| Master-No: | 22 806 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Country: | GER |
| Release Date: | 1964-8 |
| Artist: | Shadows |
| A-Side: | Rhythm And Greens |
| B-Side: | The Miracle |
| Beschreibung: | Composer A: Bruce Welch - Hank Marvin - Brian Bennett - John Rostill (From The Elstree Distributors Film Of The Same Name)
Length: Matrix No: 7 XCA 26 664 Composer B: Michael Carr - Norrie Paramor Length: Matrix No: 7 XCA 27 665 Location: Studio 02 at Abbey Road Studios, London Recording Date: 1964-07-12 + 1964-07-31 Musicians: Hank Marvin (lg) Bruce Welch (rg) John Rostill (bg) Brian Bennett (drms) from: A pocket Guide to Shadow Music - Malcolm Campbell The title track of this short support film (see next main entry) was described by Hank as “A raving great send-up of the R ’n’ B boom”. It was raw, gutsy playing from the group complete with humorous sound effects and crazy scat yelling: see further Introduction to 1964 above. The group had hoped that it might have fared better than its chart position of No.22 (their first disc not to make the Top 20 since APACHE). But Hank added a disclaimer: “Let’s face it, there wasn’t a great deal of melody there.” The working title of RHYTHM AND GREENS has been variously reported: the version, as entered on EMI Recording Instruction sheets, was ‘A Look At Rubbish’, whereas band members recall ‘A Load Of Rubbish’, the latter certainly sounding the more plausible; if it is correct, someone at the sessions must have misheard and made an erroneous entry (there is no shortage of parallels for that). George Geddes however acutely suggests a different path: he recalls the 60s cinema fillers, around nine minutes long, ‘Look At Life’, narrated by Tim Turner; subjects were many and various: there was a feature for example on Burns guitars, and another (figuring in the recent DVD release of the ‘Expresso Bongo’ [Collector’s Edition] DVD) about coffee shops and cafes that contained a minute of Brian Bennett and Brian Locking with The Krew Kats. THE MIRACLE (originally destined for the cinema??) was one of those stately opuses, which the group could play supremely well. Their own performance was augmented by The Norrie Paramor Strings and a harpist. Had this beautifully crafted fusion of beat-group and orchestra surfaced a year or two earlier, it would surely have been a mega-hit. Over a long career Michael Carr (see under November 1960, [14] MAN OF MYSTERY) collaborated with a range of composers — recently with Norrie Paramor (and Bunny Lewis) for the song ‘Another You’ featured in the 1963 B-movie ‘Murder Can Be Deadly’. |
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