Shadows Original Albums

[Ryan]

Hi All,
Just wondered if anyone knows what all the original UK Shadows albums, in order, are? Would like to try and get them on cd, with original covers and artwork.
Cheers
Ryan

[Fenderman]

Excluding compilations (and M, W & F)they are:

The Shadows (1961)
Out of the Shadows (1962)
Dance with the Shadows (1964)
Sound of the Shadows (1965)
Shadow Music (1966)
Jigsaw (1967)
From Hank, Bruce, Brian & John (1967)
Established 1958 (1968 with Cliff Richard)
Shades of rock (1970)
Rocking with curly leads (1973)
Specs appeal (1975)
Live at the Paris Olympia (1975)
Tasty (1977)
String of hits (1979)
Change of address (1980)
Hits right up your street (1981)
Life in the jungle/live at abbey road (1982)
XXV (1983)
Guardian angel (1984)
Moonlight Shadows (1986)
Simply Shadows (1987)
At their very best (1989 - rerecordings of their early hits)
Steppin to the Shadows (1989)
Reflection (1990)

As far as my memory goes this is all the original releases, of course there are many solo, M, W & F and compilation releases.

[Ryan]

Hi Fenderman,
Cheers for that i can set about looking for them now.
Do you know the original Cliff and the Shadows albums in the order they came out aswell?
Much appreciated, Thank You very much
Ryan

[Fenderman]

Hmm, not sure about that as i'm not really a Cliff fan, you're best bet would be to check out the internet.
The first two were Cliff and Cliff sings (both 1959) but after that i'm not sure.

[iefje]

Excluding compilations (and M, W & F)they are:

The Shadows (1961)
Out of the Shadows (1962)
Dance with the Shadows (1964)
Sound of the Shadows (1965)
Shadow Music (1966)
Jigsaw (1967)
From Hank, Bruce, Brian & John (1967)
Established 1958 (1968 with Cliff Richard)
Shades of rock (1970)
Rocking with curly leads (1973)
Specs appeal (1975)
Live at the Paris Olympia (1975)
Tasty (1977)
String of hits (1979)
Change of address (1980)
Hits right up your street (1981)
Life in the jungle/live at abbey road (1982)
XXV (1983)
Guardian angel (1984)
Moonlight Shadows (1986)
Simply Shadows (1987)
At their very best (1989 - rerecordings of their early hits)
Steppin to the Shadows (1989)
Reflection (1990)

As far as my memory goes this is all the original releases, of course there are many solo, M, W & F and compilation releases.

I would add "Live At The Liverpool Empire" (coupled with a reissue of "'Live' At Abbey Road" on the See For Miles Records label in 2001) and "The Final Tour" (from 2004) as original or primary albums as well.

[Paul Childs]

Excluding compilations (and M, W & F)they are:

The Shadows (1961)
Out of the Shadows (1962)
Dance with the Shadows (1964)
Sound of the Shadows (1965)
Shadow Music (1966)
Jigsaw (1967)
From Hank, Bruce, Brian & John (1967)
Established 1958 (1968 with Cliff Richard)
Shades of rock (1970)
Rocking with curly leads (1973)
Specs appeal (1975)
Live at the Paris Olympia (1975)
Tasty (1977)
String of hits (1979)
Change of address (1980)
Hits right up your street (1981)
Life in the jungle/live at abbey road (1982)
XXV (1983)
Guardian angel (1984)
Moonlight Shadows (1986)
Simply Shadows (1987)
At their very best (1989 - rerecordings of their early hits)
Steppin to the Shadows (1989)
Reflection (1990)

As far as my memory goes this is all the original releases, of course there are many solo, M, W & F and compilation releases.

I would add "Live At The Liverpool Empire" (coupled with a reissue of "'Live' At Abbey Road" on the See For Miles Records label in 2001) and "The Final Tour" (from 2004) as original or primary albums as well.

and Live In Japan.

[Fenderman]

oops! Forgot about the live albums! I guess they are primary albums too.

[Monty]

The Columbia import album 'The Shadows Live in Japan' (1969) counts as an 'official' album release too

[Martin Page]

The Columbia import album 'The Shadows Live in Japan' (1969) counts as an 'official' album release too

it is also later paired up with 'Live in Paris' (1975) as part of 'The Shadows Live' 2 LP set on MFP records giving it a belated UK release.


There are some notable budget priced compilations worth grabbing for rarer tracks not so easily found
notably:

1) 'The Shadows' (aka 'Walkin' With The Shadows' - MFP Records) - has non album tracks; 'Running Out of World' in stereo plus; 'Walkin', 'Las Tres Carabelas', 'Sweet Dream' and 'I Wish I Could Shimmy...' etc
2) 'Mustang' - MFP records (particularly worth getting for rarer stereo versions of tracks not on LPs like 'Flyder and The Spy', 'Autumn', 'Alice in Sunderland' etc & stereo tracks of 'The Shadows' EP etc)
3) 'The Shadows...At The Movies' (MFP Records) - has stereo versions of 'The Boys' EP tracks & 'My Way' from 'Finders Keepers' LP
4) 'Rock on With The Shadows' (MFP Records) - not so important as no rare tracks & is in mono, but it has 16 tracks

5) 'Somethin' Else' (Regal Starline) - has rarer stereo versions of singles 'Tomorrow's Cancelled', 'Trying to Forget The One You Love' etc, & stereo 'B' sides; 'Quatermasster Store' 'Back Home' , 'The Breeze & I','This Hammer', & 'It's A Mans World' etc, plus early pre-Apache single; 'Saturday Dance & Lonesome Fella'

these budget priced compilations have quite alot of tracks NOT on the official albums thus are worth grabbing if you see them.

also the German Columbia 2LP set; 'The Best of The Shadows' - has tracks such as; 'Main Theme', 'Late Night Set', 'Bombay Duck', 'I Met A Girl' and 'I Can't Forget' etc in stereo

The Later EMI compilation LP; 'The Shadows Vocals' is also of note gathering together most of the vocal tracks from 1959-68 period

re Cliff/Shads:

there was in the early days:
'Cliff' (a Live in the studio set in front of fans by Cliff/Shadows with a few tracks by The Shadows only)
'Cliff Sings'
'Me and My Shadows' (all Cliff & Shads)
'Listen to Cliff' - half Cliff/Shadows & half Cliff/Orchestra
'32 minutes and 17 Seconds' with Cliff' - Shads on six of fourteen songs
'Cliff Richard' (1965 LP features about 3/4 tracks with The Shadows)

besides 'Cliff's Hit Album' & 'More Hits by Cliff' compilations these are the albums that mostly feature The Shadows (the film soundtracks & 'Aladdin' tend to be mostly Cliff with orchestra & a few Shadows & Cliff/Shadows tracks)

Not forgetting '21 Today'!

M

[Fenderman]

Plus one Cliff album (i forget which one) has the Shadows vocal 'Me oh My' which isn't easy to come by.
Rarities volume 2 is worth buying as it has this track and a few that were never released, it also has a few John Rostill and Hank Marvin solo tracks (mostly in stereo i think).