APACHE

Created on 20/05/2004
Latest update on 09/05/2023

Artist: Shadows
Author: Jerry Lordan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1960

They learned it from author Lordan, who wasn't even a guitar player when he wrote it. Cut at Abbey Road; n°1 UK.

Covers:

1960:

Bert Weedon [British guitar player who first recorded this instrumental (May '60) but it's release (on Top Rank) followed the Shadows' version]

1960:

Bud Ashton [on Embassy]

1960:

Jorgen Ingmann [learned it from a Jim Gunner demo (also older than the Shadows version); n°2 US]

1961:

Sonny James [vocal version]

1961:

Al Caiola

1961:

Cousins

1962:

Ventures

1962:

José Guardiola [Spanish vocal version]

1963:

Link Wray

1964:

Jokers [acoustic version]

1964:

Surfaris

1965:

Davie Allan & The Arrows [as Apache 65]

1965:

Norrie Paramor

1970:

Edgar Broughton Band [as Apache Dropout, in which the Shadows hit met Capt. Beefheart's Dropout Boogie]

1973:

Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band [the ultimate breakbeat record (2:20 into the track), discovered by hip hop pioneer Kool Herc in '75 and useful ever since]

1982:

Sugarhill Gang [following the Incredible Bongo Band version]

1982:

Skadows [ska version]

1996:

Jon & The Nightriders [surf version]

1996:

Jimmy Thackery

1998:

Fatboy Slim [following the Incredible Bongo Band version]

2005:

Missy Elliott [sampling Sugarhill Gang's version in We Run This]

2005:

Switch [as A Bit Patchy; dance hit NL]

2006:

Scooter [version based on Switch; dance hit B]

2011:

Jeff Beck

2013:

David Bowie [theme used in How Does The Grass Grow on album The Next Day, crediting Jerry Lordan]

Danish Jorgen Ingmann, who's version dominated the American market, was the same to win the Eurovision Song Contest three years later with Dansevise, along with his wife Grethe.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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