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You'd all remember the Shadows.I remember "Walk don't run" but not the band .It is actually played a lot as background music.I was about 9 or 10 I guess when the Shadows came around.


https://youtu.be/EzgbcyfJgfQ




Actually Paul, I doubt that many of my fellow Yanks would remember The Shadows, as first they were the backing band for Cliff Richard and who himself for the most part never made it that big here in the States, but who of course was very popular in the rest of the English speaking world and just before The Beatles would change Pop music forever.

And secondly, and another reason I stated my doubts about my fellow Yanks remembering The Shadows was that even this song "Apache" that you linked this YouTube video of and one of their biggest hits, would be recorded by Danish jazz guitarist Jorgen Ingmann a year after The Shadows recorded it, and IT would be the version that would climb the American Pop Charts in 1961 and hit #2 that year, and the one I remember hearing a lot on the radio as a 9 year old kid in California, and not the version The Shadows recorded.

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)