For the 'Merry Month of May' I have some 60 year old childhood memories and some sixties psychedelia from 1967. 

Everything will be reveal by the end of the month but we start today with a single released on 1st May 1964 by The Shadows. Written by all the band members ‘The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt’ was reviewed by Record Mirror as "completely different from all the Shads' previous ones. Good beat and plenty of blues' feeling". 

It was still an instrumental track and this vintage video has the group showing off their British made Burns electric guitars. They even made a model called the 'Marvin' (see ad in this article here). 

'Flingel Bunt’ had risen to No.7 in the UK hit parade by the end of May - dig the ‘go go’ dancers > 

More Go Go dancers? Dance On: right here  

Today's track is also for Duane Eddy who passed away this week aged 86 and was a big influence on many 60s guitarists including Hank Marvin.

Eddy is quoted as saying "One of my biggest contributions to the music industry is not singing"  RIP