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Meet The Searchers is the 1963 debut and most successful album by British rock band The Searchers.The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which was a UK No.1 for the band, as well as their version of the Clovers "Love Potion No.9", which was released as a single in the U.S. (but not in the UK) the following year.
The Searchers are an English Merseybeat group who flourished during the British Invasion of the 1960s. [1] [2] The band's hits include a remake of the Drifters' 1961 hit, "Sweets for My Sweet"; "Sugar and Spice" (written by their producer Tony Hatch); remakes of Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room"; a cover of the Orlons' "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; and a ...
B: Meet The Searchers: Meet The Searchers "Don't Throw Your Love Away" (originally recorded by The Orlons) "I Pretend I'm with You" 1 16 14 3 – 3 37 – 1 24 A: It's The Searchers B: Non-album track This Is Us "Someday We're Gonna Love Again" (originally recorded by Barbara Lewis) "No One Else Could Love Me" 11 34 48 19 ...
The Searchers (McNally at right) in 1965. Their first single, a cover of The Drifters 1961 song "Sweets for My Sweet", went to number one. [3] Their debut album, Meet The Searchers, was released in August 1963. The album primarily consisted of covers.
The Searchers 30th Anniversary Collection 1962–1992 is a compilation album of songs by the English rock band The Searchers released by Sequel Records. This collection including all of their A-sides released on Pye Records , nearly all B-sides and many of their album tracks. [ 1 ]
In August 1963, the Searchers featured "Farmer John" on their debut album Meet the Searchers. The album peaked at number two on the UK Album Charts. [31] Danish rock band the Defenders issued the song on their debut single on Sonet Records, in 1964. [32] The Invictas' version of "Farmer John" was released on their album A-Go-Go, in 1965. [33]
"Needles and Pins" is a rock song credited to American writers Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono. Jackie DeShannon recorded it in 1963 and other versions followed. The most successful ones were by the Searchers, whose version reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart in 1964, and Smokie, who had a worldwide hit in 1977.
[2] [5] He was the drummer for The Searchers from 1960 to April 1966. After leaving the Searchers, Curtis recorded one solo song, a cover version of the Walker Brothers's "(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me". [6] In 1967, Curtis contacted Tony Edwards about a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout.