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"Apache" is a song written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon. Lordan played the song on ukulele for the Shadows while on tour and, liking the song, the group released their own version which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in mid-1960. [1]
The solo discography of British rock group the Shadows consists of 21 studio albums, five live albums, 25 EPs and 67 singles.They are known for having been the backing group for Cliff Richard in the 1950s and 1960s; however, they were also extremely successful without Richard, and had several number-one hits, notably their first "Apache" in 1960.
At Their Very Best is an album released by British pop group The Shadows released on 4 December 1989. [1] ... "Apache" "Man of Mystery" (from The Edgar Wallace ...
"Wonderful Land" is an instrumental piece written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded and released as a single by The Shadows in February 1962. It stayed at number one for eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, a feat only Elvis Presley (in 1960), the Shadows and the Archies (in 1969) managed in the whole of the 1960s.
Stage appearances by Marvin, Welch and Farrar, and latterly by Marvin and Farrar, resulted in demands for 'old' Shadows numbers such as FBI and Apache etc. So in 1973, Marvin and Welch bowed to the inevitable and announced that the Shadows would come together once or twice a year for recording purposes only.
The Shadows by Themselves by Royston Ellis with The Shadows. Consul Books. 1961. No ISBN. The Story of the Shadows by Mike Read. 1983. Elm Tree books. ISBN 0-241-10861-6; That Sound (From Move It On, The Story of the Magic Sound of The Shadows), by R. Pistolesi, M. Addey and M. Mazzini. Publ: Vanni Lisanti.
The Shadows' version was voted Top Record of 1960 in the New Musical Express Readers' Poll. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The tune was also recorded by the Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann , who took it to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.
Guardian Angel was the group's first album to be released on LP and CD simultaneously and only the group's second CD release. It had the distinction of being the group's only 1980s album to contain mostly original material, except for one track.