why did the shadows used pseudonyms.???...

[ribiers]

...like for "Shotgun"..."FBI"..and some others......... A french fan...

[StuartD]

HI

I think it had somerthing to do with publishing rights to songs they had written themselves. It stopped when Shadows Music was formed.

Regards

Stuart

[Didier]

...like for "Shotgun"..."FBI"..and some others......... A french fan...

Peter Gormley, the Shadows' manager at this time, served as a figurehead when the Shadows couldn't yet register the tunes they had composed with their own names.
Peter Gormley, l'agent des Shadows à cette époque, a servi de prête-nom lorsque les Shadows ne pouvaient pas encore déposer les mélodies qu'ils avaient composée sous leur propre nom.

Didier

[Peter K]

Hi Didier,

I knew that F.B.I. , We say yeah and Gonzales were written by the Shadows and not by " McGlynn" or Peter Gormley.
But did they really write " Shotgun " themselves, too ? And if so, who wrote it ?

Best regards
Peter K

[Didier]

Hi Didier,

I knew that F.B.I. , We say yeah and Gonzales were written by the Shadows and not by " McGlynn" or Peter Gormley.
But did they really write " Shotgun " themselves, too ? And if so, who wrote it ?

Best regards
Peter K

As far as I know, Shotgun was credited to Jon Allen, but it was a pseudonym for Bruce Hank and Jet (confirmed in Malcolm Campbell's book "A pocket Guide to Shadow Music").

Didier