What was the original name of Cliff Richard's backing group The Shadows before they realised there was already an American group with the same name?
"Richard. Formed as a backing band for Cliff Richard under the name The Drifters, the original members were founder Ken Pavey (born 1932), Terry Smart on drums (1942), Norman Mitham on guitar (1941), Ian Samwell on guitar and Harry Webb (before he became Cliff Richard) on guitar and vocals. They had no bass player. Samwell wrote the first hit, ""Move It"", often mistakenly attributed to ""Cliff Richard and the Shadows"". Initially, Norrie Paramor wanted to record using only studio musicians but after persuasion he allowed Smart and Samwell to play as well. Two session players, guitarist Ernie Shear and bassist"
"Hank Marvin, Jet Harris, Bruce Welch, and Tony Meehan rose to fame as The Shadows, the backing act of Cliff Richard. They went on to achieve individual success with ""Apache"" and in 1961 released their first EP consisting of ""four new offerings"". None of the tracks were released as singles in the UK. All the tracks featured on the 1961 South African album ""Rockin' Guitars"", and the 1963 French album ""Hurrah! For The Shadows"" . However, the tracks did not feature on a UK album until ""Mustang"" was released under the Music for Pleasure label in 1971. They also all"
"fourth most successful act in the UK singles chart, behind Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Cliff Richard. The Shadows and Cliff Richard & the Shadows each have had four No. 1 selling EPs. The Shadows were formed from members of late 1950s UK skiffle groups: Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, both inspired by US pop music, came from the Newcastle-based Railroaders (and also the Five Chesternuts on Columbia Records); and Jet Harris and Tony Meehan from London, both inspired by UK jazz–skiffle music, came from the Vipers Skiffle Group (on Parlophone Records). Originally the backing band for Cliff Richard, ""The"
"combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (""Living Doll"" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single"
"Hank Marvin Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows, a group which primarily performed instrumentals and was the backing band for Cliff Richard and subsequently for Marvin, Welch & Farrar. Many leading British and Canadian rock guitarists cite Marvin as an influence. Hank Marvin was born Brian Robson Rankin in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As a child, he played banjo and piano. After hearing Buddy Holly, he decided to learn the guitar. He chose his stage name while launching"
"Shadows, the band learned in spring 1965 of an existing British group, the Shadows. Whiz Winters, a friend who worked for their manager, Paul Sampson, in his record shop, came up with the name ""The Shadows of Knight"" to tie into the British Invasion in music of that time, and because all four of the band members attended Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, whose sports team had the name the ""Knights"". They would release three albums in their first five years of existence. Founding members included Warren Rogers (lead guitar), Roger Spielmann (rhythm and lead guitar/vocals) Norm Gotsch"
"drums. Their range covers pop, rock, surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence. The core members since 1958 have been Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. Along with the Fender guitar, another cornerstone of the Shadows sound was the Vox amplifier. The Shadows, with Cliff Richard, dominated British popular music in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the years before the Beatles. The Shadows' number one hits included ""Apache"", ""Kon-Tiki"", ""Wonderful Land"", ""Foot Tapper"" and ""Dance On!"". Although they lost ground in the late '60s, the band had a second success from the late '70s. The Shadows are the"
"London in 1958 for the final of a talent competition. Although they did not win, they joined with members of other entrant bands and formed the Five Chesternuts with Pete Chester (born 1942), son of comedian Charlie Chester on drums. On moving to London, Bruce and Hank Marvin briefly operated as the Geordie Boys before enlisting in an outfit called the Drifters. In September 1958 Welch and Marvin joined the Drifters, later to become the Shadows, as Cliff Richard's backing band. As well as success with the Shadows, Welch also acted as producer for (among others) Cliff Richard and songwriter"
"Maida Vale. Meehan died at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. ""As the drummer with the Shadows, Tony Meehan helped to lay the foundations for British rock’n’roll, both backing Cliff Richard and on a long string of instrumental hits recorded under the group's own name. John Lennon once claimed that before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music. As the first backing band to emerge as stars in their own right, they were early trailblazers for the beat-group boom that eclipsed them."" – Shadows drummer who became an A&R man for Decca – ""The"
"double bass to play in a jazz group and later graduated to a professionally made double bass. In 1958, while playing jazz with drummer Tony Crombie and his group the Rockets, Crombie got a Framus bass guitar for Harris, making him one of the first British exponents of the instrument. He played in several groups including the Vipers Skiffle Group and the Most Brothers before, in 1959, joining Cliff Richard's backing group, the Drifters, who later changed their name to The Shadows at Harris's suggestion. In 1959, after the neck of his Framus was terminally damaged in a dressing room"
"Webb became ""Cliff Richard"", Brian Rankin became ""Hank B. Marvin"", Terence Harris became ""Jet Harris"" and Bruce Cripps became ""Bruce Welch"". Subsequently, the names Cliff Richard and Hank Brian Marvin were confirmed by deed poll. The Shadows have been cited as a major influence on some American guitarists and many British, Australian, Canadian and continental European guitarists, including Brian May, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, David Gilmour and Tony Iommi A tribute album, ""Twang! A Tribute to Hank Marvin & the Shadows"" (Capitol 33928), in October 1996 featured Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi, Peter Green, Randy Bachman, Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, Peter"
