Shadows Rarities

[shadowriter]

Does anyone know if the 'Shadows Rarities' EMI LP was ever issued on CD? It does say on the sleeve,
available on tape, but no mention of a CD issue.

[JimN]

That LP (EMI NUT 2, UK 1976) was never re-released on CD in UK (or anywhere else in Europe as far as I am aware).

But...

It was re-released on CD in Australia, as half of a CDx2 release which also compiled the LP "Out Of The Shadows". This was on the Ozzie Rainbow label, and Ian Kershaw of SCOFA sent me a copy, back in... er... 1991.

The full details (from my record collection database) are:

RARITIES CDx2
The SHADOWS (21 tracks)
Hank MARVIN (8 tracks)
1991 (approx)
Rainbow (Australia)
2RCD 053/054 (stereo/mono*)

DISC ONE ("Rarities"):

1. Goodnight Dick* [Hank Marvin]
2. Wahine* [Hank Marvin]
3. London's Not Too Far* [Hank Marvin]
4. Morning Star [Hank Marvin]
5. Boogatoo [Hank Marvin]
6. Break Another Dawn [Hank Marvin]
7. Midnight Cowboy [Hank Marvin]
8. Sunday For Seven Days* [Hank Marvin]
9. Scotch On The Socks*
10. Theme From 'The Boys'
11. Lady Penelope*
12. Zero 'X' Theme*
13. Thunderbirds Theme*
14. Friends
15. The Miracle*
16. Slaughter On 10th Avenue

DISC TWO ("Out Of The Shadows":

1. The Rumble
2. The Bandit (v)
3. Cosy
4. "1861"
5. Perfidia (stereo version)
6. Little 'B'
7. Bo Diddley (v)
8. South Of The Border
9. Spring Is Nearly Here
10. Are They All Like You? (v)
11. Tales Of A Raggy Tramline
12. Some Are Lonely
13. Kinda Cool.

An Australian budget re-release of the Hank Marvin/Shadows LP "Rarities" (1976) and the Shadows' "Out Of The Shadows" LP (1962). Bought 1991 (mail-order from Ian Kershaw).

[JimN]

As you can see, it was an uncritical reissue of the master tape for the LP, with no change for tracks published in mono.

They all had stereo versions, though, which were eventually issued on other CDs.

[shadowriter]

Thanks Jim, brilliant details as always.
I have the out of the shadows cd, so it looks like my LP will have to stay
on my transfer to CD, list for a while longer.
Thanks again Jim, much appreciated.
Norman

[JimN]

Norman,

All the tracks on "Rarities" are available on other CDs, and all of them in stereo.

[iefje]

Does anyone know if the 'Shadows Rarities' EMI LP was ever issued on CD? It does say on the sleeve,
available on tape, but no mention of a CD issue.

At the time of the release of the original LP issue (1976), the Compact Disc as a music medium was still in the development stage and it wasn't until 1982 that the first CD's appeared.

The nine tracks in mono appeared in stereo for the first time on the following releases:
- "Goodnight Dick", "Wahine" and "Sunday For Seven Days" on the 1987 See For Miles Records UK LP (on CD in 1989) "Would You Believe It...Plus!". "Sunday For Seven Days" is a different version in stereo.
- "London's Not Too Far" on the 1998 EMI UK CD "Hank Marvin", where it is a stereo remix.
- "Scotch On The Socks", "Zero X Theme" and "Thunderbirds Theme" on the 1997 EMI UK CD "The Shadows At Abbey Road", where these tracks are stereo remixes. Here, "Scotch On The Socks" includes some studio banter and also 'larking about' during virtually the whole track.
- "Lady Penelope" on the 2013 Parlophone UK 6 CD box set "The Early Years (Expanded Edition) – Their Complete Studio Recordings 1959-1966", where it is a stereo remix.
- "The Miracle" on the 1965 Italian LP "Hallo, Shadows".

[shadowriter]

Thanks Lefje

I do have most of the tracks on other CDs. Mostly as you say on the EMI Hank Marvin 1998
remastered CD.
The only tracks I don't have are Friends, The Miracle and Lady Penelope.
Thanks for the info on Lady Penelope. Do you have any info on the other two
Friends and The miracle.

[Moderne]

It's worth mentioning that the original mono mix of Hank's Sunday for Seven Days (the b-side of Sacha) is IMHO superior to the later stereo mix - a bit like The Shads' Trying to Forget the One You Love (b-side of Dear Old Mrs Bell). As well as the original single, it can be heard on the original Rarities LP (subject of this thread), The Shadows Collection (a 3-CD EMI set...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-SHADOWS- ... SwoydWr9ct) and the Sainsbury's Throw Down A Line - A Taste of Hank Marvin double LP which came out in 2018. Not sure if it's been reissued on any other records/CDs.

[JimN]

The Miracle has been made available on CD in stereo on:

(a) the original version of "The Early Years" CDx6 (UK) from the early 1990s,

(b) "The Shadows With Strings Attached" CD EMI (UK) 526092 2,

(c) "Somethin' Else!! / Apache" CD Magic Records (Fr) MAM113, and

(d) "The Early Years (expanded edition)" CDx6 Warner / Parlophone (UK) 444 2702.

That last set is well worth having, not only for your "missing" stereo version of Lady Penelope, but also for stereo versions of French Dressing and Blue Shadows never otherwise available in stereo. There are also true mono versions of thirty-one other tracks appended as disc 6 (and the last two tracks of disc 5).

[shadowriter]

It's worth mentioning that the original mono mix of Hank's Sunday for Seven Days (the b-side of Sacha) is IMHO superior to the later stereo mix - a bit like The Shads' Trying to Forget the One You Love (b-side of Dear Old Mrs Bell). As well as the original single, it can be heard on the original Rarities LP (subject of this thread), The Shadows Collection (a 3-CD EMI set...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-SHADOWS- ... SwoydWr9ct) and the Sainsbury's Throw Down A Line - A Taste of Hank Marvin double LP which came out in 2018. Not sure if it's been reissued on any other records/CDs.

Thanks for that info, much appreciated.