Comments on: THE SHADOWS – “Dance On!”

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:51:39 +0000

The recently departed Kathy Kirby had a vocal hit with Dance On. And it was written by The Avons, who had the UK hit with Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat. And, err, still not much else to say… I like the octave switch down.

“Shads stuff with fairly generic titles”… the b-side’s called All Day… no memory of it at all!

Has anyone heard Pet Clark’s vocal version of Foot Tapper??

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:42:49 +0000

link dnw (edit: I see what happened)

http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/06/strand-of-sand-shadows-atlantis.html

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:56:20 +0000

More on The Shadows here: http://musicsoundsbetterwithtwo.blogspot.com/2011/06/strand-of-sand-shadows-atlantis-html

By: Mark G

Mark G — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:32:20 +0000

The trouble with a lot of the Shad’s stuff with fairly generic titles is remembering which one is which!

I was about to take issue and say “but what about the drum/guitar playoff?” but that was Foot Tapper, wasn’t it?

Anyhow, there was a period in the mid sixties between their “big hits” and before they took to the MOR “ding ding ding” instrumental versions of vocal tracks, where they cooked up some great stuff. Check out CD2 and 3 of the “Complete singles” 4CD set!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:43:13 +0000

The blurb for Elvis’ “Good Luck Charm” is shorter!

I’m very glad to see comments on some of these older entries by the way. Most of the ones from ’56 or so on used to have a healthy few comments – not the 100+ epics we get now, but half a dozen or so – and they were all lost when we switched comments systems. So the old entries can look like a bit of a wasteland.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:32:12 +0000

Tom, I wish I could tear into you for the shortest analysis yet. But what to say? Only that Atlantis, a Jerry Lordan-penned atmospheric blinder that settled at number 2 later in the year, was once voted the greatest record of all time on a Liverpool radio station. Dance On defines cruise control, shoulda been Top 5 at best. Neil Young probably didn’t have it in mind when he namechecked Hank B Marvin on the back of Buffalo Springfield Again.