| Master-No: | 22 403 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Country: | GER |
| Release Date: | 1963-3-7 |
| Artist: | Shadows |
| A-Side: | Foot Tapper |
| B-Side: | The Breeze And I |
| Beschreibung: | Composer A: Hank Marvin - Bruce Welch
Length: 2:24 Matrix No: 7 XCR 50 181 Composer B: Lecuona - Stillman Length: 2:45 Matrix No: 7 XCA 26 377 Location: Abbey Road Studios, London Recording Date: 1962-12-10 + 1962-06-12 Musicians: Hank Marvin (lg) Bruce Welch (rg) Brian Locking (bg) Brian Bennett(drms) Norrie Paramor Orchestra from: A pocket Guide to Shadow Music - Malcolm Campbell FOOT TAPPER, the group’s only self-penned No.1 hit, remains one of the group’s most instantly recognisable melodies. Bruce Welch: “Not long after completing filming ‘Summer Holiday’, we received an urgent phone call from the producer. The soundtrack was too short and he urgently needed a few more minutes’ music. Had we got anything? I remembered a number that Hank and I had written. It didn’t even have a title. We’d been appearing at The Olympia in Paris. After one particular show, Jacques Tati (of ‘M. Hulot’s Holiday’ and ‘Mon Oncle’ fame) came backstage to see us. He asked us if we’d write some music for his next film. We were all Jacques Tati fans, and we agreed. Hank and I virtually wrote one number there and then, in the dressing-room at The Olympia. It only took us twenty or thirty minutes. That number became FOOT TAPPER. We heard nothing further from Jacques, so we used it for ‘Summer Holiday’ instead. We worked out a very basic arrangement because we were so short of time. It was virtually a demo. We decided to release it as a Single, but we re-recorded it first.” (NME 15 March: “... we recorded the album in rather a hurry and, although the fans might not have noticed anything wrong, we felt there were one or two passages on which we could improve”!). The Album (see previous entry) and Single versions are easily distinguished: the playing on the latter is more assured (in particular, lead guitar and drums have greater clarity), the tempo is slower and there is an arranged ending rather than a fade-out. Ulrich Sasu notes that although the project with Jacques Tati was cancelled, in 1963 Petula Clark recorded for an EP a French vocal version of FOOT TAPPER, ‘Mon bonheur danse’ (with lyrics by Georges Aber, the man behind Cliff Richard’s ‘The Time In Between’). That same year indeed had seen the release of a DANCE ON! under the title ‘Je me sens bien’, which reached No.1 in Canada in March 1963 (Kathy Kirby’s version was some months later). This track was a Top 3 hit for Petula in France and was also recorded by her in Italian and, strictly for the Canadian market, in English. |
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