Kon-Tiki - The Shadows - Cover by Old Guitar Monkey
"Kon-Tiki" is an instrumental tune by The Shadows. It became a number-one charting single in the United Kingdom in October 1961, when I was a very impressionable sixteen year old, playing a part in me becoming a Shadows fan.
Kon-Tiki was also the name of the balsa wood raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
Here is my version of The Shadows tune using a backing track from "Shadback Backing Traks 1". I hope you like it. Dave