iefje wrote:That's strange. Do you mean the soundtrack album of the film, if there is one or the actual film soundtrack? The broadcast of the film I have on videotape definitely features the segments where The Shadows can be heard.
On listening again to the sequence at the home of Jess Conrad's character, I think you're right about it being The Shadows playing, which is something you would never expect in that period because it was unusual for commercial recordings to be featured in films of the time. As far as I am aware, there is no soundtrack album from the film, whether of all the actual music heard on-screen or of any studio re-recordings. The nearest thing would be The Shadows' EP, which is sleeve-credited as "Theme music from the Galaworldfilm production
The Boys". That, though, is inaccurate on any footing, since the film's theme music (over the front and end credits) is something quite different. The Bill McGuffie and Welch-Marvin-(Bennett) compositions could only be properly described as incidental music from the film, with
Sweet Dreams (properly:
Sweet September) rendered in several different arrangements at various points throughout.
The earliest Shadows (Drifters) film connection was
Serious Charge, though it was literally only a connection - the group were not seen or heard. The related EP release bore the same title as the film but made no claims on the sleeve or labels to be from the film. The EP simply had the title "Serious Charge". It was nevertheless usual for film links to be mentioned on Shadows' releases without it meaning that the music was what you heard as a member of the audience. The connection is made on the labels of the singles
Man Of Mystery and
The Frightened City but The Shadows are not heard either in that latter 1961 film or in the B-movie Edgar Wallace series. Even so, on-screen credits for each mention The Shadows' recordings (by way of promotion). The 1963 single
Foot Tapper label mentions that the composition is "from ...
Summer Holiday", though the recording certainly isn't. The same applies to
Theme For Young Lovers, released the following year and credited as from
Wonderful Life. There are similar examples from Shadows' releases over the next few years. However, the first time that the claim was accurate wasn't until the release of the
Rhythm And Greens single and EP, which contained the recordings heard in the cinema.