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Single:
Sacha entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 September 1969 and peaked at #15. The song was #86 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Album:
The song is on Hank Marvin which entered the Australian albums chart* on 23 February 1970 and peaked at #11.
Songwriters:
Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Jerry Lordan
Producer:
Norrie Paramor
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS TRACKS BELOW: 2 songs by The Shadows, featuring Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch
Wikipedia:
16-year-old Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin) met Cliff Richard’s manager, Johnny Foster, who was looking for a guitarist for Cliff’s UK tour. That led to him becoming part of the Shadows, which often worked as Cliff’s backing band.
Since 1986, Marvin has lived in Perth, Western Australia where he performs and runs a recording studio.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Marvin
theartsdesk.com:
Jerry Lordan wrote Apache and other Shadows hits. Hank said:
“[Lordan] came to me and said, “We’ve written this thing you should record, called Sacha.” I said, “Why’s it called that?” “Because we started writing it as a song for Sacha Distel but it’d be a great instrumental.” You couldn’t get airplay in the UK for an instrumental in the late Sixties, unless it was from a film, but for some reason it took off in Australia and became the biggest record of 1969.”
Read more: theartsdesk.com/new-music/theartsdesk-qa-guitarist-hank-marvin
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BONUS TRACKS
Hank B Marvin played in The Shadows with Bruce Welch. The Rise and Fall of Fingel Blunt and Atlantis were 2 of 12 Top 10 Shadows hits in Australia.
BBC program: The Shadows at Sixty
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