"the group Jet Harris and Tony Meehan to perform 'Move It' with him and his band. On 30 June 1990, Cliff and the Shadows performed to an estimated 120,000 people at Britain's Knebworth Park as part of an all-star concert line-up that also included Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Elton John and Tears for Fears. The concert in aid of charity was televised around the world and helped to raise $10.5 million for disabled children and young musicians. Brian Bennett resigned from the group just before the group were to embark on what would be their final tour for 14 years"
"number 6), ""The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"" (1963, US number 3; UK number 3) and ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" (1967, US number 3). On the recording of ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" Bobby Vee and The Strangers are credited. However, that was merely the record label giving a name to the studio musicians working that day. Bobby's original band, The Shadows, backed him on the road, but changed their name to The Strangers upon learning of the UK band The Shadows who backed Cliff Richard. They had not backed him since 1963. He also recorded, in"
"Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s"
"hits, especially from 1961 to 1965. Canadian guitarists Randy Bachman and Neil Young credit Marvin as influential, Young penning the song ""From Hank to Hendrix"" on his Harvest Moon album in partial tribute. Marvin also played guitar on the following tracks of library music recorded for Bruton Music: (V) – Vocal Hank Marvin Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist for the Shadows, a group which primarily performed instrumentals and was the backing band for Cliff Richard and subsequently for Marvin, Welch"
"the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, ""High Class Baby"" and ""Livin' Lovin' Doll"", were followed by ""Mean Streak"", which carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion, and Lionel Bart's ""Living Doll"". It was on ""Living Doll"" that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. It was his fifth record and became his first No. 1 single. By that time, the group's line-up had changed with the arrival of Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. The group was obliged to change its name to ""The Shadows"" after legal complications with"
"Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows Reunited is a 2009 studio album by British pop singer Cliff Richard and his original backing band The Shadows. The album celebrates the 50th anniversary of Cliff's first recordings and performances with The Shadows, and is their first studio collaboration for forty years. It features re-recordings (not remasters) of their classic hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and three songs from the Rock and roll era not previously recorded by them, C'mon Everybody, Sea Cruise, and the album's only single Singing the Blues. It is Cliff Richard's 32nd studio album and"
"This top ten album consisted entirely of cover songs. The album spent 16 weeks on chart peaking at number 6. 1988 the Shadows took a year off with none or very little public or TV appearances, no album and no tour. In June 1989 the Shadows once more reunited with Cliff to celebrate 30 years in show business where the singer filled London's Wembley Stadium for two nights with a spectacular titled ""The Event"" in front of a combined audience of 144,000 people. As a special surprise for the fans Cliff invited onto the stage original and founding members of"
"Cliff (album) Cliff is the debut album by British singer Cliff Richard and his band the Drifters (later known as the Shadows). The album is a live-in-the-studio recording of their early rock and roll in front of an invited audience of several hundred fans. It was recorded over two nights during February 1959 in Studio 2 at EMI Recording Studios (later known as Abbey Road Studios) with Norrie Paramor as producer. The album contains renderings of Richard's hit single ""Move It"", both tracks of the yet to be released Drifters' instrumental single ""Jet Black"" and ""Driftin'"" and covers of rock"
"France, West Germany, Japan, and the United States. There have been many additional compilation albums and singles released outside the UK that are too numerous to include; however, some of the more successful or notable singles released outside the UK have been included in the Singles section. It is claimed Cliff Richard's worldwide sales are 260 million, which makes him the second highest selling British male solo artist of all time (worldwide), after Elton John. Richard, together with his backing band The Shadows, were particularly dominant in the UK from 1959 to 1963 during the pre-Beatles era. Richard's sales of"
"'60s music scene, ""Pop Go The Sixties"", performing ""Apache"" and backing Richard on ""Bachelor Boy"", broadcast across Europe and BBC1, on 31 December 1969. This was followed by Marvin and a reconstituted Shadows becoming resident guests on Richard's debut TV series for the BBC, ""It's Cliff Richard!"" The group were chosen by BBC Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton to perform the Song for Europe in the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. The Shadows recorded six options, seen each week on a weekly television show ""It's Lulu"", on BBC1 and hosted by Lulu, a former Eurovision winner. The group taped all"
"Welch in London. Three months after the phone call from Welch, Farrar and Carroll were in London and Marvin, Welch and Farrar had begun rehearsing. Welch related ""Originally, we planned just to record. But the enormity of John's move across the world and the good reception our album received changed that"". A 13-week Cliff Richard BBC TV series began in January 1971, and Marvin, Welch and Farrar appeared in five of the shows. It was also announced that the new group would be participating in Richard's European tour, scheduled for later that year. They would be billed as 'The Shadows"
