| Master-No: | 22 490 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Country: | GER |
| Release Date: | 1963-5-31 |
| Artist: | Shadows |
| A-Side: | Atlantis |
| B-Side: | I Want You To Want Me |
| Beschreibung: | Composer A: Jerry Lordan
Length: 2:47 Matrix No: 7 XCA 26 454 Composer B: Hank Marvin Length: 2:34 Matrix No: 7 XCA 26 455 Location: Studio 02 at Abbey Road Studios, London Recording Date: 1962-11-13 Musicians: Hank Marvin (lg) Bruce Welch (rg) Brian Locking (bg) Brian Bennett(drms) from: A pocket Guide to Shadow Music - Malcolm Campbell As we have seen, although Beatlemania and Merseybeat were exerting a stranglehold on the pop charts of 1963, it was to be a surprisingly good year for The Shadows. ATLANTIS completed the trio of instrumental classics from the pen of Jerry Lordan — the title (according to Record Mirror, dreamt up by the group while on a bus in Barcelona!) referring to the lost city and the Golden Age of Atlantis. There was something ethereally wistful, yearning about this record, another marvellous arrangement by Norrie Paramor adding a majestic grandeur to the qualities previously noted. All this plus alluring, wordless female voices coupled with a truly bravura performance from Hank. His guitar has a plangent tone — voice-whispering, weeping and exulting by turns. This was achieved by Hank’s sheer artistry, phrasing and constantly shifting tonal effects. The tune was the subject of mutual excitement at one of Bruce’s house parties when The Shadows played it (their latest release) on acoustics after The Beatles had played their new song ‘From Me To You’ for them. It was included in the soundtrack of the 1988 film ‘Buster’ at the specific request of big fan Phil Collins. The flip, recorded in Barcelona, was a swinging beat-vocal (their first on a Single since [9] SATURDAY DANCE) obviously influenced by The Beatles, who were themselves still at the stage, in thematic terms, of adding to popular music’s inexhaustible stock of formulaic love songs, only almost invariably doing it better than anybody else. George Harrison had suggested that The Shadows should try their hand at vocalising once more. David Gell in Beat Monthly 3 (July 1963) p.20 demonstrated the principle it is not possible to please all of the people all of the time: “The flip is a little disappointing in that The Shads have been influenced by The Beatles on this chanter. Great shame boys! There’s no need for this”. |
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