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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:20 am

Unfortunately, when I listen to it, all I can hear is The Inbeetweenies, by the Goodies!
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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby jfenn78 » Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:58 pm

It turns out there is another version of 'It's Too Late', this one from 1986 by Marti Jones, who I had never heard of but has a pleasant voice. Musically this sounds more like the Shadows might have interpreted it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4HZTiqlEc
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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby GoldenStreet » Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:38 pm

This thread is from June 2012. Some of the links are to videos no longer available, though...

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7622&hilit=stranger+french

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J8RKQ3ArGw

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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby GoldenStreet » Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:33 pm

Not so much a cover version, more one that appeared just before that by the Drifters, by Lucille Mapp an actress/singer from Trinidad popular in the 50s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRj3oxhj4o

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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby StanfordTuck » Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:57 am

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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby JimN » Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:13 am

I KNEW I'd heard a vocal version of Zambesi, complete with the line "...bringing home a lion from the zoo...".

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https://open.spotify.com/track/7zm1eoBu6iKEcvxBphGGqe?si=df8e6c76021c42bc
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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby GoldenStreet » Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:32 pm

Tony Mansell dubbed from the 1956 Parlophone 78rpm. Produced by George Martin, I wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLKH52ncnw

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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby JimN » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:35 pm

GoldenStreet wrote:Tony Mansell dubbed from the 1956 Parlophone 78rpm. Produced by George Martin, I wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLKH52ncnw

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The same recording is on Spotify within an album called Britxotica! - London's Rarest Primitive Pop and Savage Jazz.

It sounds cleaner and brighter on Spotify - as though taken from the EMI master tape rather than a disc dub.

The lyric line seems to vary between while I was bringing home a lion from the zoo and bringing home a lion for the zoo.

Only the second variation makes sense.

As soon as I heard The Shadows' version in '64 or '65, I knew I'd heard the tune on the radio years before. I'd had the same reaction on hearing The Bandit.
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Re: Strange and unexpected Shadows, etc covers

Postby Moderne » Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:44 pm

Zambesi was a no.2 hit in Britain in 1956 on the Capitol record label - for Lou Busch (aka Joe 'Fingers' Carr) and his Orchestra. I remember hearing it on Jimmy Savile's Old Record Club (I hope I'm allowed to mention that name) on Radio 1 around 1978 when he played the hits of 1956 every four weeks on Sunday at 1pm, and seeking out the 78 in a junk shop (on my bike, aged 14)! In those days there would be half a dozen or so cover versions of hit records; other versions included Eddie Calvert (The Man With the Golden Trumpet!) on the Columbia label and vocal versions by Tony Mansell (on Parlophone) and The Stargazers (on Decca). I'm not sure who recorded it originally, though. A great piece of music!
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