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JET HARRIS FAN SITE
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BRITISH 45rpm RELEASE DETAILS |
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(Wilke,Valasquez,Skylar)/(Rackep,Ness) (Instrumental/Vocal) Decca 45-F11466 Recorded 29/4/1962 Released 11/5/1962 Musical Director: Charles Blackwell Producer: Jack Good |
This was Jet's first solo single
release since leaving The Shadows. |
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Main Title Theme |
(Bernstein,Fine)/(Vandyke) |
This was Jet's second solo single release. According to the Guinness Book Of British Hits Singles it reached number 12 in the charts. |
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Wilke,Valasquez,Skylar)/ |
In the late
50's and early 60's it was quite often the custom for an e.p (extend
play) to be issued containing the artists first two releases. Usually the A side and B sides of those releases. Jet's first e.p was some what a mystery. It contained his first solo released A side, his second solo released B side and two completely new numbers, one instrumental and one vocal. The e.p was therefore made up of two instrumentals and two vocals. |
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(Lordan)/(Meehan)
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Jet & Tony Meehan's first single as a duo. although Tony did play drums
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Jet's first two solo singles as a session drummer. The single reached number one in the singles charts, replacing Dance On by his former group The Shadows. It earned the duo a Silver Disc for sales of 250,000 copies. |
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Scarlet O'Hara/ |
(Lordan)/(Meehan, Rogers) (Instrumental/Vocal) Decca 45-F11644 Recorded (A Side 15/3/1963 B Side 16/11/1962) Released 19/4/1963 Musical Director: Tony Meehan Producer: Tony Meehan |
This was Jet & Tony Meehan's second release as a duo and it reached number two in the singles charts. Hully Gully was performed by the duo in the 1963 film 'Just For Fun'. |
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(Lordan)/(Meehan, Rogers)/(Lordan)/(Meehan) (Instrumental/Vocal, Instrumental/Vocal) Decca DFE 8528 (Mono) Recorded 15/3/1963, 16/11/1962, 23/11/1962) Released 28/6/1963 Musical Director: Tony Meehan Producer: Tony Meehan |
Back to normality with the Jet & Tony e.p. A's and B Sides of their two hit singles. |
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(Frechette,Hutchinson, Robitaille,Tailleur)/ (Kennedy)/(Jacques)/ (Arr: Denver) (Instrumental/Vocal, Vocal/Vocal) Decca DFE 8520 (Mono) Recorded 5/6/1962/Not Known/ Not Known/ Not Known. Released 12/7/1963 Musical Director: Not Known Producer: Not Known |
I have no reason as to why Jet should be on this release, other than it was on the Decca label, and with Jet & Tony Meehan still riding high at the time of its release, they had this track in the vaults doing nothing. As far as I can tell Jet never appeared on Discs-A-Gogo. |
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(Vandyke, De Mare)/(Meehan) (Instrumental/Instrumental) Decca 45-F11710 Recorded 24/7/1963) Released 30/8/1963 Musical Director: Tony Meehan Producer: Tony Meehan |
Jet & Tony Meehan's third single, According to the
Guinness Book Of British Hits Singles it reached number 3 in the charts.
however some charts at the time placed it higher. Also this was the first release to feature instrumentals on both sides. |
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(Carter, Lewis)/(Farr) (Instrumental/Instrumental) Decca 45-F11841 Recorded 24/1/1964 Released 21/2/1964 Musical Director: Mike Leander Producer: Mike Smith |
This is Jet's third solo release
and again features two instrumental tracks. By 1964 the 'Beat Boom' was well established and instrumentals were not enjoying chart success as in previous years. There is no mention of this disc charting in the Guinness book of British Hit Singles. |
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(Presley)/(Reed, Rae) (Vocal/Vocal) Fontana TF 849 Recorded Unknown Released 14/7/1967 Accompaniment Directed By: Tony Meehan |
This was Jet's fourth solo
single and featured two vocal sides. The 'A' side was a cover of a
Troggs number written by Reg Presley lead singer with The Troggs.
