1963 The Shadows: Foot Tapper

Over the previous months I've noticed a definite split in quality between the tunes The Shadows had written for them and those they wrote themselves; 'Foot Tapper' is a Hank Marvin/Bruce Welch composition that shoots its bolt early then recycles endlessly to the point that the title almost reviews the tune - a foot tapping melody is literally all there is to it. As a tune it's a harmless diversion, but it comes flat packed and brittle, lacking a third dimension of depth to fire the imagination the way their best work does; 'Foot Tapper' comes and goes and I feel no different from having heard it than before the needle hit the groove.