A Pipe and a Keyboard

Many years ago, before a lot of you were born, there was a group by the name of The Shadows.

They were the backing group for Cliff Richard and also had some considerable success as an electric instrumental group.

In 1970, the group split, and two of its founder members – Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch – decided to form a new group concentrating more on vocal harmony and acoustic instruments.  They were joined by Australian John Farrar, and the group launched themselves as Marvin Welch and Farrar.

In 1971, they produced two LPs, however they sank almost without trace.

Lately I have started digitizing my collection of records, and came across both the above records

One of my favourite tracks -

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Frankly, I am baffled as to why they never caught on.

Filed under: General on March 25th, 2009