The Shadows-"Jungle Fever"

[captainhaddock]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42aKIWJrHzg

Gotcha? Ok, I know it's not them, but would this be the backing group for Bobby Vee?

[David Martin]

Did about half an hour's digging on this... The Del-Fi studios were in LA and this was released in 1958. The Bobby Vee band were in another part of US and still at school I think...

[StanfordTuck]

They are the Carlos Brothers (never heard off anyway ) according to the internet based around Los Angeles

Cees

[Paulps]

Bobby Vee and The Shadows were playing in 1958. They stood in for Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in Fargo, the night after the fatal plane crash (3/2/1959). Their first single (Suzie Baby/Fly'n High) was recorded in 1959, financing the session themselves, which led to their contract with Liberty Records, Bobby signing a solo contract at the same time.

[captainhaddock]

Many thanks for the answers. I wonder how many Shadows fans looked at the clip on you-tube with a feeling of anticipation only to be deflated!!!!.

[cockroach]

BOB DYLAN was one of Bobby Vee's band the Shadows in autumn 1959- playing piano...

He was an old friend of Bobby Vee , who was from Fargo, North Dakota, but raised not too far from where Bob Dylan lived, a couple of years before Dylan went folk and went to New York in about 1961, after being a rock'n'roller for some years.

Dylan joined the band for some of Vee's local gigs...although Vee didn't really need a piano player, and it was hard to find pianos in tune in the local halls and venues

Not many people know that Bob Dylan was once a Shadow!!

(This informatiion comes from the only book about Dylan that I've ever read and bought- it's Chronicles Volume one- written by Dylan himself...and a very interesting read, even if you are not a big Dylan fan)