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German, French + Rare Recordings is the German compilation album by English rock band The Searchers. [1] [2] The collection includes their hits as " Needles and Pins ", " Don't Throw Your Love Away " or " When You Walk In The Room " sung in German and French and is a complete catalogue of their singles and rarities issued on Liberty Records in ...
BBC Sessions is a 2004 compilation double album featuring performances by English band The Searchers. All songs were originally broadcast on various BBC Light Programme radio shows from 1964 to 1967.
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Origins
Founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender, the band took their name from the 1956 John Ford western film The Searchers. The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally in 1957, with his friends Ron Woodbridge (born 1938 in Liverpool; lead vocals), Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (born 1938 in Liverpool, died 11 November 2010 in Hightown, Merseyside; bass). When the other two members lost interest, McNally was joined by his guitarist nei...
1960s and 1970s
McGarry was forced to quit the band when he was put on the nightshift at the bakery where he worked and in 1960 his place was taken by Chris Crummey (26 August 1941 – 28 February 2005), who later changed his name to Chris Curtis. Billy Beck, who changed his name to Johnny Sandon, became the lead singer. The band had regular bookings at Liverpool's Iron Door Clubas "Johnny Sandon and The Searchers". Sandon left the band in late 1961 to join The Remo Four in February 1962. The group settled int...
1980s – present
In 1981, the band signed to PRT Records (formerly Pye, their original label) and began recording an album. But only one single, "I Don't Want To Be The One" backed with "Hollywood", ended up being released. They promoted this with a UK Television appearance on "The Leo Sayer Show", which was rare for them by then, but the single got little if any radio airplay (like their Sire singles) and was not stocked by most record shops. The rest of the tracks, except one, would be included as part of 1...
The Searchers have a core catalogue consisting of nine studio albums. Studio Albums 1. 1963 – Meet The Searchers 2. 1963 – Sugar and Spice 3. 1964 – It's the Searchers 4. 1965 – Sounds Like Searchers 5. 1965 – Take Me for What I'm Worth 6. 1972 – Second Take 7. 1979 – Searchers 8. 1981 – Play for Today 9. 1988 – Hungry Hearts
Frank Allen (2009). "The Searchers and Me". Thesearchersandme.com. Retrieved 11 October 2011.McCormack, Peter. "The Searchers History", Needles & Pins (2005). Retrieved 18 June 2005Fabgear, "Tommy Quickly & The Remo Four", The British Beat BoomThe Searchers discography at DiscogsThe Searchers discography. In their native Great Britain, between 1963 and 2019, the English rock band The Searchers released 8 studio albums, 9 extended plays (EPs) and 30 singles. [1] However, the band's international discography is complicated, due to different versions of their albums sometimes being released in other countries ...
Richie Unterberger Welcome to the website of Richie Unterberger, author of books on music history and travel, and reviewer of too many albums to count for various books, publications, and databases. Whether you've found my address in my latest books, arrived here via a link from another site, or just typed in my name for the heck of it hoping to find me on the Internet, I'm glad you're ...
by Richie Unterberger. Perhaps the best studio album by a band that is really best represented by greatest-hit collections. This 1964 LP includes the classic hits "Needles and Pins" and "Don't Throw Your Love Away."
All of the non-Beatles hitmakers are here: the Searchers, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Mojos, the Merseybeats, the Merseys, the Fourmost, and Cilla Black. So are the names known who didn’t quite make it big, even if they’re known to many: the Big Three, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Jackie Lomax ...
