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It's difficult to know what to make of this one. It's certainly generous -- 26 tracks spread over a single CD. It's also adventurous, chasing the Shadows throughout their EMI career and serving up some genuinely overlooked jewels. Their version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is as gently evocative as it ought to be; "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" is majestic; even "The Girl from Ipanema," a song that has really been heard way too often, was given a fresh lease on life by the Shadows' twang. But, and it's a big but, if you want to hear the band's greatest hits, do you want to hear them in their unadorned form? Or lavishly layered with posthumously recorded strings, orchestrated above and beyond their original purity, to swell and burst over the confines of the original scratchy vinyl -- to sound, in other words, nothing like the treasures that Hank and company originally laid down? It's not a bad album; sometimes the strings add little more than a sensitive background wash to the proceedings, and straightforward CD remasterings have unearthed more intrusive additions than these. They're sensitive and somehow moving. Other times, however, the Shadows themselves are lost beneath the cellos and violins, and you end up wondering who this album really belongs to. The greatest guitar band in history? Or whoever had the idea of slapping strings all over them? Approach with caution.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Norrie Paramor, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Carr, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Orchestral Arranger - Bruce Welch, Composer, Guitar - The Shadows, Producer, MainArtist - John Farrar, Guitar - Dick Plant, Engineer - Hank Marvin, Composer, Guitar - Brian Bennett, Composer, Drums - Tony Clark, Engineer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1977 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Richard Rodgers, Composer, Writer - Orchestra, Orchestra - Brian Bennett, Conductor, Arranger - Ken Scott, RecordingEngineer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1969 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - John Rostill, Composer - Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Vince, Engineer - Hank Marvin, Composer - Brian Bennett, Composer - Richard Lush, Engineer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Black, Composer - Korpar, Composer - Persiljeva, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1968 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Arranger - Franz Liszt, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Composer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - AGUSTIN LARA, Composer - Willy Mattes, Arranger
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - John Bryant, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1968 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Joaquin Rodrigo, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1979 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Padilla, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1968 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Composer, Writer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Julio César Sanders, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - César Vedani, Lyricist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Paul Ferris, Composer - P Ferris, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Paul Simon, Writer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1979 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Strings - The Norrie Paramor Strings, Strings
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norman Gimbel, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Vinicius De Moraes, Composer - António Carlos Jobim, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Norman Maine, Composer - Georges Lifermann, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Strings - The Norrie Paramor Strings, Strings
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Jerry Lordan, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Lordan, Composer, Writer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1962 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
MASON WILLIAMS, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1979 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Jerry Lordan, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Alguero Jnr, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Al Stillman, Composer - Ernesto Lecuona, Composer
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
It's difficult to know what to make of this one. It's certainly generous -- 26 tracks spread over a single CD. It's also adventurous, chasing the Shadows throughout their EMI career and serving up some genuinely overlooked jewels. Their version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is as gently evocative as it ought to be; "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" is majestic; even "The Girl from Ipanema," a song that has really been heard way too often, was given a fresh lease on life by the Shadows' twang. But, and it's a big but, if you want to hear the band's greatest hits, do you want to hear them in their unadorned form? Or lavishly layered with posthumously recorded strings, orchestrated above and beyond their original purity, to swell and burst over the confines of the original scratchy vinyl -- to sound, in other words, nothing like the treasures that Hank and company originally laid down? It's not a bad album; sometimes the strings add little more than a sensitive background wash to the proceedings, and straightforward CD remasterings have unearthed more intrusive additions than these. They're sensitive and somehow moving. Other times, however, the Shadows themselves are lost beneath the cellos and violins, and you end up wondering who this album really belongs to. The greatest guitar band in history? Or whoever had the idea of slapping strings all over them? Approach with caution.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:04
- Main artists: The Shadows
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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