The EP was released as a 7-inch vinyl record in mono with the catalogue number Columbia SEG 8094.

[1] The Shadows to the Fore was the UK number-one EP for 28 weeks, having three separate stints at the top of the chart from June 1961 until May 1962.

The Shadows were the first British band (ahead of the Beatles) to write some of their own material for singles and by 1961 some album tracks and again in 1962.

By early 1961 The Shadows set up their own music publishing company at no 17 Savile Row in Central London and then followed a string of other booklets containing several song/instrumentals numbering nos 1 to 8 until their Marvin Welch & Farrar career break in 1970.

[3] In the UK, all tracks featured on the compilation LP The Shadows' Greatest Hits released on the Columbia label in 1963.