The Shadows On The Val Doonican Show

[captainhaddock]

Thanks for pointing out another brilliant clip from "Andrewshadowy", wonderful!!!!!!!!.

[drakula63]

Brilliant! And from the look of the TX date, it was broadcast on my 4th birthday!!! Sadly, I don't remember it!!!!

Nice one. Thanks!!!

[Rosemary]

Thanks for these YouTube links from Andrewshadowy. This one in particular is amazing as I've never heard them performing these numbers and it shows their vocal talent and brilliant all-round musicianship so well even despite the poor sound quality being such an old tape. Pure gold!
best wishes
Rosemary

[George Geddes]

Presumably they were miming to previously recorded tracks, as neither of these numbers exist in studio versions.

George

[Shad1]

Not convinced they were miming to 'Putting on the Style' George. John Rostill even visibly bent the second last note on his bass. Will have to look again.....may be a 'two piper'.........

Malc

[chronikman-ch]

The Shadows performing "Lara's Theme" and "Putting On The Style" from the Val Doonican Show:

Thanks for these YouTube links from Andrewshadowy
hmr

Attachment: New Musical Express 18. November 1967

[JimN]

It sounds to me as though Lara's Theme is the same version as broadcast on the BBC World Service programme "Top Of The Pops" and probably on "Easy Beat". It was already in the BBC "can" of course, as were a number of live-in-the-BBC-studio versions of other 1966/67 Shads releases (some of which have surfaced on BBC transcription LPs).

Eventually, the later studio version of Lara's Theme would be credited to Hank only, though it may have started life along with some combination of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Born Free, The Big Country and The Windmills Of Your Mind as probables for the mooted Shadows LP of film music, from which only Slaughter On 10th Avenue ever reached the shelves as a Shads product.

Puttin' On The Style was a slightly later addition to the canon (from the Hawkshaw period) and was never released in a studio version. I didn't know it had its Shads origins in the period when Bruce was still with the group - but it makes sense that it was introduced around the same time as Cool Water, another acoustic country-styled adaptation.

JN

[martcaster]

Thanks for posting this,Phil. Brought back a lot of memories listening to Chris' reel to reel recording of it over 40 years ago. How sad is this? I could remember all of the dialogue, word for word.
Love to all,
Mart.

[StuartD]

I also remember, from a Christmas show, the Shadows backing Jimmy Tarbuck n 'It's in Her Kiss'

Regards

Stuart

[JimN]

I also remember, from a Christmas show, the Shadows backing Jimmy Tarbuck n 'It's in Her Kiss'

Hi, Stuart,

1965.

The same show wherein all four Shadows played (simultaneous) piano on Wonderful Land (the recording of that was released on the Fremus CD "Atlantis" (CDFR 0543.

Best wishes,

JN