Released September 1961 Genre Rock | Recorded 1961 | |
Label Columbia (EMI) SX1374 (mono); SCX3414 (stereo) (UK) The Shadows(1961) Out of the Shadows(1962) |
The Shadows is a 1961 rock album by British group The Shadows, which reached number one in the UK charts.
Contents
Track listing
- "Shadoogie" (Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris, Tony Meehan)
- "Blue Star" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman)
- "Nivram" (Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin, Jet Harris)
- "Baby My Heart" (Sonny Curtis) – (Vocal: Hank Marvin)
- "See You in My Drums" (Tony Meehan) – Drum solo
- "All My Sorrows" (Dave Guard, Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds) – (Vocal: Jet Harris)
- "Stand Up and Say That" (Hank Marvin)
- "Gonzales" (Jet Harris, Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin)
- "Find Me a Golden Street" (Norman Petty)
- "Theme from a Filleted Place" (Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris)
- "That's My Desire" (Helmy Kresa, Carroll Loveday) – (Vocal: Bruce Welch)
- "My Resistance Is Low" (Hoagy Carmichael)
- "Sleepwalk" (Ann Farina, Santo Farina, Johnny Farina, Don Wolf)
- "Big Boy" (Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin)
Personnel
Instruments
Recording
The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios (Studio 2) between 26 October 1960 and 21 June 1961. It was recorded on entirely analogue equipment in real time, with each track recorded on a one-track-per-day basis with no overdubs or edits on a 2 track recording machine. Rather than having a stereo mix being mixed down into a mono version, both stereo and mono mixes were recorded simultaneously but separately within the same session. Mistakes made during recording necessitated immediate retakes, and for that reason, multiple versions for some (if not all) tracks exist in EMI's tape vaults.
All of the tracks were recorded in several sessions over an eight-month period (nine session-days), during which singles were also recorded, including "Kon-Tiki", "She Wears Red Feathers" (unissued), "The Frightened City", "Wonderful Land", "36-24-36", "March of the Shadows" (unissued), "Peace Pipe", "The Savage", "Blues From an Unfurnished Flat" (unissued), "Happy Birthday to You" (unissued except in an overdubbed form on 21 Today), an LP by Cliff Richard.
The songs from the album were recorded in this order: