Greatest Hits (The Shadows album)

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.^[3]

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by The Shadows
Released	1963
Recorded	1960–1962
Genre	Rock
Length	40:57
Label	Columbia (EMI)
The Shadows chronology
Out of the Shadows (1962) Greatest Hits (1963) Dance with The Shadows (1964)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
New Record Mirror	[2]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Apache"	Jerry Lordan	2:57
2.	"Man of Mystery"	Michael Carr	2:02
3.	"The Stranger"	Bill Crompton, Stan Jones	2:45
4.	"F.B.I"	Peter Gormley	2:24
5.	"Midnight"	Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch	2:33
6.	"The Frightened City"	Norrie Paramor	2:24
7.	"Kon-Tiki"	Michael Carr	1:57

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"36 24 36"	Jet Harris, Hank Marvin, Tony Meehan, Bruce Welch	1:45
2.	"The Savage"	Norrie Paramor	2:25
3.	"Peace Pipe"	Norrie Paramor	2:13
4.	"Wonderful Land"	Jerry Lordan	2:06
5.	"Stars Fell on Stockton"	Brian Bennett, Jet Harris, Hank Marvin, Tony Meehan, Bruce Welch	2:18
6.	"Guitar Tango"	Georges Liferman, Norman Maine	3:01
7.	"The Boys"	Brian Bennett, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch	2:33
8.	"Dance On!"	Ray Adams, Elaine Murtagh, Valerie Murtagh	2:25

Charts

Chart (1966)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart[3]	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").^[4] In 2019, this album was re-released, this time by Hallmark Music & Entertainment.

References

1. Thompson, Dave. "The Shadows' Greatest Hits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
2. Watson, Jimmy (13 July 1963). "The Shadows: The Shadows' Greatest Hits" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
3. "Shadows – full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
4. Perone, James E. (2009). Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. ABC-CLIO. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-275-99860-8.