"Richard reached number 2 in the charts with ""Move It"". British impresario Larry Parnes fashioned young singers to the new trend, giving them corny names such as Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Vince Eager. At the same time, TV shows such as ""Six-Five Special"" and ""Oh Boy!"", both produced by Jack Good, promoted the careers of British rock and rollers like Marty Wilde and Adam Faith. Cliff Richard and his backing band The Drifters, who quickly changed their name to The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era. Other leading acts included"
"were recorded in Spanish for the Mexican group, and were released in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking territories of the world. He also worked as a record producer with Sounds Incorporated, Georgie Fame, John Mayall and the mod band The Small Faces, co-writing their 1965 hit single ""Whatcha Gonna Do About It"". In 1958, Samwell heard Harry Webb performing at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho. This led to him joining Webb's group as a guitarist. Shortly afterwards, the group was renamed ""Cliff Richard and The Drifters"" who later became ""Cliff Richard and The Shadows"". They signed a recording contract"
"Me and My Shadows Me and My Shadows is the second studio album by singer Cliff Richard and third album overall. Recorded with The Shadows and produced by Norrie Paramor, it was released through Columbia Records in October 1960 and reached No. 2 in the UK album chart. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. No singles were to be officially released in the UK from the album. A pairing of album tracks ""Gee Whiz It's You"" and ""I Cannot Find a True Love"" was pressed as an export single intended for continental Europe but high demand in the"
"Paramor Orchestra. This album was then re-marketed on the EP format into 3 EPs in mono only, Me and My Shadows no.1, Me and My Shadows no.2 and Me and My Shadows no.3. Me and My Shadows Me and My Shadows is the second studio album by singer Cliff Richard and third album overall. Recorded with The Shadows and produced by Norrie Paramor, it was released through Columbia Records in October 1960 and reached No. 2 in the UK album chart. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. No singles were to be officially released in the UK from"
"The Final Reunion Tour (Cliff Richard and The Shadows) The Final Reunion Tour was Cliff Richard and The Shadows' last worldwide tour together. The 2009-10 arena tour included shows in UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The tour marked 50 years since they first played together and was the first time they had played together in over 20 years. The tour grossed more than $60m. To celebrate Cliff Richard and The Shadows 50th Anniversary since they first started. Both acts reunited for the very last time to perform 55 concerts in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand"
"replaced by John Gibson early on. The band changed their name to The Shadows, and eventually settled on The Sandells, a portmanteu of ""Sand"" and ""ells"", a popular ending for groups at the time. They released their first album, ""Scrambler!"", in early 1964. They partnered with World Pacific Records for the release, which allowed them to come in contact with Bruce Brown, who was then just beginning editing work on his next documentary project, ""The Endless Summer"". Brawner and the Georis brothers met with Brown, hoping to sell him one of their songs for use on Brown's new film. Brown,"
"was a play on the 1960s British slang expression ""mod"", which meant modern. Bill Durling went off to college in Storm Lake, Iowa was replaced by Timmy Coniglio on rhythm guitar and brass, Craig Baumgard was replaced by Phil Weinberg on drums. Later, Denny Horan replaced Weinberg and Bill Winter was replaced by Bill Sunter. It was Shadows frontman/vocalist Jimy Sohns who first discovered and championed The Mauds in 1966. Sohns helped get them find gigs and was instrumental in their signing with Dunwich Records distributed by Mercury Records, where in 1967 they gained fame with their debut single, a"
"70th album release overall. It is also The Shadows' 73rd album release overall and features Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett. The limited edition 2-CD set also includes: Produced & Arranged By Warren & Brian Bennett Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows Reunited is a 2009 studio album by British pop singer Cliff Richard and his original backing band The Shadows. The album celebrates the 50th anniversary of Cliff's first recordings and performances with The Shadows, and is their first studio collaboration for forty years. It features re-recordings (not remasters) of their classic hits from the late 1950s"
"singles sold enough for Fontana to grant them an album release in 1961 followed by a second the next year. The band in total released four singles and one EP with Dave Sampson on Columbia Records and five singles (one uncredited) plus two albums on Fontana between 1960 and 1964. The Dutch rock band Golden Earring was named after their single ""Golden Earrings"". The band also appeared behind Cliff Richard (a contemporary from Cheshunt) as The Shadows, when the latter were unavailable due to a car accident, including an appearance on the ""Sunday Night at the London Palladium"" TV show"
"Welch and Farrar, and latterly by Marvin and Farrar, resulted in demands for 'old' Shadows numbers such as ""FBI"" and ""Apache"" etc. So in 1973, Marvin and Welch bowed to the inevitable and announced that the Shadows would come together once or twice a year for recording purposes only. Marvin and Farrar would still be working together, and would join with Welch and Bennett as the Shadows. The first LP by the new line-up was released in November 1973 as ""Rockin' with Curly Leads"". Almost all the tracks recorded by Marvin, Welch & Farrar were written by its core members,"
"has four main members, two brothers, their cousin, and a long-time family friend, that have been playing together for a number of years, prior to officially becoming the band known as Drentch. The beginnings of Drentch were already set in motion as eventual members Mark, Graden and Derek Steinbrenner and friend Darcy Anhorn typically played for the worship services at their hometown church in north Edmonton, where the Steinbrenner brothers' father is a pastor. They first officially formed the band in 2000. However, the name of the band was initially quite different, being Crimson Shadow. However this name did not"