by JimN » Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:59 pm
I can confirm that the A-side, listed in the EMI catalogue of the day, was definitely Lonesome Fella.
In 1963, at the age of 12, I had been buying Shadows singles at the larger NEMS store in Liverpool for a few weeks and one of the sales assistants remarked that I was always buying their older records. She asked if I wanted to see the catalogue and produced it from the departmental office, letting me in to sit down and read it. The only 45-DB release listed before Apache was Lonesome Fella / Saturday Dance. I asked if the shop could order it for me, but she went over to the famous indexed stock shelves and pulled out a brand new repressing with the then-new black Columbia label. Luckily, I hadn't bought anything else and still had my 6s 8d and was able to buy it. I still have it.
Of course, had I known enough about it, I could have looked under "Drifters" and found Feelin' Fine and Jet Black.
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JimN on Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:38 pm, edited 2 times in total.