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Just a quick message to let you all know I have completed a new feature for Malcolm Campbell's Shadows Website: instrumentation on Cliff Richard & The Shadows Recordings.
Also, I have made some vast changes to almost all files of the existing features on instrumentation.

Both additions are online now:
http://www.malcolmcampbell.me.uk/instrumentation-cliff/
http://www.malcolmcampbell.me.uk/instru ... on-update/

A warm thank you to Malcolm and Richard Campbell.

I've just glanced at 'End of the Show' from Thank You Very Much and I have a 'feeling' that Mo Foster is playing a synth on this track. I am fairly sure that if you watch the video, you'll see that this is so. I would certainly be surprised if there were two bass guitars on this. Just a thought.

Move It - Frank Clarke: electric bass guitar.

Really? Sounds like a double bass to me.

Iain Purdon wrote: Really? Sounds like a double bass to me.

Confirmed in Mo Foster's 17 Watts? (P.135). He quotes Ian Samwell, who wrote Move It and played rhythm guitar on the session:-
"Also we felt that we didn't want a stand-up bass player because that wasn't real rock 'n' roll anymore. It was time to move on - electric bass was better. So I was initially very disappointed when Norrie booked Frank Clark on his enormous acoustic bass, but he was a terrific guy and he played beautifully with great energy"

drakula63 wrote:I've just glanced at 'End of the Show' from Thank You Very Much and I have a 'feeling' that Mo Foster is playing a synth on this track. I am fairly sure that if you watch the video, you'll see that this is so. I would certainly be surprised if there were two bass guitars on this. Just a thought.

I have checked the footage of the track and yes, you are right. It is not easy to see on the footage, but during that track, Mo Foster is indeed on synthesizers, as well as Graham Todd I think, but I cannot spot Cliff Hall. Alan Jones is on bass guitar. Hank, Bruce, Terry Britten, Graham Murray and Dave Christopher on guitars. Brian and Clem Cattini on drums and Graham Jarvis on congas and I suspect tambourine. Tony Rivers, Stuart Calver and John Perry on backing vocals and of course Cliff Richard on lead vocals.

RayL wrote:

Iain Purdon wrote: Really? Sounds like a double bass to me.

Confirmed in Mo Foster's 17 Watts? (P.135). He quotes Ian Samwell, who wrote Move It and played rhythm guitar on the session:-
"Also we felt that we didn't want a stand-up bass player because that wasn't real rock 'n' roll anymore. It was time to move on - electric bass was better. So I was initially very disappointed when Norrie booked Frank Clark on his enormous acoustic bass, but he was a terrific guy and he played beautifully with great energy"

OK, thank you guys. I will correct this for my future update.

RayL wrote:

Iain Purdon wrote: Really? Sounds like a double bass to me.

Confirmed in Mo Foster's 17 Watts? (P.135). He quotes Ian Samwell, who wrote Move It and played rhythm guitar on the session:-
"Also we felt that we didn't want a stand-up bass player because that wasn't real rock 'n' roll anymore. It was time to move on - electric bass was better. So I was initially very disappointed when Norrie booked Frank Clark on his enormous acoustic bass, but he was a terrific guy and he played beautifully with great energy"

Then it's also fair to assume that "Schoolboy Crush" (recorded on the same date as "Move It") and "High Class Baby", "My Feet Hit The Ground" and "Don't Bug Me Baby" (both recorded on October 3rd, 1958), also feature the double bass by Frank Clarke.

I'd think so, yes.