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

PostPosted: 06 Jan 2010, 21:24
by ribiers
...like for "Shotgun"..."FBI"..and some others......... A french fan...

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

PostPosted: 07 Jan 2010, 10:22
by 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

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

PostPosted: 07 Jan 2010, 12:27
by Didier
ribiers wrote:...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

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

PostPosted: 07 Jan 2010, 16:29
by 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

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

PostPosted: 07 Jan 2010, 18:31
by Didier
Peter K wrote: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