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The Shadows - Greatest Hits And More Hits (1984 Uk Columbia Scx 1152/3578 24-96 Needledrop)(Son-Of-Albion)

Track listing:
  1. Apache 2:58
  2. Man Of Mystery 2:04
  3. The Stranger 2:44
  4. Fbi 2:22
  5. Midnight 2:33
  6. The Frightened City 2:24
  7. Kon-Tiki 1:57
  8. 36-24-36 1:45
  9. The Savage 2:26
  10. Peace Pipe 2:15
  11. Wonderful Land 2:06
  12. Stars Fell On Stockton 2:20
  13. Guitar Tango 3:02
  14. The Boys 2:35
  15. Dance On 2:25
  16. Foot Tapper 2:37
  17. Atlantis 2:51
  18. Shindig 2:22
  19. Theme For Young Lovers 2:41
  20. Geronimo 2:23
  21. Shazam 2:23
  22. The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt 2:49
  23. Genie With The Light Brown Lamp 2:44
  24. Mary-Anne 2:28
  25. Stingray 2:32
  26. Rhythm And Greens 2:25
  27. Don't Make My Baby Blue 2:16
  28. The Lute Number 1:57
  29. The Drum Number 1:58

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The Shadows – Greatest Hits (1963) & More Hits (1965) 24-bit/96kHz

Rock, Pop | 1984 UK re-press | Columbia SCX 1152/3578

A straightforward summary of the Shadows' first three years of habitual hit-making, opening with the pounding flurry of "Apache," then tracing through the next eight smash singles, with a handful of attendant B-sides (and one EP cut, the title track from The Boys) to round the package out. There is no denying the sheer brilliance of this early sequence.

Hits like "Wonderful Land," "FBI," and "Man of Mystery" utterly rewrote the guitar's role in rock, not only musically, but culturally as well. Unquestionably, the Shadows' importance and impact diminished as the years passed, but at the outset of their career -- the period documented here -- they were untouchable. It is for that reason that The Shadows' Greatest Hits is still regarded in some quarters as the finest Shadows album of them all, an accolade which no other compilation (and goodness knows, there's been enough of them) has ever been able to dismiss. Even the sleeve screams "masterpiece." Dave Thompson, Allmusic.

Track listing:

“Greatest Hits”
01. Apache
02. Man of Mystery
03. The Stranger
04. F.B.I.
05. Midnight
06. The Frightened City
07. Kon-Tiki
08. 36-24-36
09. The Savage
10. Peace Pipe
11. Wonderful Land
12. Stars Fell On Stockton
13. Guitar Tango
14. The Boys
15. Dance On

“More Hits”
16. Foot Tapper
17. Atlantis
18. Shindig
19. Theme For Young Lovers
20. Geronimo
21. Shazam
22. The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt
23. Genie With The Light Brown Lamp
24. Mary-Anne
25. Stingray
26. Rhythm And Greens
27. Don’t Make My Baby Blue
28. The Lute Number
29. The Drum Number

Personnel:

Hank Marvin – Lead Guitar
Bruce Welch – Rhythm Guitar
Jet Harris – Bass Guitar
Tony Meehan – Drums
Brian Bennett – Drums on 12-29
Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking – Bass Guitar on 13-29
Recorded at Abbey Road, Studio 2, London
Engineer Malcolm Addey
Produced by Norrie Paramor

Technicals:

Knosti RCM.
Michell GyroDec full version.
Funk Firm FXR II Tonearm.
Audio Technica AT33PTG/II MC Cartridge.
Harman Kardon HK990 Integrated Amplifier.
Gold Interconnects. E-MU 0204 Audio Interface.
Recording, split and manual de-click with Adobe Audition 3.0.1
Click Repair 3.9.1
Vinyl transfer by son-of-albion, July 2014.