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"Jessica" the full length version, by The Allman Brothers Band. Beats anything that The Shadows have ever recorded, and I'm a long-time Shadows fan.

Overall, I think the list is pretty bland and boring. There's nothing listed by the likes of Jerry Douglas, Freddie King. Link Wray, SRV, Alvin Lee, Roy Clark, Junior Brown, etc, etc. Nothing featuring lap steel, pedal steel, dobro, or Weissenborn. Not even a banjo!

"Jessica" is a great track. Hank also did a great version of it, as well as the Local Heroes. In my opinion, this track doesn't 'beat' any of The Shadows' recordings. "Jessica" is very good in certain aspects, while say "Apache" is very good in other aspects.

Ted wrote:Overall, I think the list is pretty bland and boring.

That list was compiled from records that made it into the charts. In other words, at one time or another, lots of people liked those tunes and bought them.

Jerry Douglas, Freddie King. Link Wray, SRV, Alvin Lee, Roy Clark, Junior Brown, etc, may all have made good records but but the Great British Public preferred to spend their money on on Lt. Pigeon.

Ray

and how about Jimi and Star spangled banner.

Uncle Fiesta wrote:Shadows have 5, effectively. Whose idea was it to add that awful dirge the Deerhunter to the list when the John Williams version was already there?
It's an odd list anyway - nothing by Henry Mancini, and none of John Barry's greats are there either.

I was interested how they'd done it so I looked up their competition online***. It says this:

If you can't see your favourite on the list - just add it here and press 'add extra choice'  and we'll count that vote instead.

So if you want to see John Barry, or Mancini, or (hint) other Shadows favourites, get voting!!

***Source: https://www.boomradiouk.com/the-boom-instrumental-chart/

Not a single Spotnicks title in the list?

I would also have suggested "Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughan and "Celebration" by Mick Clarke.

And of the Shadows, I find "Chattanooga choochoo" far more exciting than, for example, "Deer Hunter".

Apache and Wonderful Land are second and third in the poll, with the inevitable Mr Ross voted No. 1!

https://www.boomradiouk.com/which-songs ... -the-most/

Bill

I'm going to take the liberty of posting the entire listeners' top fifty. Some of the "winners" are puzzling...

1. Albatross Fleetwood Mac
2. Apache The Shadows
3. Wonderful Land The Shadows
4. Stranger On The Shore Acker Bilk
5. Theme from “a Summer Place” Percy Faith
6. Telstar The Tornados
7. Classical Gas Mason Williams
8. Soul Coaxing Raymond Lefevre
9. Because They're Young Duane Eddy
10. Man Of Action Les Reed Orchestra
11. Samba Pa Ti Santana
12. Sylvia Focus
13. Time Is Tight Booker T. & The M.G.s
14. Green Onions Booker T. & The M.G.s
15. Groovin' With Mr Bloe Mr. Bloe
16. Fanfare For The Common Man Emerson Lake And Palmer
17. Arrival ABBA
18. Take Five Dave Brubeck [Quartet]
19. Let There Be Drums Sandy Nelson
20. Atlantis The Shadows
21. Love's Theme Barry White
22. Eye Level (Van Der Valk) Simon Park Orchestra
23. A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass Mood Mosaic
24. Jessica Allman Brothers
25. Chi Mai Ennio Morricone
26. Aria Acker Bilk
27. Nut Rocker B. Bumble & The Stingers
28. Sleep Walk Santo And Johnny
29. A Walk In The Black Forest Horst Jankowski
30. The Persuaders Theme John Barry
31. The Eve Of The War Jeff Wayne
32. Birdland Weather Report
33. Song For Guy Elton John
34. Rebel Rouser Duane Eddy
35. Oxygene Part IV Jean-Michel Jarre
36. Love Is Blue Paul Mauriat
37. Mozart 40 Waldo De Los Rios
38. Tubular Bells (Opening Theme) Mike Oldfield
39. Cast Your Fate To The Wind Sounds Orchestral
40. Morning Dance Spyro Gyra
41. The Hustle Van McCoy
42. Music Box Dancer Frank Mills
43. In The Mood Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
44. I Will Return Springwater
45. Foot Tapper Shadows
46. Rise Herb Alpert
47. Diamonds Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
48. Magic Fly Space
49. [On] The Rebound Floyd Cramer
50. Red River Rock Johnny & The Hurricanes

Man Of Action by Les Reed? It isn't even anywhere near his best (and pales by comparison to his tremendous Spanish Armada). It must have been used as a theme by a "offshore" radio station, which is also likely to be the reason why Mood Mosaic's A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass gets in.

Glenn Miller in the charts over the period? I didn't know that.

Ennio Morricone's great tune Chi Mai gets a subtitle ("from The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George"), but it had already been used for the BBC's drama serial "An Englishman's Castle" in 1978 (Kenneth More starring).

I'm glad to see Soul Coaxin' and Love's Theme in there - minor hits during a time when the instrumental was all but forgotten.

Still... four by The Shadows, plus Jet & Tony's Diamonds. And eleven other titles eventually recorded by The Shadows, including I Will Return by Springwater (how that is anyone's favourite is a mystery - I have the single and it's dreary!).

JimN wrote:Man Of Action by Les Reed? It isn't even anywhere near his best (and pales by comparison to his tremendous Spanish Armada). It must have been used as a theme by an "offshore" radio station, which is also likely to be the reason why Mood Mosaic's A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass gets in.

Glenn Miller in the charts over the period? I didn't know that.

Yes, you've sussed it. Man of Action was the station theme for Radio Northsea International, which will have been well known to pop radio fans of the boomer generation. A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass was the personal theme tune of one Dave Lee Travis, stalwart of Radio Caroline, both North and South, who went on to become presenter of the high-audience Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Neither of these tunes would be in sales charts because they fall into the "slow burn" category of being played all the time.

As to Glenn Miller, an EP including In the Mood was in the Top 20 in 1976.

Two instrumentals I’d have expected to see in the list are Midnight in Moscow (Kenny Ball) and Spanish Flea (Herb Alpert) … but of course it’s just a radio station playlist subject to the vagaries of what it suggested in the first place, what others put forward in addition, who (and how many) actually voted and how rigorously the eventual list was produced.

I wonder why they bothered?