I discovered this on the Fanderson facebook page yesterday, in a thread discussing Thunderbirds are Go. The post was made several years ago so I suppose it's too late to reply to it and try to make the guy see the error of his ways! I can't understand why he got the impression that the Shads were just a covers band, who apparently specialised in covering Ventures tunes! I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that the Ventures probably covered more Shadows tunes than the other way around... or it was at least equal. Oh well. Anyway, here it is...
Robbie Paramor
Actually The Shadows were pretty much a cover band for Ventures material, aside from things like Flingel Bunt ... don't get me wrong they were good, but they did covers!
And yes I did note the irony of the guy's surname!