SHADS Ads!!!

[drakula63]

WOW!!! What a brilliant start to the week! One of my friends just found THESE online and drew them to my attention...

THE SHADOWS 20 GOLDEN GREATS - 1977
http://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/reco ... 7bcd0c1190

THE SHADOWS STRING OF HITS - 1979-1980.
http://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/reco ... aa464004d3

I hadn't seen either of these since they were on at the time! Such memories! ENJOY!!!

[JimTidmarsh]

Only £3.35 !!!

[drakula63]

Only £3.35 !!!

A bargain! I'd have happily paid 20 quid for it!

[iefje]

Hi Chris, that's a very nice find! I have seen fragments of the "20 Golden Greats" advertisement, but never in its entirety. The "String Of Hits" one is completely new to me.

[MikeAB]

The cricket bat ad was inspired and did so much for them. Used a tennis racquet with 11's myself though.

Does anyone recall Hank being on a Radio 4 talk in morning programme just before his first solo tour? He and Ben played Eleanor Rigby at the end I think. There was a very clever poem read out by someone which parodied the cricket bat ad in a somewhat risque way - very, very funny. Anyone have a copy of that?

Mike

[John Brown]

I have 3 copies of string of hits on vinyl but £ 60 would be extortionate, maybe if 2 members on here would like 2 free only pay postage please let me know, unfortunately for you but not for me I will be away for about 3cweeks on holiday

[Moderne]

Only £3.35 !!!

...and at the time it cost about £2-£2.50 to see them live. After 40 years of 'progress', a new CD costs £5-10 and you'd pay £60-£120+ to see an artist of the Shads' stature!

[JimN]

Only £3.35 !!!

...and at the time it cost about £2-£2.50 to see them live. After 40 years of 'progress', a new CD costs £5-10 and you'd pay £60-£120+ to see an artist of the Shads' stature!

I remember being shocked by the price of admission to see The Carpenters at the Liverpool Empire in early 1974: £2.50 a head, which was the equivalent - then - of the price of about five gallons of petrol. Today, that would be about £31. I'd been brought up on 7s/6d (37.5p) tickets to see package shows at the Empire. And my ticket to see Cliff Richard and the Welch-less Shadows in 1969 had been about 12s/6d (62.5p).

[iefje]

And my ticket to see Cliff Richard and the Welch-less Shadows in 1969 had been about 12s/6d (62.5p).

What was the show like in 1969? Did it sound just like the concert from October 12th, 1969 in Tokyo?

[MikeAB]

And was this the tour when Hank was ill and missing at the Rainbow/Astoria show?