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A GUIDE TO THE SHADOWS AND HANK MARVIN ON CD

EXTRACTS: ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS A-Z


On the mono version, after the line ‘Life is getting worse’, there are three grunts; on the stereo version there are four. After the line ‘Living piggy lives’, there are two grunts on the stereo version but none on the mono version (one mono only grunt further on). Finally, the grunts at the end are different: on the mono version there are about twelve and on the stereo version there are about eight.

Jeff Russell, The Beatles: Album File and Complete Discography (Revised ed., London 1989) p. 256, on PIGGIES (The Beatles, Apple PCS 7067-8 Mono ~ Stereo)


Abbreviations used in the following survey:

  • Abbey: 1997 CD The Shadows at Abbey Road (with invaluable booklet).

  • Kasper + page-number: Otto Kasper, Yesterday Today pp. 218-221, provides a selection with brief comments.

  • Nugent + page-number: Jim Nugent, "The Shadows’ ‘Alternative Versions’", Shadsfax Issue 3 (1996) pp. 17-21.

  • Panteny + item number [supplied by me: original unnumbered]: John Panteny’s Website "Cliff Richard & The Shadows World-Wide Discography", under "Different Versions".

  • RC + page-number: Rob Bradford, "The Shadows’ Rarities", Record Collector No. 51 (Nov. 1983) pp. 20-24.

  • Sasu + "Versions": as recorded in Ulrich Sasu’s database The Shadows File1.

  • Woosey + page-number: Les Woosey, review of CD The First 20 Years at the Top, in Shadsfax Issue 1 (1995) p. 7.


    • An excellent starting-point for the study of variants, commonly referred to as "alternative versions", is Jim Nugent’s article cited above. On p. 19 (first full paragraph) he itemises deliberate omissions from his list, all of which I would endorse. But I would go a bit further, cutting out from his tables THE BOYS ~ THEME FROM THE BOYS (surely two independent productions, differently conceived); and the vocal ~ instrumental versions of JOHNNY B GOODE and MY WAY2.


    Section I below offers a fresh, updated list with comments where appropriate3. For availability on CD see the individual entries in Track Listings A-Z. Section II records those AVs for which no CD versions have yet appeared, on official releases at least4.


    I


  • 36-24-36, 1-2
    The second version, with intro, is promised in the booklet for the CD The EP Collection, but it does not materialise. [Panteny #4, RC 23, Sasu A-B]

  • ALL DAY 1-3
    2 clearly lacks polish, and reproduction is nothing special; 3 on the other hand is certainly an "excellent find from the archives" (Abbey booklet p. 6). [3: Abbey Track 7; 1-2: Kasper 218, Nugent 19, Panteny #9, RC 23; 1-3: Sasu A-C]

  • ATLANTIS 1-3
    Mono and Stereo versions (see esp. Sasu File on the differences), and also a Stereo version without orchestral/ vocal overdubs. [1-2: Nugent 19, Panteny #11; 1-3: Sasu A-C; 3: Abbey Track 8]

  • BENNO-SAN 1-2
    2 is the rare Mono variant. [= Abbey Track 14, also now Shadow Music Digipak; cf. Kasper 218, Nugent 19, Panteny #17, Sasu A-B]

  • CRICKET BAT BOOGIE 1-2
    A variant of sorts (missing reprise, obviously no accident, on the very generously filled CD Listen to The Shadows). [Nugent 19, Panteny #23 (with mention of a New Zealand LP) , Sasu A-B]

  • DAKOTA 1-2
    Stereo/ Mono versions (latter with fade-out). [Kasper 218, Nugent 19, Panteny #14, Sasu A-B]



    • 1 Large stretches of this meticulous work have been taken over by Pierre Cortada in his The Fabulous Epic of the Shadows. In doing so Cortada has introduced a vast number of misprints and inaccuracies of various kinds. The serious enquirer will find it essential to consult the original File.

    2 The latter is merely part of an instrumental medley. - The recently released instrumental version of NO NO NINA likewise can be ignored for present purposes.

    3 I have not included numbers with minor variations in timings, see Track Listings under (e.g.) THE BOYS, DIAMONDS, HOT ROX [HM], LIFE IN THE JUNGLE, MUSTANG, STACK-IT.

    4 A "Version B" recorded by P Cortada (Epic p. 264) for ELEVENIS should be disregarded. As Ulrich Sasu points out to me, this is simply an early fade-out on the 1983 Dutch 10" bootleg By Special Request to avoid groove-noise from the Single from which the track was taken.


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