The Searchers Sounds Like Searchers & meet the Searchers 2 on 1 MFSL Gold CD NEU OVP Sealed mit J-Card

Erscheinungsdatum: 1. April 1997
Label: Mfsl
Format: Audio CD (CD-Anzahl: 1)

         Tracks
1. Sweets For My Sweet (2:31) 
2. Alright (2:12) 
3. Love Potion #9 (2:07) 
4. Farmer John (2:01) 
5. Stand By Me (3:31) 
6. Money (2:48) 
7. Da Doo Ron Ron (2:26) 
8. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya (2:06) 
9. Since You Broke My Heart (2:52) 
10. Tricky Dicky (2:09) 
11. Where Have All The Flowers Gone (3:00) 
12. Twist And Shout (2:47) 
13. Eveybody Come And Clap Your Hands (2:41) 
14. If I Could Find Someone (2:13) 
15. Magic Potion (2:36) 
16. I Don't Want To Go On Without You (3:02) 
17. Bumble Bee (2:16) 
18. Something You Got Baby (2:41) 
19. Let The Good Times Roll (1:50) 
20. A Tear Fell (3:02) 
21. Till You Say You'll Be Mine (2:20) 
22. You Wanna Make Her Happy (2:14) 
23. Everything You Do (1:39) 
24. Goodnight Baby (2:16)


Review by Bruce Eder
The Searchers' debut LP doesn't sound quite like any other album they ever issued. All of their Pye Records albums were rushed, but not like this — faced with an extraordinarily popular hit right out of the box in the guise of "Sweets for My Sweet" (which rose to Number One on the U.K. charts), the group cut 11 more finished tracks in one day, drawn from the best part of their stage act. The music was as raw and basic a Liverpool sound as anything heard this side of the Beatles' debut album, Please Please Me (also recorded in one day), which this record paralleled, not only in sound but one key song selection, closing with "Twist and Shout" (albeit not in as striking fashion as John Lennon's raw performance). The attributes that the Searchers would build on, spirited playing, good harmony singing behind smooth lead vocals, and crisply defined lead and rhythm guitars, are all present in as stripped-down a form as they would ever be heard. The range of material reflects the personal tastes of the members, mostly early Motown ("Money (That's What I Want)" and other American R&B ("Farmer John," "Stand By Me"), and even one recent American folk hit, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," which may well have marked the first time a band with electric guitars, bass, and drums had applied those instruments to a folk song, thus anticipating folk-rock by some two years. The tendency is to dismiss this record as an early effort by a group that quickly went on to do much more interesting work; in point of fact, along with the Beatles' debut album, Meet the Searchers is just about the best single document that one can find of what rock & roll in Liverpool was about, and it's played with so much spirit that one suspects it might've done well as a reissue during the late-'70s "power pop" boom.

Review by Richie Unterberger
While the Searchers' fourth album was a pleasant enough collection of diverse and thoughtfully arranged pop/rock, by their own standards it was below average. In addition, within the context of early 1965 British rock, they were already falling off the pace with their over-reliance on cover material, which dominates the set. The covers here were not among their most memorable ones, either, with their fine version of LaVerne Baker's "Bumble Bee" (their final American Top 40 hit) the only hit likely to be familiar to the average rock fan. As usual, it's their renditions of somewhat obscure contemporary songs by major American songwriters that stand out, including "Goodnight Baby" (written largely by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich), "Till You Say You'll Be Mine" (Jackie DeShannon), and "Magic Potion" (Burt Bacharach & Hal David). The straight rock/R&B covers ("Something You Got Baby" and "Let the Good Times Roll") are far more mundane, and the move into straight country ("A Tear Fell") is unmemorable.

 

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