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:
Bert Weedon [British guitar player who first recorded this instrumental (May '60) but it's release (on Top Rank) followed the Shadows' version]
Bud Ashton [on Embassy]
Jorgen Ingmann [learned it from a Jim Gunner demo (also older than the Shadows version); n°2 US]
Sonny James [vocal version]
José Guardiola [Spanish vocal version]
Jokers [acoustic version]
Davie Allan & The Arrows [as Apache 65]
Edgar Broughton Band [as Apache Dropout, in which the Shadows hit met Capt. Beefheart's Dropout Boogie]
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]
Sugarhill Gang [following the Incredible Bongo Band version]
Skadows [ska version]
Jon & The Nightriders [surf version]
Fatboy Slim [following the Incredible Bongo Band version]
Missy Elliott [sampling Sugarhill Gang's version in We Run This]
Switch [as A Bit Patchy; dance hit NL]
Scooter [version based on Switch; dance hit B]
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.
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)