Theme For Young Lovers

[chas]

Can anyone upload, or provide a link so I can listen to 'Theme For Young Lovers' original Shads recording with the background strings/orchestration?

Thanks in advance, Chas.

[JohnBassist]

Hi Chas
The original TFYL had no background strings/orchestration - it was only the later versions that had the added backing and those are the ones that most of us are used to hearing now.
Kind regards
John

[neil2726]

Thats true, it was crying out for a string arrangement as in Wonderful Land and Atlantis. Although Bruce wrote it he didnt play on the recording - Hank did both lead and rhythm.

[chas]

Thanks John,
I've become so used to hearing it with 'strings' - live performances, backing tracks etc., that I'd convined myself that the original had them - so when I listened to 6 different compilations that I've got on cd (all EMI tracks, not later re-recordings) and found no strings, I was suprised. Well, that clears that one up!
All the best, Chas.

[bgohara]

Chas - I seem to remember that Bruce was interviewed a few years ago about the old and new versions and he made the same mistake about strings on the original!! It may have been an interview in Shadsfax (or maybe even quoted in one of Malcolm Campbell's books) where he said they copied the originals note for note

So nothing at all to worry about at all!

Bernie

[kipper]

Thats true, it was crying out for a string arrangement as in Wonderful Land and Atlantis. Although Bruce wrote it he didnt play on the recording - Hank did both lead and rhythm.

clever bugger then one in each hand peter

[Martyn]

Thats true, it was crying out for a string arrangement as in Wonderful Land and Atlantis. Although Bruce wrote it he didnt play on the recording - Hank did both lead and rhythm.

clever bugger then one in each hand peter

I can hold one guitar in each hand too - but as to playing them . . .

[GuitarPhil]

On the versions without strings that I have Hank starts the tune by playing a double hit on the high E string, 10th fret but on the version I have with strings (The Shadows Classic Hits Disc 1) it's just a single note - so it's not quite a note-for-note version . The tone is also different - not as bright on the strings version.

Regards,

Phil.

[BrianD]

I didn't know Hank played Bruce's part on this number. I wonder on how many other tracks Hank played both guitar parts and why?

Brian

[George Geddes]

The double note is a mis-master of the original recording, which seems to have been used more than once on recent compilations. ( I know at least one lead guitarist who always plays it that way > but I will preserve his anonymity...).

The Classic Hits CD from the Crimson 3-pack uses the 1989 re-recordings from the 'At their Very Best'.

George