kc
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Post by kc on Dec 26, 2017 18:45:34 GMT -5
Do you like Cry For A Shadow? I do and enjoy it more than any of those other pre-fame songs. I’m thinking of Ain’t She Sweet and How Do You Do It, etc. I know it has a dated sound, but I think it’s a pity they never managed to provide words for it. I suspect it could have been a good song, rather than just an obscure instrumental.
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Post by debjorgo on Dec 27, 2017 0:15:39 GMT -5
I always liked it. A surf guitar song like was big at the time. I don't hear the dated sound. It is a guitar heavy song like what I listen to now.
Cayenne and Catswalk are pretty good, in that same vein.
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Post by sayne on Dec 27, 2017 0:29:24 GMT -5
I always liked it. A surf guitar song like was big at the time. I don't hear the dated sound. It is a guitar heavy song like what I listen to now. Cayenne and Catswalk are pretty good, in that same vein. You are so right about it being a surf song (a really good surf song). It would have worked really well with The Endless Summer.
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Post by stavros on Dec 27, 2017 19:06:04 GMT -5
I can't say I love it. But you can't ignore it's historical significance. I always assumed it was derived from the " The Shadows" music. A band who were actually huge in the UK in the early 1960s as a flood of imported rock'n roll from America was being embraced. George has been quoted: The only Harrison/Lennon composition in the Beatles canon. It's OK but that's all in my opinion.
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Post by RockoRoll on Dec 27, 2017 19:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 28, 2017 10:12:30 GMT -5
I love "Cry For A Shadow" as is, a rocking instrumental. I also love "Ain't She Sweet" because John sings lead vocal. That is all I need from those sessions. "My Bonnie" is okay I guess.
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Post by coachbk on Dec 28, 2017 21:21:28 GMT -5
I like "Cry For A Shadow". Very catchy guitar. This past summer I picked up a bunch of old 45's at the dump and one of them was Tony Sheridan & the Beatles with "Why" backed with "Cry For A Shadow". Amazingly the single was in pretty good shape.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 29, 2017 12:23:25 GMT -5
I like "Cry For A Shadow". Very catchy guitar. This past summer I picked up a bunch of old 45's at the dump and one of them was Tony Sheridan & the Beatles with "Why" backed with "Cry For A Shadow". Amazingly the single was in pretty good shape. Wow, I wonder if that is from the very early 1960's or a later re-issue?
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Post by coachbk on Dec 29, 2017 22:10:27 GMT -5
My guess is it is from 1964.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Dec 31, 2017 12:38:08 GMT -5
Am I the only one who hears a siren in this song? When I listened to it in the car, I had to turn the sound down as I thought a police car or fire truck was behind me!
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kc
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Post by kc on Jan 5, 2018 20:09:09 GMT -5
I was looking through the book from my copy of the Beatles Bop – Hamburg Days box set today. I never knew that Cry For A Shadow first appeared on a French Tony Sheridan EP, Mister Twist, in April 1962. I would have thought it featured on some German release first, but no.
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