Single:
Apache entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 September 1960 and peaked at #4. The record was #34 on the Top 100 of 1960.
Composer:
Jerry Lordan
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
English songwriter and composer Jerry Lordan came up with Apache in the late 1950s. Lordan was inspired to write the song after watching the 1954 American western film Apache, saying that he “wanted something noble and dramatic, reflecting the courage and savagery of the Indian Apache warrior Massai, played by Burt Lancaster.”
Apache was first recorded by Bert Weedon in early 1960.
Composer Jerry Lordan played the song on ukulele to the Shadows while on tour and, liking the song, the group released their own version which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in mid-1960. The Shadows’ guitarist Hank Marvin developed the song’s distinctive echo and vibrato sound.
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