Comments on: THE SHADOWS - “Apache”

By: rosie

rosie — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:38:09 +0000

PS, no it wasn’t number one when I started school. That was a year earlier! Doh!

By: rosie

rosie — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:01:55 +0000

So this was number one when I started school. I was probably aware of the piece at that time too; I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know Apache, but I knew nothing of charts at five years old (I was a late school-starter on the Wirral, partly down to Cheshire being out of step with the rest of the country in its school year. In a few years they’d fall into line, resulting in me missing a whole year from my education. The results of that can’t be quantified but I’m quite sure there was a disadvantage for me in it.)

Anyway, for a long time to come it was what you plucked out when you found yourself with a guitar in your hand. And its lagacy lives on - a Barrow busker was playing it in Portland Walk the other week.

By: R Friday

R Friday — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:03:35 +0000

was jorgen Ingman in the American Army from 1959-1961 in Germany?
and did he cut one more record in that time ?
TKs R

By: Doctor Mod

Doctor Mod — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:33:53 +0000

I remember the version by Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingman, which was a big hit in the states. (Was it possibly the first Euro-rock hit in the States? It was surely the first Scandinavian rock hit.) I didn’t hear the Shadows version until many years later, and I’m not sure which followed which–I don’t think it was an original in either case.

After hearing both, I prefer Ingman’s. It’s much more subtle and possesses a sort of virtuosity that the Shadows didn’t have. I particularly liked the little touch Ingman had of quietly making the guitar strings sound like arrows zinging.

No doubt one of the high points, either version, of the instrumental trend that was so strong at the time.

I still recall dressing myself in “Indian” garb and dancing around the living room to it–when I thought no one was watching.