| Master-No: | 22 706 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Country: | GER |
| Release Date: | 1964-3 |
| Artist: | Shadows |
| A-Side: | Theme For Young Lovers |
| B-Side: | This Hammer |
| Beschreibung: | Composer A: Bruce Welch (From the film "Wonderful Life")
Length: Matrix No: 7 XCA 27 280 Composer B: Arr. Bruce Welch - Hank Marvin - Brian Bennett - Brian Locking Length: Matrix No: 7 XCA 27 281 Location: Studio 02 at Abbey Road Studios, London Recording Date: 1963-11-01 +1963-08-04 Musicians: Hank Marvin (lg) Bruce Welch (rg) Brian Locking (bg) Brian Bennett (drms) from: A pocket Guide to Shadow Music - Malcolm Campbell The A-side was the only non-collaborative Bruce Welch composition for the group; featured in UK/overseas concerts the year after it was recorded, it was included in the Final Tour of 2004/2005, with Hank Marvin referring to it specifically as Bruce’s tune. Although figuring on the Wonderful Life LP, in the film itself two minutes or so of the tune is heard as a piece of mood music performed by an unseen orchestra (the rather grand-sounding title is in fact quite appropriate to this particular restaurant scene). It is a beautiful smoothly flowing melody, one of those bittersweet affairs, which few instrumental groups could ever capture, a wistful, yearning track that has a haunting quality about it. Bruce himself was not present at the recording session, so Hank Marvin dubbed the rhythm guitar part on; here there is noticeable distortion in the mix, as Bruce has indicated on more than one occasion since, though it has to be said that there are other examples of poorly recorded acoustic guitar in the group’s repertoire! THIS HAMMER, popularised by virtue of becoming one of Lead Belly’s signature pieces, was a traditional Negro song common to Southern prison farms and work crews. It is given a bluesy arrangement and showcases Marvin and Welch’s close harmony technique, though the lyrics adopted here are not those commonly encountered: they are abridged and diluted, stripped of their traditional earthiness, colour and vigour. The strikingly resonant guitar breaks however are particularly fine, and it is these rather than the words that grab the attention. |
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