32 responses to “2021 SONG DRAFT- ROUND 3 PICK 8-RUN-SEW-READ SELECTS- ‘APACHE’- THE SHADOWS”

1. Great pick Diana. As I think I made clear on a previous post, I also love instrumentals, and ‘Apache’ is one of the best from the 60s. Love those surf guitars. My parents had that Ventures album, so their version is the one I remember most. But I like the Shadows’ version a lot too.

   • Thanks, fellow appreciator of instrumentals! My parents had Apache on a 45 single. We were in the US, but I swear they had The Shadows version, although I don’t remember that for sure. Could have been the Ventures. Either way, we were both brought up right. 😉

   • Oh, yeah… I nearly did a post on the Ventures Walk, Don’t Run. My dad had that album, Paul Mauriat, Hugo Montenegro… I grew up with a lot of instrumentals.

     It didn’t occur to me to choose music categories. I chose decades.

     This song makes me laugh because I’m so used to The Sugarhill Gang’s version and the clip from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. “Jump on it, jump on it…” LOL!

   • I had to look up the Fresh Prince clip, and now will not be able to unsee it, haha! That was great.

   • It’s absolutely crazy. I think Will & Alfonso did it, again, on an episode of the Graham Norton Show?

   • I saw that. 😀

   • I thought of the sugar hill gang too lol

   • You can’t help but smile.

   • Oh, and another instrumental that would be behind Walk, Don’t Run is Pipeline by The Chantays. Love that one, too.

   • The theme to Hawaii 5-O was on my possibles for the draft…..

2. This song takes you back to the early sixties even if you were not there.

   I’m no expert but he is playing a Fender Stratocaster with lot of reverb! The Fender gave it a thin sound and the reverb made the song sound full. Hank Marvin also used what I call a “whammy bar” on the guitar (tremolo arm) to make it wobbly in parts. Hendrix would later use that bar to take songs to space.

   I think Harrison and Lennon used this song and The Shadows in general to base the Beatles song “Cry For a Shadow” on.

   Hank Marvin is great…I love his doubling on the pick.

   Nice pick! no pun intended.

   • And there’s some of that guitar expertise I was missing! Thanks for the info! The Harrison-Lennon take on the Shadows was interesting. I wonder if any recordings exist of them playing Apache in Hamburg. I did a quick search when preparing this post, but nothing came up. Only the mention of Harrison saying they played it. I’d love to hear what they sounded like.

   • I’m glad I could help!
     I remember reading they did it in Hamburg…minus the dance steps of course. I’ve never heard a version by them though.

     It was the song Man of Mystery by the Shadows that they had not heard that was the follow up to Apache…they had Rory Storm hum and whistle it to them so they could try to learn it…that turned into Cry For A Shadow.

     I remembered that part because it was such a strange way to learn or write a song lol.

   • That’s a great story. about Rory Storm. And, I’m laughing out loud at the image in my mind of the early Hamburg Beatles doing the Shadows dance steps. 😀

   • LOL yea they would not go there for sure. That is where I would have loved to see The Beatles. Away from home and playing just what and how they wanted.

   • I love this kind of tidbit of knowledge about my favorite musicians.

   • Isn’t that cool? Rory Storm was a bad stutter but he got them started by whistling but couldn’t remember the rest…so they just filled it in where they thought it should go….out came Cry For A Shadow

   • I would love to hear that too, Diana.

3. More instrumentals in the takes.. So many good ones. Great choice on this. You are sending me into that vibe. Love that sound. Like your other options also. I came across a cool album a while ago. ‘Guitar In The Space Age’ by Bill Frisell. You might dig it.

   • Yep, and you certainly drafted a good instrumental already. (You picked the Booker T song, right?) I’ll check out that album. Thanks for the tip.

   • Yes I think your choice is the 3rd or 4th instrumental picked.
     Bill’s album is a real homage to bands like the Shadows, Ventures, people like Link Wray, Duane Eddy and others.

   • I found and sampled Bill’s album. It is a nice collection.

   • Bill thanks you.

4. Awesome choice. Always loved this song. Only heard the original once or twice. We always played the Jorgen Igmann hit version on the oldies stations I worked at.

   Here is link to that…. https://youtu.be/TyXLJsO_ulw

   All these instrumentals are making me want to feature an instrumental song once a week on my blog…..

   • Thanks! I like that Jorgen Igmann version. A ‘weekly instrumental’ would be a neat blog feature. There are so many good ones.

   • I agree. Keith, go for it!

   • Great pick- plus I will check out your list of other instrumentals – not familiar with many. This one reminds me vaguely of a Clint Eastwood western lime maybe Good Bad Ugly

5. I echo the thoughts about lots of instrumentals so far – my foreign language rule precludes me from joining in. This is an excellent one.

6. Great pick. I love Hank Marvin’s guitar sound. I had heard Burt Weedon’s recording didn’t know the version by The Ventures – the latter is pretty good, though the rendition by The Shadows remains my favorite.

7. Diana, I love the sound of this song and remembered it after a few bars. I’m almost positive it’s been part of a soundtrack for a spaghetti western.

   • Thanks! If it hasn’t been in a spaghetti western, it’s only a matter of time, I’m sure. 😉

   • You’re welcome and I’m sure you’re right 🙂

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