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[A10 1] JIGSAW / [A10 2] TENNESSEE WALTZ / [A10 3] PRELUDE IN E MAJOR / [A10 4] CATHY’S CLOWN / [A10 5] STARDUST / [A10 6] SEMI-DETACHED SUBURBAN MR JAMES / [A10 7] TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES / [A10 8] FRIDAY ON MY MIND / [A10 9] WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL / [A10 10] WAITING FOR ROSIE / [A10 11] CHELSEA BOOT / [A10 12] MARIA ELENA / [A10 13] WITH A HMM-HMM ON MY KNEE / [A10 14] GREEN EYES

PERSONNEL
Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, John Rostill, Brian Bennett

DISTRIBUTION
UK+, and Belgium, Denmark, France+, Germany+, Holland, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand+, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela

Jigsaw was not the usual Shadows’ fare. For one thing it was their first entirely instrumental Album. For another, taken as a whole the sound was heavier, denser, with abundant use made of double-/multi-tracking and varispeed. Also, humour was much in evidence: CHELSEA BOOT is full of weird and wonderful noises, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL has a droll spoken introduction, WITH A HMM-HMM ON MY KNEE is a piece of riotous fun, as its leading instrument, a banjo, goes into overdrive. There was even a touch of xylophone from Brian Bennett (on GREEN EYES)!

Compositions by group-members were still part of the picture: JIGSAW, PRELUDE IN E MAJOR, WAITING FOR ROSIE, in addition to CHELSEA BOOT and WITH A HMM-HMM ON MY KNEE from close associates Peter Vince and Cliff Richard respectively. So too were "covers", but it is the choice of derivative material that sets this Album apart from its predecessors. A large helping of "Hits from the 60s" is given the distinctive Shadows’ treatment: not just the Everly Brothers’ classic CATHY’S CLOWN (1960), and the polished instrumental from Los Indios Tabayaras, MARIA ELENA (1963), but, more significantly, relatively recent best-sellers: from 1965, TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES (Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas as well as Burt Bacharach); from 1966, SEMI-DETACHED SUBURBAN MR JAMES (Manfred Mann), FRIDAY ON MY MIND (The Easybeats), WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL (The New Vaudeville Band). The same tendency can be detected in the follow-up Album [#151], and could be an indication of the direction The Shadows would have taken had they not decided to disband.

In the heady days of Sgt Pepper (not to mention The Monkees), Jigsaw entered the Top Ten (at 8) on 19 August: thereafter it was 8. 9. <->. 8, this last on 16 September.

COMPOSERS
See under individual titles below, "Vinyl Records: LPs"

STATUS
Mono/ Stereo - The Mono and Stereo cuts of TENNESSEE WALTZ differ in length and in details. See CD Guide pp. 20, 229, 278.

VINYL RECORDS

[A10 1] JIGSAW
(Bruce Welch / Hank Marvin / John Rostill / Brian Bennett)

[A10 2] TENNESSEE WALTZ
(Redd Stewart / Pee Wee King)

[A10 3] PRELUDE IN E MAJOR
(Hank Marvin / John Rostill / Brian Bennett)

[A10 4] CATHY’S CLOWN
(Don & Phil Everly)

[A10 5] STARDUST
(Hoagy Carmichael)

[A10 6] SEMI-DETACHED SUBURBAN MR JAMES
(John Carter / Geoff Stephens)

[A10 7] TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES
(Burt Bacharach / Hal David)

[A10 8] FRIDAY ON MY MIND
(George Young / Harry Vanda)

[A10 9] WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
(Geoff Stephens)

[A10 10] WAITING FOR ROSIE
(John Rostill)

[A10 11] CHELSEA BOOT
(Peter Vince)

[A10 12] MARIA ELENA
(Castro Lorenzo Barcelata)

[A10 13] WITH A HMM-HMM ON MY KNEE
(Cliff Richard)

[A10 14] GREEN EYES
(Nilo Menendez)

CD ISSUES
See CD Guide, Track Listings under the various titles - Recommended: Jigsaw Digipak (Mono & Stereo versions, UK 1999)