cockroach wrote:It may be that some of the tunes from that era were not as memorable as the early hits?
As far as I recall, the only numbers from the days when the Burns guitars were played in public which made it through into the 1970s-1990s revival of the stage act were
The Rise And Fall of Flingel Bunt,
Don't Make My Baby Blue and
Somewhere. The latter two intermittently only - you couldn't guarantee they'd be played on a tour, though they certainly were performed from time to time.
During the Burns era 1964-1969, remarkably few of the group's current recordings were played on the theatre dates of which they played many, as well as many TV shows.
Apart from playing a few (and only a few) of the early hits, The Shads tended to promote their latest single (of course) and to play a few LP tracks. These came mainly from the "Dance With The Shadows" LP, with a few added from the "Sound of The Shadows" album the following year.
Choose a few from...
Dance With The Shadows:
Tonight,
Chattanooga Choo-Choo,
Big B,
In The Mood, maybe
Temptation as well.
The Sound Of The Shadows:
Brazil,
A Little Bitty Tear,
Five Hundred Miles,
Deep Purple (not totally sure about that last one).
Shadow Music: no tracks.
Jigsaw: no tracks.
From Hank, Bruce, Brian and John: no tracks (other than those specially recorded for BBC Radio but not performed live on stage or TV; the Shads also mimed to
Snap Crackle... on Christmas Day 1967).
Established 1958: no tracks.
In the sixties, after 1962, the only early hits you could be reasonably confident of hearing were
Apache,
FBI,
Dance On and
Foot Tapper, plus
The Rise And Fall.., as mentioned above.
Songs I never heard live in the 1960s included
Man Of Mystery,
The Stranger,
The Frightened City,
The Savage,
Wonderful Land (except for one occasion in 1962 while it was still in the charts),
Guitar Tango,
Atlantis or
Nivram. I did hear
Midnight played live, however, with Peter Carter on rhythm guitar.