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(Lordan)/(Lordan) (Instrumental/Instrumental) Decca F 12877 Recorded 5/1/1963, 15/3/1963) Released 17/7/1970 Musical Director: Tony Meehan Producer: Tony Meehan |
Reissue of Jet & Tony Meehan's two biggest hits on Decca's 'Demand Performance' series of releases. I suppose really this counts as their fourth release as a duo. |
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Jet Harris & Tony Meehan (e.p) |
(Lordan)/(Lordan)/(Vandyke)/(Bernstein, Fine) (Instrumental/Instrumental, Instrumental/Instrumental) Decca F 13892 (Mono) Recorded 23/11/1962, 15/3/1963, 24/7/1963, 16/12/1962) Released 31/10/1980 Musical Director: Tony Meehan/Tony Meehan/Tony Meehan/Charles Blackwell Producer:Tony Meehan/Tony Meehan/Tony Meehan/Jack Good |
At first glance nothing very special about this 1980's
Decca release. Until that is you play 'The Man With The Golden Arm". The
track used is taken from the 1963 Decca Ace Of Spades album 'Honey Hit
Parade' on which Jet's track is spoken over by Kent Walton introducing
the album. Very strange to use this track when the original still existed in the Decca vaults. Also the title on this release has changed from 'Main Title Theme (from the Man With The Golden Arm)" to "The Man With The Golden Arm (Main Title Theme)". |
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(Roger Lavern)/(Hopwood, Crewe) (Instrumental/Vocal) SRT SRTS 75355. Recorded. Unknown Released 11/10/1975 Producer: Dave Richardson/Robbie Duke |
This was Jet's fifth solo single and was written by Roger Lavern who had been keyboard player with The Tornados and featured on their worldwide hit Telstar in 1962, he had become Jets manager for a while. Again unfortunately the single failed to chart. |
| Some time after the release of SRTS 75355 (listed above) it was release again with the title shortened to just 'Theme' and for some reason the composer of This Sportin' Life was listed as Unknown. The catalogue number remained the same. |
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(Roger Lavern, Jet Harris)/(Roger Lavern (Instrumental/Instrumental) SRT SRTS 77389. Recorded. Unknown Released 24/3/1978 Producer: Dave Richardson/Dave Richardson |
This was Jets sixth solo release and the first to contain a number penned by him, although in conjunction with Roger Lavern. One would assume that this number was recorded at the same session as Theme For A Fallen Idol, as the producer is the same. The flip side gives Theme For A Fallen Idol its third outing on disc. |
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(Lordan)/(Lordan) (Instrumental/Instrumental) London Old Gold OG 9332 Recorded 5/1/1963, 15/3/1963) Released 28/11/1983 Musical Director: Tony Meehan Producer: Tony Meehan |
Another release for Jet and Tony Meehan's two big hits. Again this could count as the duo's fifth release! |
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Why Should I Ask Her
To Stay/ |
(Peter
Rawes)/(Peter Rawes)/(Peter Rawes) (Vocal/Instrumental/Instrumental) Official Records OFFA 5 Recorded. Unknown Released. 17/1/1986 Produced John Eeles Engineer Nick Smith |
Jet makes a guest appearance on
this record playing bowed double bass on Why Should I Ask Her To Stay
and electric bass on Theme From Sharks. Jet does not play on Theme From
Forever. The disc itself is unusual as Why Should I Ask Her To Stay plays at 45rpm while Theme From Sharks and Theme From Forever play at 33rpm. |
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(Lordan)/(Murfin) (Instrumental/Instrumental) Q Records Q 101 Recorded 12/1987 Released 28/11/1988 Producer: Muff Murfin Engineer Colin Owen |
Jets eighth solo single. This was a
new version of Diamonds recorded to mark Jets 30th Anniversary and taken from his 30th Anniversary album. Big Bad Bass From Texas was a brand new number recorded specially for the single release on which Jet plays a 6 string bass guitar. |
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The Return Of
The Rapiers (e.p) |
(Pryce-Jones)/ (Lawes)(Hubert Patterson)/ (Meehan, Rogers) (Instrumental/Instrumental, Vocal/Vocal) Fury Records FEP 3018 Recorded. Unknown Released 1991 |
The Rapiers were formed in October 1983 and first became associated with Jet around 1987, an association that continues today |