beach Party flicks meets the Monkees meets scholarly Britsh humor. Cool post!
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ArabSpringReverb
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 08:52 PM
Ivan thanks for the box set tip...I bought the last one ,I think. I do love the Shads...
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IvanP
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Jul 15 2014 09:08 PM
shivers13 wrote:
Fun Stuff, Ivan! Never seen this at all. I can't get enough footage from this era. The music is fantastic and more raw than the usual Shadows stuff. I dig it!! The film is like the Beach Party flicks meets the Monkees meets scholarly Britsh humor. Cool post!
Thanks, Norm!! I was wondering if you in particular had seen this before - I knew it'd be right up your alley! I mean, c'mon, the Shads playing on a beach?? Get outta here!  (BTW, just in case anybody didn't get it, Rhythm 'n' Greens - a rip on all these young British bands playing rhythm and blues - was mocking the Beatles in particular, with the "yeah, baby, ooh, ah" kinda lyrics. I love the part at the end, where they're playing that song, and the narrator says that maybe we haven't come a very long way from the days of the cavemen after all!  The Shads were having a bit of fun at the expense of the latest craze, while also, as Norm noticed, changing their sound to fit in with the times, making it a bit more raw. It's just a blast!)
ArabSpringReverb wrote:
Ivan thanks for the box set tip...I bought the last one ,I think. I do love the Shads...
I really don't know why ANYBODY on SG101 would not pick up this set! It's incredible, especially for the price! (don't worry, there are more of them on Amazon - if nothing else, you can get them through third-party vendors.) My strong recommendation - GET IT NOW!
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shivers13
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Posted on Jul 16 2014 10:40 PM
Indeed it is! Cool to see some video footage I haven't seen before. Plus the Shads getting a little more "privitive" is quite cool. Many American surf bands were on TV teen dance shows. Hoping more of it surfaces as time goes on.
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IvanP
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Posted on Jul 17 2014 09:09 AM
Norm, I don't know if you're at all familiar with the movies that the Shadows did with Cliff Richard (The Young Ones, Summer Holidays, Wonderful Life, Finders Keepers) between '62 and '66. They're all very corny and The Shadows have a pretty minor role in all of them except the last one, Finders Keepers from '66. It's not a great movie by any stretch, but I enjoy it quite a bit nonetheless, and I think you would, too, if you can track it down somewhere. Here are three clips from it for your viewing pleasure, the first and third by Cliff & the Shads, the second one the Shads on their own (singing!).
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shivers13
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Posted on Jul 17 2014 12:13 PM
The Cliff and the Shadows flicks I have seen for the most part. The chicks dancing in that second clip is the best! Funny to see the Shads singing a very Beatles inspired tune. Cliff always bugged me for some reason. He looks kinda like Jim Carey in that third clip.
Not sure if you saw this post but there's a great bunch of clips from 60's surf and instro bands in this collection...
http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/24293/
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mom_surfing
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Posted on Jul 17 2014 09:33 PM
fun stuff and some cool tunes i've never heard.
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