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iefje wrote:He surely is absent from the mix, because it is Brian Locking who plays bass guitar on this track.

Ah, my error. Bruce's book says that John Rostill joined 'at Christmas 1963' and Theme was recorded 1st November 1963.

Uncle Fiesta - thanks, interesting article.

The Locking-Rostill handover took place over most of November 1963 and there are studio photos with Licorice playing and John looking in through the window. Later in the month John did some recording but Brian did another TV show.
I don’t know the fine details but I suspect Brian did the work he’d already agreed to before he decided to leave and John did everything put in the diary after that.

Whoever balanced the sessions often kept the Locking bass low in the mix. I don’t know why. Certainly not Brian’s fault. Those of us who’ve seen him play know how energetically he handles the instrument!

The replacement of Licorice by John was announced in November and he even did a short sub-interview with the NME (about his reasons) within an article about a Shadows trip to France. The same article mentioned the "new Burns guitar".

John was seen in music press photos but wasn't seen "performing" until the afternoon of Christmas Day that year (miming to Geronimo on ITV, if I recall correctly).

Iain Purdon wrote:The Locking-Rostill handover took place over most of November 1963 and there are studio photos with Licorice playing and John looking in through the window. Later in the month John did some recording but Brian did another TV show.
I don’t know the fine details but I suspect Brian did the work he’d already agreed to before he decided to leave and John did everything put in the diary after that.

Whoever balanced the sessions often kept the Locking bass low in the mix. I don’t know why. Certainly not Brian’s fault. Those of us who’ve seen him play know how energetically he handles the instrument!

I'm pretty sure John played on an early version of Razzmatazz in November 1963 that appeared on the Abbey Road CD. This was his first ever recording.
Oh, and EMI didn't get 8 track till summer 1968 at the insistence of the Beatles (or so i'm led to believe!)

Fenderman wrote:I'm pretty sure John played on an early version of Razzmatazz in November 1963 that appeared on the Abbey Road CD. This was his first ever recording.

That particular version was recorded on November 27th, 1963. It wasn't the first recording with The Shadows he played on, because four days earlier on the 23rd he played on both sides of the Cliff Richard & The Shadows single "I'm The Lonely One"/"Watch What You Do With My Baby". Incidentally, Bruce was absent during this period, so Hank also played the rhythm guitar parts.

JimN wrote:The replacement of Licorice by John was announced in November and he even did a short sub-interview with the NME (about his reasons) within an article about a Shadows trip to France. The same article mentioned the "new Burns guitar".

John was seen in music press photos but wasn't seen "performing" until the afternoon of Christmas Day that year (miming to Geronimo on ITV, if I recall correctly).

The show on Christmas Day was the Jack Parnell show Licorice was down to do the show but John Rostill fitted into The Shadows so quickly that he did it instead ,as said The Shadows mimed Geronimo and Cliff did Lucky Lips it was pre- recorded before they left to The Canary Islands .

iefje wrote:

Fenderman wrote:I'm pretty sure John played on an early version of Razzmatazz in November 1963 that appeared on the Abbey Road CD. This was his first ever recording.

That particular version was recorded on November 27th, 1963. It wasn't the first recording with The Shadows he played on, because four days earlier on the 23rd he played on both sides of the Cliff Richard & The Shadows single "I'm The Lonely One"/"Watch What You Do With My Baby". Incidentally, Bruce was absent during this period, so Hank also played the rhythm guitar parts.

Ahh ok, thanks

Isn't it on a later re-recording. If you listen carefully the playbacks are different to the original.

https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Shadows- ... se/2968315

Re-recording from 1989.

Regards
Hans

https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Shadows- ... se/2968315

Re-recording from 1989.

Regards
Hans

abstamaria wrote:Marlene Dietrich’s version began with a single note-

https://youtu.be/Q1GdfqT3Uq0

Didn't even know there was a vocal version. Learn something new everyday. Thanks