Greatest Hits (The Shadows album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by The Shadows
Released	1963
Genre	Rock
Length	40:57
Label	Columbia (EMI)
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Greatest Hits is a 1963 compilation album by British instrumental group The Shadows. The album spent 56 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 2.^[2]

Track listing[]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Apache"	Jerry Lordan	3:49
2.	"Man of Mystery"	Michael Carr	2:02
3.	"The Stranger"	Bill Crompton, Stan Jones	2:41
4.	"F.B.I"	Peter Gormley	3:29
5.	"Midnight"	Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch	2:31
6.	"The Frightened City"	Norrie Paramor	2:22
7.	"Kon-Tiki"	Michael Carr	3:14

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"36 24 36"	Jet Harris, Hank Marvin, Tony Meehan, Bruce Welch	1:42
2.	"The Savage"	Norrie Paramor	2:23
3.	"Peace Pipe"	Norrie Paramor	2:13
4.	"Wonderful Land"	Jerry Lordan	2:51
5.	"Stars Fell on Stockton"	Brian Bennett, Jet Harris, Hank Marvin, Tony Meehan, Bruce Welch	2:18
6.	"Guitar Tango"	Georges Liferman, Norman Maine	2:55
7.	"The Boys"	Brian Bennett, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch	2:33
8.	"Dance On!"	Ray Adams, Elaine Murtagh, Valerie Murtagh	3:54

Charts[]

Chart (1966)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart^[2]	2

Release history[]

A remastered version of the album was released on CD by EMI in 2004. The remaster includes mono and stereo versions of every track, as well as a bonus track ("Quatermassters Stores").^[3] In 2019, this album was re-released, this time by Hallmark Music & Entertainment.

References[]

^ Thompson, Dave. "The Shadows' Greatest Hits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Shadows – full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^ Perone, James E. (2009). Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. ABC-CLIO. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-275-99860-8.

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[AllMusic-1] Thompson, Dave. "The Shadows' Greatest Hits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

[OfficialCharts-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Shadows – full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

[Perone2009-3] Perone, James E. (2009). Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. ABC-CLIO. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-275-99860-8.

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