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Malcolm Campbell & Les Woosey write:

We are both grateful for being alerted to some amendments to the Guide, and flattered as well that readers took the time and trouble to look very closely at the entries!

The amount of data we had to deal with was daunting, at times almost overwhelming. With new information coming in all the time from various quarters, we had to work with many thousands of individual entries covering every aspect of the recorded output of The Shadows and related artists; a major task in itself was the manipulation of variant versions, in a quantity that far surpassed any lists previously available.

We made strenuous efforts over a protracted period of intense typing and checking, and over hundreds of hours of listening to analogue and digital recordings, to eliminate slips and omissions, but we always recognised that some will have got through. Listed now are a couple of dozen or so amendments that will be of interest to users of the book. The list will look longer than it is because we have provided some comments along the way! Any further amendments are welcome and will receive full acknowledgement: please feel free to contact MC.

In the case of personnel and recording dates, which we included in barest detail as a bonus, no doubt other amendments will come to light, since we did not have access to much of the documentation known to exist, details of which are eagerly awaited. This is one of two aspects of the Shadows’ recorded work that still has had no proper study devoted to it. The other aspect, and the more important of the two (indeed the most important by far of any, because it gets to the heart of the music itself), is a track by track appraisal of everything from the first single to the Final Tour CD of 2004. Such a book is being prepared at this moment by MC in collaboration with Rob Bradford and Les Woosey. Watch this Website for more information in due course.

Sources for our amendments, where apposite, are given by starred initials within square brackets [DH* = Dave Herbert; IK* = Ivo Koers; H-JO* = Hans-Jørgen Olsen; SP* = Simon Palmer; US* = Ulrich Sasu; AS* = Andy Stace; AT* = Alan Taylor]. Our warmest thanks to them all!

I. Personnel/ Recording Date

• CHITTY CHITTY ... (p. 283) & A LITTLE BITTY TEAR LIVE (p. 399)
   ** Delete ‘Bruce Welch’ [AS*].
• FBI LIVE 2 (p. 318) & WONDERFUL LAND LIVE 1 (p. 566)
   ** For ‘Tony Meehan’ read ‘Brian Bennett’.
• LORD HOW IT’S HURTING (p. 405)
   ** H-JO* has drawn attention to some problems attending personnel in the Marvin (Welch) & Farrar recordings. Here for example perhaps it is only a case of Hank Marvin and John Farrar. Again we must await publication of full, or fuller, documentation.
• THE WAR LORD (p. 548)
   ** Add ‘Personnel Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, John Rostill, Brian Bennett’ [AS*].
• TALES OF A RAGGY TRAMLINE (pp. 517–8)
   ** Actually recorded 19/12/61 [DH*], so the problem we mention evaporates.

II. Further Variants/ Sources Of Variants

SHADOWS

• ALICE IN SUNDERLAND (pp. 240–241), IT'S A MAN'S WORLD (p. 374) & MARY ANNE (p. 415)
   ** Contrary to our entries, stereo versions of these numbers are found earlier on the June 1965 Italian LP Hallo Shadows.
• ATLANTIS (p. 254), GERONIMO (p. 336) & STINGRAY (p. 508)
   ** Reverse stereo versions already exist on the 1977 LP Twenty Golden Greats [IK*].
• BOOGITOO (p. 270)
   ** The vinyl Single was issued in mono in Australia, Spain Holland, Yugoslavia and elsewhere [US*].
• COSY MIX 2 (p. 286) & IT’S BEEN A BLUE DAY VERSION A MIX 3 (p. 375)
   ** Already found in the 3LP Box The Shadows (France 1977) [IK*].
• RUNNING OUT OF WORLD (p. 471)
   ** The B-side of the 1968 German Single I CAN’T FORGET has the count-in version, in mono [IK*].
• SLAUGHTER ON 10TH AVENUE (p. 493)
   ** The vinyl Single was issued in mono in Australia, France, Holland and South Africa [US*].
• Film versions × 3 (p. 23)
   ** We were probably overhasty in making special mention of film-versions where there is no evidence that complete versions ever existed. AT* remarks: "On the subject of the three unreleased film versions, they may never have existed as complete satisfactory takes. I once saw a couple of Cliff acetates with short versions of known titles which I believe were intended for use on film. I didn't listen to them, the time must have been written on the labels. (I can't remember which songs or which film(s) as I was too preoccupied with my decision to buy a Don't Bug Me Baby [not-live version] acetate - which I sold on to an American collector soon after. The guy in the shop said they had come from Cliff's chauffeur or gardener or similar.) Anyway, as the numbers were not going to be played for very long in the films a complete take would not have been required and may not have been supplied."

CLIFF & SHADOWS

• ‘The Young Ones’ and ‘In the Country’.
   ** IK* correctly points out that the two tracks from Cliff & The Shadows at “The Event” of 1989 should have been included.
• ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ (p. 298)
   ** The stereo version has a slightly different fade-out involving The Shadows [IK*].
• ‘What’ve I Gotta Do?’ (p. 554)
   ** There are actually two different stereo mixes, one presented by the Wonderful Life/ Aladdin CD, the other by the At Movies and Easily Fall CDs [SP*].
• ‘The Young Ones’ (p. 571)
   ** There are two slightly different mono/ stereo takes, one represented by the original LP and its derivatives, the other by The Hit List CD and others [IK*].