Meet The Searchers

Meet the Searchers
Studio album by The Searchers
Released August 1963
Recorded 1963
Genre Rock/Pop, Merseybeat
Length 30:06 (1963 LP)
38:32 (2001 CD Reissue)
Label Pye
Producer Tony Hatch
The Searchers chronology
Meet the Searchers
(1963)		 Sugar and Spice
(1963)
Singles from Meet the Searchers
  1. "Sweets for My Sweet"
    Released: June 1963
  2. "Love Potion No. 9"
    Released: 1964 (USA)

Meet the Searchers is a 1963 album by English rock band, The Searchers. The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of The Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", as well as their version of The Clovers "Love Potion No. 9", released as a single the following year. It peaked on the US charts at # 22 on December 19, 1964.[1]

Personnel

Track listing

Side 1
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Sweets for My Sweet"   Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman 2:28
2. "Alright"   Ross/Vanador 2:09
3. "Love Potion No. 9"   Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller 2:05
4. "Farmer John"   Harris/Terry 1:59
5. "Stand By Me"   King/Leiber/Stoller 3:28
6. "Money (That's What I Want)"   Bradford/Gordy 2:47
Side 2
No. Title Writer(s) Length
7. "Da Doo Ron Ron"   Phil Spector/Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich 2:25
8. "Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya"   Smith 2:05
9. "Since You Broke My Heart"   Don Everly/Phil Everly 2:50
10. "Tricky Dicky"   Leiber/Stoller 2:08
11. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"   Pete Seeger 2:57
12. "Twist and Shout"   Medley/Russell 2:45
2001 Reissue Bonus Tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
13. "It's All Been a Dream"   Curtis 1:49
14. "Geld (Das Ist, Was Ich Wünsche) ("Money (That's What I Want)" in German)"   Bradford/Gordy (Translator unknown) 2:46
15. "Landwirt John ("Farmer John" in German)"   Harris/Terry (Translator unknown) 2:00
16. "Mais C'Était Un Rêve ("It's All Been A Dream" in French)"   Curtis (Translator unknown) 1:51

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Revised and Enlarged, Billboard Books, New York, 1992
The Searchers
John McNally · Frank Allen · Spencer James · Scott Ottaway
Tony Jackson · Mike Pender · Chris Curtis · Billy Adamson · John Blunt · Eddie Rothe
Studio albums
Meet The Searchers · Sugar and Spice · It's The Searchers  · Sounds Like Searchers · Take Me for What I'm Worth · Hungry Hearts
Singles
"Sweets for My Sweet" · "Sugar and Spice" · "Sweet Nothin's" · "Needles and Pins" · "Don't Throw Your Love Away" · "Someday We're Gonna Love Again" · "When You Walk in the Room" · "Love Potion No. 9" · "What Have They Done to the Rain" · "Goodbye My Love" · "He's Got No Love" · "When I Get Home" · "Take Me for What I'm Worth" · "Take It Or Leave It" · "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" · "Popcorn, Double Feature" · "Western Union" · "Second Hand Dealer" · "Umbrella Man" · "Kinky Kathy Abernathy" · "Desdemona" · "Love Is Everywhere" · "Sing Singer Sing" · "Needles and Pins" · "Vahevala" · "Solitaire" · "I Don't Want To Be The One" · "Hearts In Her Eyes" · "It's Too Late" · "Love's Melody"  · "Another Night"
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