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unusual facts about The Shadows' Madame


The Shadows' Madame

The third and last outside credit comes from Giuseppe Verdi; "Spell" incorporates the music from act II/scene XV of Verdi's "La Traviata".


Binson

After using Meazzi Echomatic machines successfully to establish his signature sound, Hank Marvin of The Shadows began using Binson echoes.

Dezo Hoffmann

He earned international acclaim in the 1960s, shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Kinks, The Shadows, Tom Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Omar Sharif and Pink Floyd.

Guitar Connection

"Guitar Connection Volume 2" was released in March 2007, with some famous guest stars, and includes a duet with The Shadows' guitarist Hank Marvin on the famous jazzy standard "Nivram".

Harsh Reality

Mark Griffiths has worked with Matthews Southern Comfort, Jonathan Kelly, Al Stewart, David Essex, The Everly Brothers, and Cliff Richard & The Shadows.

Martin Ljung

He also worked with Hasse Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, both in revues such as Spader, Madame! and Glaset i Örat (The Glass in the Ear) and movies such as Äppelkriget.

Nico Carstens

His most famous song "Zambezi" became a world hit and was recorded by artists such as Eddie Calvert, Acker Bilk, Bert Kaempfert, The Shadows, James Last, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer and Johnny Dankworth.

Peter Gormley

Peter Gormley (c. 1920 – 8 May 1998) was an Australian born artist manager who guided the early careers of many recording artists, including Frank Ifield, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Marvin Welch & Farrar, Labi Siffre and Olivia Newton-John.

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

The music for "Akele Hain To Kya Gum Hai" is copied from the instrumental number "Return to the Alamo" by the band The Shadows.

Rautalanka

Worldwide, the best known representative of this style is the British band The Shadows, who have visited Finland several times, most recently in 2005.

Richard Tauber

He also provided a 'voice-over', singing the title song in the otherwise silent film I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929), starring Marlene Dietrich and Harry Liedtke.

Singing This Song

The song was performed tenth on the night (following the United Kingdom's The Shadows with "Let Me Be the One" and preceding Belgium's Ann Christy with "Gelukkig zijn").

Spader, Madame!

All music in the show were based on music already written by Franz Schubert with new lyrics written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson.

A gang of people from the upper classes has withdrawn to a place in the country were they plan to live for a couple of days, listening to Schubert music and simply enjoy life.

Steve Clark

From an early age he showed an interest in music — at the age of six, his mother took him to a concert to see The Shadows perform.

The Golden Section

A progression from the sound of The Garden (1981), Foxx called The Golden Section "a roots check: Beatles, Church music, Psychedelia, The Shadows, The Floyd, The Velvets, Roy Orbison, Kraftwerk, and cheap pre-electro Europop".

We Run This

Released as both the album's third single in the United States and the lead single from her 2006 compilation Respect M.E., it samples elements from the The Sugarhill Gang version of The Shadows' song "Apache".


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