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SHADOWS ARE TO TOP BILLS WITHOUT CLIFF

Chart-topping Instrumental group The Shadows - No.1 in the hit parade for the fifth successive week with "Apache" - has been signed for its first appearances as top-of-the-bill solo stage attraction

NME 16. September 1960

Shadows Go Movie (Scopitone)
The Shadows have scored another first - starring in the very first video.disc': a technicolour promotional film made for use both on television and the specially designed video juke-boxes that have begun appearing in the bars of selected French and Italian costal holiday resorts.
Article NME Rock'N'Roll Decades 60 THE SIXTIES

Attachment: NME 30. September 1960 (filming 28. September 1960)

Surely the filmed performance will have been the now-familiar monochrome promo clip of the group miming to Apache?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-rPDwzM9M (with the audio overdubbed with the stereo version).

JN

NME 17.June 1960
Cliff Richard and his Shadows recording the first show of their new 13-week Radio Luxembourg series

hmr

I know Somerset "Scrumpy" can make you squint at things a bit funny but thats never Bruce in the silly hat! - er - is it??
cheers
ian

It's the same hat he was wearing in the clip. He must have been very attached to it at the time

Cheers.

Tony

The timelines are interesting regarding the amps which were used around that period. Some say that the AC30 was used during the recording of Apache and others (including me) say it was an AC15.

Apache was recorded and released in July 1960 and the mimed footage of Apache was filmed on 28th September 1960 (2 months later)and it's clear from the video clips that AC15's were still being used by the group at least as props.

chronikman-ch wrote:NME 17.June 1960
Cliff Richard and his Shadows recording the first show of their new 13-week Radio Luxembourg series 1960

hmr

NME 5.June 1959
Cliff Richard and his Drfters the first group of the new 13-week Radio Luxembourg series (starts on July 10 1959)

chronikman-ch wrote:

chronikman-ch wrote:NME 17.June 1960
Cliff Richard and his Shadows recording the first show of their new 13-week Radio Luxembourg series 1960

hmr

NME 5.June 1959
Cliff Richard and his Drfters the first group of the new 13-week Radio Luxembourg series (starts on July 10 1959)

NME 26.June 1959 Earlier start for Cliff's 208 series (July 3)