What motorbike provided the sound effects on "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-La's?

Answer 1

Strangely enough I remember in a trivia quiz once that the answer given was that it was a "famous" drag car that the sound actually came from.

Answer 2

Marguerite Marge Ganser

Answer 3

Sounded like a Triumph Tiger Cub.

Answer 4

strange you're able to ask...I stayed on the Shangri la lodge on Friday evening. The spa bath interior the room, while teamed with a pitcher of champers would desire to especially lots be my theory of utopia.

Answer 5

Triumph Bonneville.

Answer 6

It can only have been a Harley or an Indian, I'm thinking Harley.

Answer 7

sounds like a harley to me. only they make that racket of cheap american metal being hammered, rubbish workmanship which passes for a bike apparently.

Answer 8

late 50's Harley Davidson pan head, any biker would know that sound

Answer 9

The Shangri-Las were an American pop music girl group of the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1966 they charted with a string of unusually convincing and heartbreaking teen melodramas that remain unequalled in pop.

The group were formed at Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, New York as the Bon Bons in 1963. They consisted of two sets of sisters: Mary (lead singer) and Elizabeth "Liz/Betty" Weiss, and identical twins Marguerite "Marge" and Mary Ann Ganser. More often than not the girls appeared as a trio despite there being four singers.

In April of 1964, since the girls were still minors, their parents signed for them with Red Bird Records; Mary was 15, Betty was 17, and the Ganser twins were 16. That same year, they had their first hit, "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" (US #5, UK #14), after being hired by the producer George "Shadow" Morton. Their songs for Morton featured lavish production with heavy orchestration and sound effects; their biggest hit, the renowned death disc "Leader of the Pack" (US #1, UK #11), climaxes with the sounds of roaring motorcycles and breaking glass. UK reissues of the single peaked at #3 in 1972 and at #7 in 1976.

The band continued to chart with a run of fairly successful US hit records, specialising in adolescent themes such as alienation, loneliness, abandonment and death. Now-classic recordings include "Give Him a Great Big Kiss", "Out in the Streets", "Give Us Your Blessings", "I Can Never Go Home Anymore", "Long Live Our Love", "He Cried" and "Past, Present and Future". The B-sides "The Train from Kansas City", "Dressed in Black", "Paradise" and "I'll Never Learn" rank as four of pop's more distinctive flipsides.

Two of the Shangri-Las' three 1966 releases on Red Bird failed to crack the top 50. That same year the band left Red Bird and Morton after the label folded. At the beginning of 1967, Marge decided to leave the group. Despite signing to Mercury Records that year, the group had no further hits. In 1968, they disbanded.

Mary Ann died in 1970, though some websites claim 1971. Accounts vary as to the cause: Some say it was a drug overdose [1], others say it was a seizure [2], still others say it was encephalitis [3]. Marge succumbed to breast cancer on July 28, 1996 at age 48.

The Shangri-Las' 1966 spoken-word cult hit "Past, Present and Future" — with music from Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata — was effectively covered in 2004 by ex ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog on her 2004 album, "My Colouring Book". Along with the tragic ten-hanky drama "I Can Never Go Home Anymore", the Shangri-Las' original 1966 single occasionally appears in music critics' all-time-favourites lists.

Since the 1980s the group has had to deal with a trio calling themselves the Shangri Las, who have nothing to do with the original group. The tribute act was put together by Dick Fox. As for the original group, they performed for the last time at a reunion show hosted by Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow) in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 3, 1989.

In March 2006 Norton Records announced that Mary Weiss would be recording a solo album, due for release in late 2006.

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Discography
Standard albums

1964: Leader of the Pack (US #109)
1965: Shangri-Las-65!
Compilations

1966: Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las
1975: The Shangri-Las Sing
1996: The Best of the Shangri-Las
Singles

1964: "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" (US #5, UK #14)
1964: "Leader of the Pack" (US #1, UK #11)
1965: "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" (US #18)
1965: "Maybe" (US #91)
1965: "Out in the Streets" (US #53)
1965: "Give Us Your Blessings" (US #29)
1965: "Right Now and Not Later" (US #99)
1965: "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" (US #6)
1966: "Long Live Our Love" (US #33)
1966: "He Cried" (US #65)
1966: "Past, Present and Future" (US #59)
1967: "The Sweet Sounds of Summer" (US #123)
1967: "Take the Time"
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References
"Shangri-Las 77!", footnote 4, by Phil X Milstein, Spectropop
Out In The Streets, The Story of The Shangri-Las, an extensive article by John J. Grecco

Answer 10

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