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No doubt some Shads fans have already done this (probably long ago !) but taking the instrumental tracks from 'Specs Appeal' & 'Tasty' plus a couple of others it's possible to compile the 'all instrumental' studio tracks follow up album to 'Rockin With Curly Leads' from the early to mid seventies 'John Farrar era' of The Shadows

something like this (just a suggested order of tracks):

"side one"
1.God Only Knows
2.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3.Rose, Rose
4.Honky Tonk Women
5.Colorado Songbird
6.No No Nina (instrumental version)
"side two"
7.Honorable Puff Puff
8.Superstar
9.Spider Juice
10.The Most Beautiful Girl
11.Like Strangers
12.The Air That I Breathe
'Bonus track"
13.God Only Knows (mono intended single mix)

I think that was all the instrumental tracks that featured John Farrar in the band (?) - please advise if you know otherwise - tho' a few more instrumentals such as:
Walk Don't Run
Another Night
Bermuda Triangle
Sweet Saturday Night
would not sound out of place as further 'bonus tracks' here as they feature several backup or counter melody guitars behind Hank's lead guitar thus were in the same instrumental style

while an all vocal Shadows album with John Farrar might be:

1.Marmaduke (Live in Paris 1975)
2.Cool Clear Air
3.This House Runs on Sunshine
4.Music Makes My Day (Live in Paris, 1975)
5.Run Billy Run
6.No No Nina (vocal version)
7.Lonesome Mole (live in Paris, 1975)
8.Don't Throw it All Away
9.Lady of The Morning (Live in Paris, 1975)
10.Faithful (Live in Paris,1975)
11.Let Me Be The One
12.Tiny Robin (Live in Paris, 1975)
13.It'll Be Me, Babe
14.Stand up Like A Man
"Bonus Tracks'
15. Let Me Be The One (Live in Paris, 1975)
16.Medley:
a) Lucille
b) Rip it up
c)Blue Suede Shoes (Live in Paris, 1975)

I think these make for interesting compilations concentrating on just their instrumental tracks, and then just the vocals.

I've been listening to that 2CD complete 'Live in Paris' Magic records CD version, it's fascinating how John Farrar plays some harmony lead guitar with Hank and some harmony backup guitar alongside Bruce on tracks (sometimes doing a bit of each during a track !) & while I agree his part on 'Dance On' sounds a bit strange (as we are so used to the traditional Shads version per the hit) Farrar's harmony lead & backup guitar is excellent overall and powers up their classic guitar sound plus vocally John Farrar gave them a very distinctive sound.

There's a bit of very Farrarish vocal in God Only Knows, one might argue. You could add Good Vibrations to the track listing though.

...this reminds me that a proper CD release of the Marvin+Farrar set from the Cliff Live in Japan '72 record is long (43 years!!) overdue. I think this is at least on a par with the Shadows Live in Paris '75 in terms of quality, but as far as I'm aware has only ever been issued on the original Cliff Goes East (minus Something and Keep the Customer Satisfied), Cliff Live in Japan records and the Italian Fremus 'official bootleg'.

Monty wrote:No doubt some Shads fans have already done this (probably long ago !) but taking the instrumental tracks from 'Specs Appeal' & 'Tasty' plus a couple of others it's possible to compile the 'all instrumental' studio tracks follow up album to 'Rockin With Curly Leads' from the early to mid seventies 'John Farrar era' of The Shadows

something like this (just a suggested order of tracks):

"side one"
1.God Only Knows
2.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3.Rose, Rose
4.Honky Tonk Women
5.Colorado Songbird
6.No No Nina (instrumental version)
"side two"
7.Honorable Puff Puff
8.Superstar
9.Spider Juice
10.The Most Beautiful Girl
11.Like Strangers
12.The Air That I Breathe
'Bonus track"
13.God Only Knows (mono intended single mix)

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Yeah, I did the exact same thing a few years back - I called it 'Specs Appeal - 1974 version' !!