F.B.I. (instrumental)

"F.B.I." is an instrumental rock tune recorded by the British group The Shadows, written by Peter Gormley. It was released by EMI as a single in February 1961 on the Columbia label with "Midnight" (Marvin, Welch) as the B-side. It spent 19 weeks in the UK Top 40 pop chart reaching #6 on two separate occasions in mid-February and mid-March 1961.

It was released in the USA in July 1961 on the Atlantic records label with "The Frightened City" (Paramor) as the B-side.

Personnel

• Hank Marvin – lead guitar
• Bruce Welch – rhythm guitar
• Jet Harris – bass guitar
• Tony Meehan – percussion

Covers

• A cover version of F.B.I. with "Wheels" as the B-side (Cat. 45-WB 436) was released in 1963 on the UK Embassy Records budget record label - sold exclusively in Woolworths stores. It was credited to "Bud Ashton" (a generic pseudonym used to represent whatever session musician had actually made the recording).
• Queen guitarist Brian May covered "F.B.I." on the 1996 tribute album Twang! - A Tribute to Hank Marvin & The Shadows, and it later appeared as the b-side of his 1998 single "Why Don't We Try Again".
• Experimental rock group Massacre recorded a cover of "F.B.I." in 1981, which was released on their 2005 reissue of Killing Time.
• Ian Hunter and his band, featuring guitarist Mick Ronson, covered "F.B.I." on the double live disc Welcome to the Club (Ian Hunter album).

References

Jethro Tull's "From a Deadbeat To an Old Greaser," a cut from the album "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die," contains the line "When bombs were banned every Sunday and the Shadows did F.B.I.".

External links

• http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=2807